The independent theatre industry is buzzing with excitement at the promise of a new theatre set to fill the gap left by the much loved Alexander Bar & Theatre: THE ANTIQUE THEARE & BAR, situated at the top of Kloof Street, will open its welcoming doors on 23 July 2026!

The story focusses on the love connection of two people you may not likely set up on a blind date: Marianne, a physicist, and Roland, a beekeeper… the perfect match according to Mwenya Kabwe.

William Young is truly excited for audience to experience this Cape Town Opera presented staging of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC at Theatre on the Bay.

"After darkness comes light" - to quote the ever-optimistic poet Guillaume Apollinaire, and in this spirit Cape Town City Ballet are about to present one of the brightest ballets in their repertoire as a luminous ORPHEUS IN THE UNDERWORLD succeeds David Nixon's darkly intriguing DRACULA.

A king under siege, a city on the edge, a coterie of scheming, self-interested, cynical courtiers: in THE KILLING OF A UNION LEADER, playwright and director Louis Viljoen has produced a political thriller of Elizabethan proportions.

Cape Town Opera's 2026 production of CARMEN is set to ignite the stage at Artscape with Hispanic fire under the baton of distinguished Briti

The traditionally gender-fluid Narrator, played by Natasha Sutherland, is cast as decidedly female in this fresh take on the cult musical.

Michael Mitchell is pleased to note that "everything in this new THE NUTCRACKER is painted in accordance with long established techniques.

This Maynardville staging of TWELFTH NIGHT, “not just a trope-based comedy”, is set to evoke the dolce vita of vita of 1960s Italy.

"It's a story of redemption and forgiveness which drives the spirit of Christmas and deserves to be told clearly and cleanly," says Chrissie Cartwright.

Isabella Blair, a leading artist with the Cape Town City Ballet, finds each début role a welcome opportunity. "A new role is daunting at first, but it improves with familiarity," is how she sums it up. See her next as Alice/The White Queen in ALICE IN WONDERLAND.

ALICE IN WONDERLAND is an all-new work to be added to the repertoire in December this year, and there is more to justify this choice for the festive season than one might think.

Intensity is what draws Emily Child & Nicholas Pauling back to Louis Viljoen’s world again and again.

In the current iteration of David Kramer's musical ORPHEUS McADOO, triple threat Shangaze plays Ernest Logan, a minstrel singer/musician.

Maina Gielgud is currently bringing her wealth of experience to bear on the talents of CBA ahead of the company’s staging of GISELLE.

THE GLASS MENAGERIE being a kind of dream-like memory of the narrator blurring the lines between truth and subjective recollection, is the ideal play for a personal exploration and adaptation shares Nico Scheepers.

Cool elegance and polished execution are hallmarks of Cape Town City Ballet's soloist Hannah Ward, and she is ready for SWAN LAKE.

Willowy Mia Coomber, one of Cape Ballet Africa's leading ballerinas, achieved what for many an aspiring young dancer is the stuff of dreams.

On the immediate horizon is Lonwabo Mose's role in May this year in CTO's vibrant staging of AIDA, in which he is cast as the malevolent High Priest Ramfis.

"The idea of getting the chance to spit out the words that Louis Viljoen has written is too good to pass on; it's all overwhelmingly exciting, and it doesn’t get better than that. I still pinch myself at the wild, beautiful ride of it all. I’m a lucky lady." - Jenny Stead, MRS. MITCHELL COMES TO TOWN.