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...
By BRUCE DENNILL The Cry Of Winnie Mandela / Directed by MoMo Matsunyane / Barney Simon Theatre, Market Theatre, Newtown, Johannesburg With the performance under review happening on the night of some of the heaviest rainfall Johannesburg had...
By BRUCE DENNILL It’s time to sweat out the sadness. Spin Cycles at the Baxter Theatre offers a cathartic look into why we search for something deeper when the inconceivable happens to us. After an earth-shattering year, can a journalist spin herself out...
By BRUCE DENNILL The Suit / Directed by J Bobs Tshabalala / Theatre On The Square, Sandton, Johannesburg Can Themba’s original short story is six decades old and the original version of this play was created by Barney Simon and Mothobi Mutloatse...
By BRUCE DENNILL Paul Slabolepszy’s new play Bitter Winter, which pays poignant tribute to South African Theatre, will premier at Pieter Toerien’s Studio Theatre at Montecasino in February. Slabolepszy, the recent recipient of a Naledi Lifetime...
