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Emotional texture: Zilungile Mbombo, Mfuneli Ntumbuka and Alex
Sono. The script is sharp, witty and moving. Photos: Fiona MacPherson

‘Rise ’76’ confronts a generation haunted by how little it has done with its inherited freedom

A powerful and emotionally layered theatrical work revisits the 1976 Soweto Uprising through testimony, memory, contradiction and unresolved generational grief

Deconstructed ballet: Hatched Ensemble speaks to anyone who has felt conflicted about their own identity
and where they belong in the status quo. Photo: Val Adamson

Mamela Nyamza’s global triumph, ‘Hatched Ensemble’, comes home for two nights only

Internationally celebrated dancer Mamela Nyamza returns home with two powerful productions interrogating identity, colonial legacies and belonging through bold, deconstructed…

A visually arresting, multidisciplinary spectacle challenges both narrative clarity and audience comfort, raising questions about how theatre must evolve for modern spectators

‘mAnJE! MaNJe (an epic)’ demands prompt attention at The Baxter

A visually arresting, multidisciplinary spectacle challenges both narrative clarity and audience comfort, raising questions about how theatre must evolve for modern spectators

Dance is music: Lighting by Oliver Hauser and set design by Willy Cesar foreground space, line and form.
Everything, Maqoma says, is architectural. Photo: Arthur Dlamini

Gregory Maqoma’s ‘Genesis’ is not an ending

The renowned choreographer returns to the Baxter not as performer but architect, with Genesis, a daring meditation on beginnings, endings and Black consciousness

Behind the soundscape: Charl-Johan Lingenfelder, above, behind the scenes of Moffie, for which he  created soundscape.  Photos: Daniel Rutland Manners

Moffie: The goosebumps are real

Charl-Johan Lingenfelder transforms theatre through sound, turning noise into emotion in his latest work Moffie

In from the cold: A scene from Bitter Winter, Paul Slabolepszy’s new play, which is on at the Baxter in Cape Town. Photos: RegardsVisser

Bitter Winter: the show will go on but what of the people in it?

An old actor, a young upstart, and a kettle on the fritz — Bitter Winter turns the ordinary into something unforgettable

Actor Tony Miyambo

Kafka’s Ape is brave, gripping, important theatre

In a one-man show that has been touring the world for years, a larger-than-life actor offers theatre at its pure, raw, fearless best

Louise Coetzer’s work autoplay — Africa’s first AI opera — explores the intersection between human creativity and machine learning and where it could lead, with a soundscape featuring Inge Beckmann.

Dancing with the machine: autoplay and the future of AI-driven art

Louise Coetzer flirted with the enemy to create experimental dance-opera autoplay. But her message is one of resistance

A new play highlights the reality of living with albinism, poverty, and prejudice in South Africa

After years of nurturing, mentorship, and collaboration between legends of South African theatre and two young actors, the Baxter Theatre brings Imbilini… My Friend! to matinee…

Dancers performing in front of the National Arts Council in Johannesburg in solidarity with artists who participated in a two-month sit-in at the NAC. (Alet Pretorius/ Gallo Images)

Half of the National Arts Council’s PESP funding has gone to a connected 12%

Roadies’ report shows members had first dibs on the National Arts Council’s money

Jaedon Daniel and Page collaborate in a virtual show combining poetry and music

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From the virtual Fak’ugesi African Digital Innovation Festival to live theatre back on stage at the Baxter in Cape Town, we’ve got you covered