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Theatre Review: Next!!! – Casting The Net, Or Singing Through The Screening

Theatre Review: Next!!! – Casting The Net, Or Singing Through The Screening

Dec 10, 2023 | chART

  By BRUCE DENNILL   Next!!! / Directed by Amanda Bothma / Kippies, Market Theatre, Newtown, Johannesburg   Auditioning is a scary, exhausting, confusing, thrilling and occasionally triumphant experience, during which performers spend a lot of time...
Theatre Review: The Dress Code – A Fabric Of Feeling, Or Dress Up And Deliver

Theatre Review: The Dress Code – A Fabric Of Feeling, Or Dress Up And Deliver

May 13, 2023 | chART

  By BRUCE DENNILL   The Dress Code / Directed by Alan Swerdlow / Theatre On The Square, Sandton, Johannesburg   In a show put together as commentary on the impact – on our confidence, behaviour and social interactions – of the clothes we wear, it is...
Theatre Review: Locked Upside Down…And Inside Out!, Or Pandemic Playfulness Progression

Theatre Review: Locked Upside Down…And Inside Out!, Or Pandemic Playfulness Progression

Jun 26, 2022 | chART

By BRUCE DENNILL Locked Upside Down…And Inside Out! / Directed by Alan Swerdlow / Theatre On The Square, Sandton, Johannesburg   Following a revue-style show conceptualised and performed during Covid comes a revue-style show performed as the pandemic – please God...
Theatre Interview: Locked Upside Down – Hitting The Mother Load, Or Stages Of Friendship

Theatre Interview: Locked Upside Down – Hitting The Mother Load, Or Stages Of Friendship

Feb 4, 2022 | ARTicle

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] By BRUCE DENNILL Locked Upside Down is a new, original musical revue, running from 9-26 February 2022 at Theatre On The Square. The production was conceived by and stars Sharon Spiegel-Wagner, Lorri Strauss...
Theatre Review: Broadway On Melle – Scholars Of Song, Or Concordant Class

Theatre Review: Broadway On Melle – Scholars Of Song, Or Concordant Class

Sep 21, 2021 | chART

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] By BRUCE DENNILL Broadway On Melle / Directed by Tshepo Ncokoane and Yamikani Mahaka-Phiri / The Dome@NSA, National School of the Arts, Braamfontein   COVID-19 has been brutal for established artists,...

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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.