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A legend in classical music with over 100 albums and 19 Grammy® Awards. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma, will be making his long-awaited South African debut at Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden, in Cape Town.  On Saturday, 8 February at 7pm, Mr Ma will perform Johann Sebastian Bach’s Six Suites for Unaccompanied Cello without interval; his visit to Cape Town is part of his global Bach Project, presented locally by Showtime Management. ...

Comedy World Tour is coming with No Disrespect to SA! Legendary comedian, Tracy Morgan, has announced his 2020 No Disrespect world tour which includes three back-to-back shows around South Africa – Cape Town on the 29th May; Durban on the 30th May and Pretoria on the 31st May. Tracy Morgan is best known for his appearances on Saturday Night Live and his role as Tracy ...

Are You Ready to Make Out as the End of the Road World Tour hits SA? Big Concerts announced that it is the End of the Road… But not for them as South Africa’s leading promotor of International Artists on South African Stages, but as the World Tour remarking on by the controversial band, Kiss, bringing their show, Kiss: The End of the Road World ...

A Newly Imagined Queen Musical Begins Major 2020 World Tour here in SA!

An Experienced Production Team pays off for Yellowbone Entertainment.

Starry Cast for Athol Fugard’s Masterpiece for the Fugard’s 10’th Birthday! A star-studded cast has been announced for a new Fugard Theatre production of Athol Fugard’s masterpiece Master Harold…And The Boys which marks the start of the Fugard Theatre’s 2020 season and tenth birthday year. Presented by Eric Abraham and The Fugard Theatre’s Master Harold…And The Boys will run in the Fugard Studio Theatre from ...

The original family drama is coming your way in Feb! M-Net’s first English language drama series in more than a decade, Deon Meyer’s thrilling crime story, Trackers, rocketed to the top of M-Net’s ratings for the year and received rave reviews from critics and viewers alike. Following the success of this magnificent production, M-Net 101 will boost its broadcast schedule with a host of exhilarating local series ...

Cape Town, Durban, Jozi… R U Ready… WWE LIVE will return to South Africa in 2020 with events on Wednesday, April 29 at Grand Arena Grandwest in Cape Town; Thursday, April 30 at Moses Mabhida Stadium, Durban; and Friday, May 1 and Saturday, May 2 at Ticketpro Dome, Johannesburg. Tickets for WWE LIVE South Africa are available via Computicket. Fans attending WWE LIVE will see their favourite Superstars including Seth Rollins™, Becky Lynch™, Charlotte Flair™, Bobby Lashley™, The O.C.™, Ricochet™,  Aleister Black™ and more*. “We ...

kykNET se Plaasjapie beloof ‘n Groot Oes met Groot Pryse! Kan jy vir  een maand op ‘n plaas oorleef? Skryf in vir kykNET se nuwe realiteitsprogram, Plaasjapie, en bewys dat jy ‘n boer is wat ‘n plan kan maak. Plaasjapie is kykNET se splinternuwe realiteitsreeks wat deelnemers die geleentheid gee om te wys of hulle die deursettingsvermoë het om op ‘n plaas te oorleef. 20 ...

Enter NOW to outwit, outplay and outlast the Survivor SA, Season 8.  Survivor SA fans finally received the news that they have been waiting for since nifty player Rob Bentele nabbed the title of Sole Survivor at the end of season 7’s live finale. M-Net confirmed that Survivor South Africa will return for an eighth season in 2020 and that entries have officially opened. Those who think they ...

Dazzling Ballet Classic returns to the Johannesburg Stage.

Emily Van Camp returns to the Small Screen in awaited 3rd Season.  Entering its third season, The Resident continues to rip back the curtain and reveal the truth of what really happens, both good and bad, in hospitals across the country. This third season of this firm favourite premieres on Fox, on Tuesdays at 20:45 CAT from 21 January 2020. The provocative medical drama follows ...

Welcome to Queendom! Netflix announced that Queen Sono will release exclusively on Netflix worldwide on February 28, 2020. After the assassination of her mother, Queen Sono grows up to become a kick- ass yet unconventional spy devoted to protecting the people of Africa. During a dangerous field assignment, Queen unknowingly uncovers shocking details about her mother’s death, sparking her own truth-finding mission. Queen Sono will be ...

Second Season for Otis streams on Netflix this January. Sex Education will return to Netflix on 17 January 2020 with 8 brand new episodes. Sex Education is about Otis Milburn, a socially awkward high school student who lives with his sex therapist mother, Jean. In season 1 Otis and his friend Maeve Wiley set-up a sex clinic at school to capitalise on his intuitive talent ...

Jenny Han’s Best Selling Novel coming alive on Netflix. A new film with Noah Centineo, which is based on the #1 New York Times best-selling YA romance novel, will commence streaming on Netflix, as of 12 February 2020. It’s a new year and Lara Jean, played by Lana Condor, and Peter, Centineo’s character, are no longer pretending to be a couple. They now are a ...

