Artsblog
Monday May 20, 2013 |
Cutting edge and innovative theatre directors who have made their mark on the National Arts Festival’s fringe programme are being engaged as mentors to assist Eastern Cape companies that will be at the Festival this year. Director Tara Louise Notcutt and 2012 Standard Bank Young Artist for Theatre, Princess Mhlongo are the first two Creative Consultants who will spend a weeklong ...
Wednesday May 8, 2013 |
After studying in Florence for three years, Jenine has brought back a German clown who can play a harp. Teaming up with writer, Nick Warren, they share a story of magical realism that takes us from the confines of the inner city to the freedom of ...
Friday Feb 1, 2013 |
An elderly man peppering his speech with words such as ‘cool’, ‘ridic’ or ‘obvs’ in order to give the impression he is conversant with the culture of a teenage generation is the image Maynardville’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream conjures ...
Sunday Jul 8, 2012 |
On the last day of fest, just a day or two before I (and I suspect most of us) have to return to selling our dreams in return for lucre and security, I go see Through Blue.I knew it would be melancholy, I knew it ended on that most heartbreaking ...
National Arts Festival News
The Standard Bank Jazz Festival, Grahamstown 2013 incorporates a variety of disciplines into its programme. Blues/Funk/World Music is one of the genres that will be highlighted at the festival this year, though it is just one part of the formidable line-up which includes Mainstream, Afro-Jazz, Modern Jazz, Youth and the Standard Bank Jazz and Blues Café.Vocalist/guitarist Vusi ...
The Standard Bank Jazz Festival, Grahamstown 2013 incorporates a variety of disciplines into their programme. Mainstream is one of the genres that will be highlighted at the festival this year, though it is just one part of the formidable line-up ...
Multiple types of melody make up the Music programme at the 2013 National Arts Festival, Grahamstown.Hailing from Brakpan on the East Rand, 2013 Standard Bank Young Artist for Music, Runette Botha, made her professional début at the Royal ...
The Standard Bank Jazz Festival, Grahamstown 2013 incorporates a variety of disciplines into their programme. The Standard Bank National Youth Jazz Festivaltakes place alongside a diverse programme that features Mainstream, Blues / Funk / World ...
Arts News From Around South Africa
Pieter-Dirk Uys stars as Bambi Kellermann in a new cabaret entitled 50 Shades of Bambi, at the Fugard Theatre in Cape Town, from 6 to 24 August 2013.
The multi-award winning Tygerberg Children's Choir, under the leadership of Hennie and Theresa Loock for the past 40 years, needs new members for 2014.
The Council of the Market Theatre Foundation has announced the appointment of James Sibongeleni Ngcobo as the new Artistic Director for the Market Theatre.
Jazzaholic by Don Albert: Once again The Standard Bank Joy of Jazz will feature an awesome line-up of international and African artists.
