Spark in the Dark Productions has announced the return of The Spark Hub, its flagship programme dedicated to getting South Africa's emerging theatre and comedy artists onto the national stage at the ...

A new era for the Cape Town theatre awards has been announced, alongside the nominees for the 61st Awards. Building the scaffolding which has supported a 60-yearlong institution is no mean feat. In ...

Discover the vibrant world of South African theatre with 'BLING!', 'Heal The World' and 'Sarafina!' - three productions that ...

The South African government’s delayed release of the 2025/26 first and second-quarter crime statistics has triggered a wave of public outcry, with opposition parties and civil society organisations ...

Paramount Theatre’s lush revival of “South Pacific” reflects what has always been so rewarding and so unsettling about the enduring 1949 musical by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. Rodgers’ ...

Nigeria will host Africa’s first-ever joint global festival for Improvisational Theatre and Playback Theatre practitioners as Abuja welcomes performers, educators, humanitarian workers, and ...

(Johannesburg) – Vigilantes in South Africa have carried out violent xenophobic attacks targeting African and Asian foreign nationals in recent weeks, with little or insufficient apparent response ...

TheatreMania Africa, a leading proponent of arts development, theatre and culture has announced a collaboration with Corona Secondary School, Agbara, for the Generation Next Theatre (GNT) Initiative.

Rodgers and Hammerstein’s 1949 golden age masterpiece “South Pacific” sits beautifully inside Aurora’s historic Paramount Theatre, built in 1931 and with a vaguely Venetian but thoroughly escapist ...

The Trump administration argues that an “emergency refugee situation” in South Africa merits bringing more Afrikaners to America, at a cost of some $100 million. By Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Hamed ...

In South Africa, a nonprofit organization is rebooting a popular soap opera that once dramatized and educated viewers about HIV and AIDS. It's only part of their feminist mission.

LEWISTON, Maine — On a recent weekday afternoon, a 41-year-old single mother from South Africa who had arrived in the United States this spring as a refugee pulled into a coffee shop in central Maine.