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1 week ago | 
weekendspecial.co.za | Karen Rutter
ComUnity Festival, a driving force in Cape Town’s vibrant youth scene, returns on 26 April 2025 at The Ostrich. In celebration of Freedom Day (27 April), this 12-hour showcase unites musical talent, cutting-edge fashion, and local cuisine to honour democracy, freedom, and South Africa’s rich culture. The ComUnity Festival makes its debut at The Ostrich this year, transitioning from its longtime home at the Old Biscuit Mill in Woodstock.
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1 week ago | 
weekendspecial.co.za | Karen Rutter
WATCHING THE SKY FALL and FORESTING OVER THE NAKBA. Work by Dale Washkansky. At the AVA Gallery, Cape Town. MEGAN CHORITZ writesI am a bit of a mess. I have just come back from the AVA Gallery in Church Street, where I met up with Dale Washkansky, the artist exhibiting two profound pieces, Foresting Over the Nakba, and Watching the Sky Fall.
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1 week ago | 
weekendspecial.co.za | Karen Rutter
THE ZOO STORY. Written by Edward Albee. Directed by Chris Weare. Performed by Michael Mackenzie and Francois Immelman. Theatre Arts. MEGAN CHORITZ reviewsA man, Peter, sits on a bench in Central Park, reading. Then Jerry comes along, and things get weird. Really weird. Edward Albee’s gripping and disturbing text has not aged or dated.
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2 weeks ago | 
weekendspecial.co.za | Karen Rutter
The Masque One-Act Play Festival 2025 once again proudly presents four new South African plays, which have been developed as part of the Theatre’s Play Reading Programme. This year, the Festival runs from 10 to 12 April 2025, featuring works by writers Charlene Colling, Alex Learmont (top row L to R), and Dawn Garisch and Lauren Bates (bottom row, L to R). “Each script has been through our Play Reading Programme and is ready to be brought to life on stage.
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2 weeks ago | 
weekendspecial.co.za | Karen Rutter
The critically acclaimed Tony award-winning play A Doll’s House, Part 2 by Lucas Hnath, after successful runs on Broadway and at the Donmar Warehouse in London, comes to the Baxter Studio in April 2025, starring Bianca Amato and Zane Meas. Presented by The Quickening Theatre Company, the smart, funny, freshly contemporary response to Ibsen’s classic is directed by Barbara Rubin and runs from 16 April to 10 May 2025, at 8pm, with Saturday matinees at 3pm.
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3 weeks ago | 
weekendspecial.co.za | Karen Rutter
In Secrets of the Penguins, this latest installment in National Geographic’s Emmy-winning “Secrets of” franchise takes viewers to the farthest corners of the world to witness penguin behaviors captured on film for the first time. The series, which features award-winning Nat Geo Explorer Bertie Gregory, showcases the cute and fluffy flightless birds as they brave some of the most extreme environments on earth.
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3 weeks ago | 
weekendspecial.co.za | Karen Rutter
BREATHWORDS: Triple Bill. WHISPERS FROM WITHIN | Choreography by Wubkje Kuindersma. Music: Max Richter’s re-composition of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons. REMANSO | Choreography Nacho Duato. Music: Enrique Granados’ Valses Poéticos. REVERIE | Choreography by Kirsten Isenberg. Music: Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No 2 in C Minor Op 18. Pianist Gerhard Joubert. Cape Philharmonic under Brandon Phillips’ baton. Three performances by Cape Ballet Africa. Artscape Opera.
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3 weeks ago | 
weekendspecial.co.za | Karen Rutter
Empatheatre‘s electrifying and highly acclaimed Isidlamlilo/The Fire Eater, a one-woman show brought to life by Mpume Mthombeni and theatre-maker Neil Coppen, comes to the Baxter Flipside from 9 to 19 April 2025, at 7.30pm with matinees at 2pm. Winner of four Naledi Theatre Awards for Best Production, Best Actor in a solo performance, Best Director and Best Lighting Design, Isidlamlilo/The Fire Eater was also nominated for four more awards.
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1 month ago | 
weekendspecial.co.za | Karen Rutter
Nicholas Chalmers (pictured left) is coming home. Well sort of. Having a South African father, jazz drummer Gerry Chalmers, and a raft of cousins here he visits every two years or so, he is now bringing to Cape Town his National Youth Choir (GB), says PETA STEWART:The 100 voices of the award-winning choir will perform in the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra’s Autumn Symphonies at the City Hall on 10 April 2025.
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1 month ago | 
weekendspecial.co.za | Karen Rutter
The Cape Cultural Collective (CCC) will kick off its 2025 concert series with Rhythms of Freedom featuring the amazing Little Giants (pictured left), the inspirational Rosa Choir, an extract from the powerful Shakespeare to Gaza and two incredible dancers, Darion Adams and Tamsyn Pretorius. The concert will take place on Sunday, 6 April, 2025, at 3pm at the Novalis Ubuntu Institute in Wynberg, Cape Town.
