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Music Review: African Pulse – Celebrating The Ndlovu Youth Choir, Or A Consummate Crescendo

Music Review: African Pulse – Celebrating The Ndlovu Youth Choir, Or A Consummate Crescendo

May 5, 2021 | chART

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] By BRUCE DENNILL African Pulse: Celebrating The Ndlovu Youth Choir / Directed by Matthew Counihan / Teatro, Montecasino, Fourways, Johannesburg   During one of the earlier reductions in the strictness of...
Theatre Review: Seussical – Cats And Creativity, Or For Who The Horton Rolls

Theatre Review: Seussical – Cats And Creativity, Or For Who The Horton Rolls

Dec 29, 2019 | chART

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] By BRUCE DENNILL   Seussical / Directed by Matthew Counihan / Lyric Theatre, Gold Reef City Casino, Ormonde, Johannesburg   This production is a relatively stripped-down, one-act version of the...
Theatre Review: All You Ask Of Me – Once More While Seething, Or What A Tangled Lloyd Webber We Weave

Theatre Review: All You Ask Of Me – Once More While Seething, Or What A Tangled Lloyd Webber We Weave

Dec 3, 2019 | chART

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] By BRUCE DENNILL   All You Ask Of Me / Directed by Matthew Counihan / Auto & General Theatre On The Square, Sandton, Johannesburg   A two-hander – singer, narrator and sarcasm conduit Carly...
Theatre Review: Rock Of Ages – Rock And Droll, Or Of Hair And High Notes

Theatre Review: Rock Of Ages – Rock And Droll, Or Of Hair And High Notes

Oct 7, 2019 | chART

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] By BRUCE DENNILL   Rock Of Ages / Director: Timothy Le Roux / Teatro, Montecasino, Fourways, Johannesburg   Conceptually speaking one of the more straightforward jukebox musicals, Rock Of Ages has a...
Theatre Review: Footloose – Creative Confidence, Or Moving (And Singing) In The Right Direction

Theatre Review: Footloose – Creative Confidence, Or Moving (And Singing) In The Right Direction

May 7, 2018 | chART

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] By BRUCE DENNILL   Footloose / Directed by Matthew Counihan / Redhill School, Sandton, Johannesburg                            7   In a short informal speech just before the premier of Redhill...

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Bruce Dennill is a BASA/National Arts Festival Arts Writing Awards Silvear Award winner (Opinion and Features), a South African Music Awards judge and a recording artist. His first play, the pocket musical Actress,for which he wrote the music and lyrics and co-wrote the script, was the recipient of a Broadway World South Africa Award for Best New Play Or Musical and a Naledi Theatre Award for Best Lead Actress In A Musical (Talia Kodesh).
Find his music on Spotify, iTunes, Youtube and wherever else you stream and download music.