Mar 18, 2025 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL Dear Evan Hansen / Directed by Greg Karvellas / Teatro, Montecasino, Fourways, Johannesburg Dear Evan Hansen is a compact, intimate story – a teenage boy struggles with loneliness and depression and gets caught up in events that...
Aug 6, 2023 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL Saturday Night At The Palace / Directed by Albert Maritz / Lesedi, Joburg Theatre, Braamfontein, Johannesburg There’s a psychologist’s aphorism that says “hurt people hurt people”. The truth behind that saying is evident...
Dec 15, 2021 | ARTicle
[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] By BRUCE DENNILL A Christmas Carol is Charles Dickens’ 1843 Christmas classic – it’s now played around the world for nearly 180 years! Many of its themes still resonate with modern society, making...
Mar 20, 2021 | chART
[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] By BRUCE DENNILL Pass Over / Directed by James Ngcobo / John Kani Theatre, Market Theatre, Newtown, Johannesburg The themes in this three-hander by American playwright Antionette Nwandu are as sadly...
Mar 14, 2021 | ARTicle
By BRUCE DENNILL Pass Over at The Market Theatre is written by Antionette Nwandu and directed by James Ngcobo by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French Inc. The play explores the unquestionable human spirit of young black men who dream about a...