Our own Theron against Kidman, in this new Jay Roach Real Life Feature. A new film reveals the personal and professional cost often paid by women when publicly going into battle with very powerful men. Bombshell, a film by award-winning director Jay Roach and screenwriter Charles Randolph, tells the explosive story of the women who brought down a powerful media mogul. Based on the real-life ...

New International Feature highlights the harsh realities of addiction. A Million Little Pieces is the adaptation of the notorious 2003 bestseller with the same name by James Frey, which offered a visceral account of the author’s time at a rehabilitation centre in the 1990s. An alcoholic and a drug addict, 23 year-old James has two options: treatment or death. After waking up on a plane ...

Star filled Cast in this David and Goliath Feature by Todd Haynes.  Dark Waters tells the shocking and heroic story of an attorney who risks his career and family to uncover a dark secret hidden by one of the world’s largest corporations and to bring justice to a community dangerously exposed for decades to deadly chemicals. Based on The New York Times Magazine article, The ...

Director of Skyfall, brings Epic War Movie to South Africa. The highly-anticipated new film from acclaimed director Sam Mendes, is the suspenseful war-drama 1917 – scheduled for release in South African cinemas on 17 January 2020. Sam Mendes, the Oscar®-winning director of Skyfall, Spectre and American Beauty, brings his singular vision to his World War I epic, which follows the thrilling tale of two young British soldiers on a single ...

BBC Studios Celebrates 20th Anniversary in SA with Stellar Local Line-Up. To mark the end of a successful 20th anniversary year for its channels business in Africa, BBC Studios revealed a full stellar summer season of programming across BBC Lifestyle, BBC Earth, BBC First, BBC Brit and CBeebies. South Africans can look forward to another local commission with a season 2 of Dinner Dates South ...

Montecasino to host the new Mzansi Production in January. The South African International Ballet Competition, funded by the National Lotteries Commission, is happy to announce the staging of the new production of The Queen Show, a celebration of ballet and dance to the timeless music of Queen. The production will be staged by Mzansi Ballet. This new production will run at the Pieter Toerien Theatre ...

Fun on Stage and Screen at Gold Reef City this December. Gold Reef City, SA’s beloved local entertainment spot with their infamous Theme Park, is bringing the colorful world of Dr Seuss to the Lyric Theatre, to inspire and entertain like never before with Seussical! If that isn’t enough, check out the magical line up of family entertainment at Tsogo Sun’s Gold Reef City.   ...

A Celebration of Summer and Festive Attractions at the Venue that’s Got It! Montecasino, SA’s very own Tuscan Village on African soil, is celebrating the summer season, in a true Italian style with festivo spirit! So if you are around the Northern Suburbs of Jozi, even if you are only visiting these parts of the country, check out things to do this December season, at ...

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It’s more than a Festival ….. It’s a Movement! Earlier this year, the Right2Unite Movement announced that the Right2Unite Festival will be held on 21 March 2020 at the Cradle Boutique Hotel in Kromdraai, Johannesburg. Through dialogue and engagement, Right2Uinite aim to make a difference by uniting people into one front, fighting for change that serves the greater good. They believe that we are all ...

Unhitched guys over 25, meet the woman of your dreams on M-Net! If you are looking for that special woman to settle down with, take note that M-Net’s brand new reality dating show; The Single Wives SA, are now inviting guys over the age of twenty-five, from all over South Africa, to put their name forward. If you are one of the successful candidates, you may ...

The Story of Scrooge, presented in a Ballet to Cape Town this Christmas Season. Cape Town City Ballet presents a sumptuous production of A Christmas Carol – The Story of Scrooge that will be the perfect holiday entertainment for the whole family! The production will be presented at Artscape Theatre from 14 to 24 December. This special Dickens treat for all ages, is a timeless ...

It’s a Scorching Summer with the Hottest Musical in Cape Town. Summer ‘19 is set to be the hottest season yet with the scorching hit musical Kinky Boots, that has been igniting the stage at The Fugard Theatre situated in the Mother City. Presented by Eric Abraham and The Fugard Theatre, the five-star South African premiere of this big hearted, Tony Award-winning musical has been ...

Andre Schwartz and Coenie de Villiers teamed up in a Production without Borders. Two of South Africa’s most loved entertainers join forces for the very first time to create a truly memorable musical show. The ever-popular Andre Schwartz and Coenie de Villiers have collaborated to bring us the heartfelt Grensloos. Says Coenie: “For years we’ve been threatening to produce something together and whilst we’re still ...

During Christmas, Tradition is synonym to Scrooge, and his Spirits. VR Theatrical is proud to once again present Charles Dickens’ evergreen tale of redemption, A Christmas Carol with Charlie Bouguenon as Scrooge and Amber Burnhams as Everyone Else, in this two-hander adaptation by the amazing Elizma Badenhorst, whose talents are labelled by Stage and Screen as very underrated, deserving of more acclaim. Bah, Humbug! the ...