
Music Review: Josh Groban: Stages – Live: High Standards, Or Musicals Spectacularly Staged
By BRUCE DENNILL Josh Groban: Stages – Live Albums of standards tend to be, well, standard. Songs that are loved by millions are also heard by millions, thus exponentially expanding the pool of potential “this version isn’t as…

Interview: Josh Groban – Show (And Tell) Tunes, Or Getting Better In Stages
By BRUCE DENNILL Other than a cup of what is presumably coffee, Josh Groban makes no concessions to fatigue after a full day’s travel from Los Angeles, via Heathrow, to Johannesburg. His chatty, friendly stage persona is shown to…

Seen And Heard: The Best Of 2015
By BRUCE DENNILL The below music, literature, film, TV and theatre may not have been created or originally released during 2015, but it was only at some point during this year that I was able to see it, hear…

Theatre Review: I’m Playing Your Song – Nobody Does It Better, Or Meet Marvin The Mensch
By BRUCE DENNILL I’m Playing Your Song: The Marvin Hamlisch Story / Directed by Alan Swerdlow / Pieter Torien’s Montecasino Theatre, Fourways, Johannesburg There’s a regular conversation about South African theatre that focuses on the…