By BRUCE DENNILL Mamma Mia / Directed by Janice Honeyman / Teatro, Montecasino, Fourways It doesn’t matter what your personal feeling is about the ABBA-driven stage show Mamma Mia (and it does tend to be one of the more polarising major musicals):...
By BRUCE DENNILL The Sound Of Music / Directed by Steven Stead / Teatro, Montecasino, Fourways, Johannesburg It’s a 65-year-old musical with a story set in 1938, and one that’s been staged repeatedly in South Africa, largely because audiences keep...
By BRUCE DENNILL Joburg Ballet: The Nutcracker / Choreographed and produced by Angela Malan / Teatro, Montecasino, Fourways, Johannesburg The Nutcracker can be a mildly polarising ballet in that it’s likely the classical piece that audiences have...
Actress runs in the Studio Theatre at Pieter Toerien’s Montecasino Theatre in Fourways until 8 October, It is written by Talia Kodesh and Bruce Dennill with music and lyrics by Bruce Dennill, directed by Daniel Geddes and produced by Collett Dawson. It stars...
By BRUCE DENNILL Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story / Directed by Nick Winston / Teatro, Montecasino, Fourways Buddy is not the biggest musical in the world – after all, its hero died aged only 22 (if that’s a spoiler, this may not be the show for you),...