• Follow
  • Follow
  • Follow
  • chART | Reviews
  • ARTicle | Stories
  • ARTiculate | Columns
  • depART | Travel

Interior design

Travel

House Tour

Theatre Review: How To Date Like A F#@$%^ Grownup – Mixed-Up Matches, Or Right For Relationships?

Theatre Review: How To Date Like A F#@$%^ Grownup – Mixed-Up Matches, Or Right For Relationships?

Nov 11, 2024 | chART

  By BRUCE DENNILL   How To Date Like A F#@$%^ Grownup / Directed by Jaco Van Rensburg / Pieter Toerien’s Montecasino Theatre, Fourways, Johannesburg   A new original musical is always a reason to get excited, and with two bright South African talents...
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,...
Theatre Review: Forever Plaid – Pitch Perfect In Purgatory, Or Well Plaid, Sirs

Theatre Review: Forever Plaid – Pitch Perfect In Purgatory, Or Well Plaid, Sirs

Oct 24, 2019 | chART

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] By BRUCE DENNILL   Forever Plaid / Directed by Jaco van Rensburg / Pieter Toerien’s Montecasino Theatre, Fourways, Johannesburg   There is really not much of a narrative arc in this jukebox musical...
Theatre Review: The Color Purple – Purple Patch, Or Bursting Through The Glass Celie

Theatre Review: The Color Purple – Purple Patch, Or Bursting Through The Glass Celie

Feb 5, 2018 | chART

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] By BRUCE DENNILL   The Color Purple / Directed by Janice Honeyman / Mandela, Joburg Theatre, Braamfontein, Johannesburg          8.5   The Color Purple is, on paper, hardly the stuff of a fun night...

Trending Posts

  • Theatre Review: Lungs – Breathless And Brittle, Or Edgy Engagement
    November 15, 2025
  • Theatre Review: Barber Shop Chronicles – Sharp Observations, Or Fades And Feelings
    November 11, 2025
  • Music Review: The Corrs Talk On Corners Tour – Irish Ayes, Or Corr Memories
    November 23, 2025
  • Theatre Review: So Long Marianne – Ragged Glory, Or Blonde Tribulation
    November 10, 2025
  • Dance Interview: Gabriel Ravenscroft – The Nutcracker, Or Taking The High-Line
    November 24, 2025
  • Film Review: Wicked: For Good – For Better, Or A Lovely Two-Do
    November 21, 2025

© pARTicipate. All rights reserved   |   E-mail Bruce: participatecomment@gmail.com
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.