Dec 8, 2025 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL Cape Ballet Africa: The Nutcracker / Artistic Director: Debbie Turner / Teatro, Montecasino, Fourways One of the top three or four best-known ballets in the classical canon, The Nutcracker is, if not quite, to steal the sports...
Nov 24, 2025 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL Far Gone / Directed by Mojisola Kareem / Lesedi, Joburg Theatre, Braamfontein, Johannesburg Initially, Far Gone feels like a late-night festival piece, with the audience on three sides and the performer – John Rwothomack, a...
Nov 23, 2025 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL The Corrs: Talk On Corners Summer 2025 Tour / SunBet Arena, Time Square, Pretoria What is immediately evident just a handful of songs into the Corrs’ Pretoria set is that, although it’s been a while since the Irish band made any...
Nov 21, 2025 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL Wicked: For Good / Directed by Jon M Chu / PG Feeling slightly less like a marketing campaign with a film added late on than the first Wicked movie did, this second act retains much that was good about the initial instalment – the...
Nov 15, 2025 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL Lungs / Directed by Bianca Amato / Studio, Pieter Toerien’s Montecasino Theatre, Fourways, Johannesburg Duncan Macmillan’s text-heavy two-hander has been around a while now – it was first staged in 2011 – but it hasn’t lost a...
Nov 11, 2025 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL Barber Shop Chronicles / Directed by Sibusiso Mamba / John Kani Theatre, Market Theatre, Newtown, Johannesburg Barber shops are generally places of intimacy – physically speaking, in that they are often smallish rooms containing...
