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All the world’s a stage: Anelisa Phewa and Lebohang Motaung in J Bobs Tshabalala’s ‘Khongolose Khommanding Khommissars’. Photos: Lungelo Mbulwana

Playing with local languages

Shakespeare is a dirty word …

Shannon Glover and Revil Yon in Romeo and Juliet.

Joburg Ballet presents ‘Romeo and Juliet’

After a seven-year absence the company is staging the highly acclaimed ballet with principal dancer Shannon Glover as lead

As we like it: Awethu Hleli is one of the performers in the Market Theatre’s Chilling with the Bard: A Shakespeare Season. (Brett Rubin)

Women take centre stage in the Market Theatre’s Shakespeare season

The Market Theatre’s virtual offering, ‘Chilling with the Bard: A Shakespeare Season’, includes women performing traditionally male roles

Influential: The 500-page tribute to Kenyan academic Ali Al’amin Mazrui reflects the heritage he left for Africa

Discover the roots of an African luminary

A Giant Tree Has Fallen combines essays on and by Ali Mazrui as well as tributes from admirers, critics, family members and journalists

Get cooking: Lorna Maseko and friends at Maropeng

How Shakespeare fits our time

The bard has been dead for 400 years, yet he speaks from the grave as clearly and wisely as ever.

Get cooking: Lorna Maseko and friends at Maropeng

Refugees get a boost from Shakespeare’s Hamlet

People holed up in a grim Calais camp could no doubt identify with the tortured Danish prince during a performance by actors from Shakespeare’s Globe.

Bailey brings signature sardonic humour to Verdi’s ‘Macbeth’

Stretching the translations to its limit, Brett Bailey removes the frills of Verdi’s opera without taking from its beauty.

Mike Tyson with his wife Kiki.
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Mike Tyson takes a shot at playing Othello

Former heavyweight champion has set his sights on Shakespeare after wrapping up his one-man stage show called "Undisputed Truth".