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Theatre Review: Cats – Plenty In The Kitty, Or Quality, Fur Real

Theatre Review: Cats – Plenty In The Kitty, Or Quality, Fur Real

Feb 6, 2026 | chART

  By BRUCE DENNILL   Cats / Resident director: Duane Alexander / Teatro, Montecasino, Fourways, Johannesburg   TS Eliot wrote Old Possum’s Book Of Practical Cats in the 1930s, presumably for a lark, and the decision to use the collection’s fluffy poems...
Ballet Review: The Nutcracker – Growing Glamour, Or Sweets Dreams

Ballet Review: The Nutcracker – Growing Glamour, Or Sweets Dreams

Dec 8, 2025 | chART

  By BRUCE DENNILL   Cape Ballet Africa: The Nutcracker / Artistic Director: Debbie Turner / Teatro, Montecasino, Fourways   One of the top three or four best-known ballets in the classical canon, The Nutcracker is, if not quite, to steal the sports...
Music Review: Swingin’ Las Vegas 2025 – Gold Standards, Or Happily On The Band Wagon

Music Review: Swingin’ Las Vegas 2025 – Gold Standards, Or Happily On The Band Wagon

May 26, 2025 | chART

  By BRUCE DENNILL   Swingin’ Las Vegas 2025 / Conducted by Adam Howard / Teatro, Montecasino, Fourways   It’s often the case that top-class music, theatre and/or entertainment involves technical excellence, committed performers, well-written or curated...
Theatre Review: Dear Evan Hansen – Fanciful Fondness, Or The Lie Is Cast

Theatre Review: Dear Evan Hansen – Fanciful Fondness, Or The Lie Is Cast

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...
Theatre Review: My Fair Lady – Strong(er) Language, Or Abso-bloomin’-lutely Loverly

Theatre Review: My Fair Lady – Strong(er) Language, Or Abso-bloomin’-lutely Loverly

Jan 27, 2025 | chART

  By BRUCE DENNILL   My Fair Lady / Directed by Steven Stead / Teatro, Montecasino, Fourways   One of the challenging aspects of reviving a hugely well-known piece is that the comparison of the new version to all the ones that have come before is...
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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.