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With compliments of Joburg Theatre, we are giving away a Double Ticket to The Color Purple, soon to be staged on the Mandela Stage at the Joburg Theatre Complex.  The lucky winner stand a chance to attend the performance on Tuesday, 6 February, at 20:00. The Color Purple, as a musical, was originally produced on Broadway in 2005, by a team of producers, including Oprah Winfrey and received eleven Tony nominations.  Now, this ...

Introducing the Color Purple’s Celie and Shug Avery In August 2016, director Janice Honeyman, executive producer Bernard Jay and musical director Rowan Bakker embarked on a search for the two women who would be chosen to play the lead roles of Celie and Shug Avery in the Tony Award winning musical The Color Purple, to be staged for the first time in South Africa in 2018 ...

Not a serious musical, but seriously entertaining By Louw Mulder   Sometimes, in the hustle and bustle of today’s life, it is just refreshingly entertaining to sit back, relax, and let the magic of a feel-good, almost panto-style musical take over. And that is a little understatement of how much I enjoyed Shrek, The Musical, which opened last night at the Lyric theatre in Gold ...