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BAXTER THEATRE

18, Andover Road, Westdene
Cape Town, 2092


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Last Chance To Vote for the 2024 BroadwayWorld South Africa Awards; SPRING AWAKENING at Theatre on the Bay Leads Best Musical!


by BWW Awards - December 27, 2024

This is the last chance to vote for the 2024 BroadwayWorld South Africa Awards! Voting ends on 12/31 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

Final Week To Vote for the 2024 BroadwayWorld South Africa Awards; Theatre on the Bay Leads Favorite Local Theatre!


by BWW Awards - December 23, 2024

This is the final week to vote for the 2024 BroadwayWorld South Africa Awards! Voting ends on 12/31 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

Vote For The 2024 BroadwayWorld South Africa Awards; SPRING AWAKENING at Theatre on the Bay Leads Best Musical!


by BWW Awards - December 16, 2024

Voting continues for the 2024 BroadwayWorld South Africa Awards! Voting ends on 12/31 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

THE JINGLE BELLES Announced At The Drama Factory


by A.A. Cristi - November 12, 2024

Experience the festive spirit with THE JINGLE BELLES at The Drama Factory from December 12-15, 2024. Enjoy a musical theatre performance that captures the essence of Christmas....

The Baxter Theatre Garden to Celebrate The Festive Season With Outdoor Picnic Experience


by Blair Ingenthron - November 11, 2024

This summer, the Ceasar and Oliver families will present a magical evening of live music, comedy, and festive cheer at 'It's Family! It's Festive!', an outdoor picnic experience at the Baxter Theatre Garden....

Review: MY LEFT BREAST at the Baxter Theatre Centre Is a Magnificent Ode to Grief and Womanhood


by Jaime Uranovsky - October 23, 2024

MY LEFT BREAST is a one-woman show, starring Shannon Esra as Susan, a “one-breasted, menopausal, Jewish, bisexual, lesbian mom” as the character emphatically states during this engaging comedy-drama....

Review: INVISIBLE SCARS at the Baxter Studio Is a Tragic Interrogation of the Wounds We Cannot See


by Jaime Uranovsky - October 14, 2024

INVISIBLE SCARS is another superb piece showing at the Baxter Theatre Centre, which has its roots in the annual Zabalaza Theatre Festival. Written and directed by Themba Baleni, the show garnered Zabalaza Awards for both Best Production and Best Direction earlier this year. ...

Dada Masilo's SALOME Makes Cape Town Premiere in Joburg Ballet's SCARCITY at Baxter Theatre


by Stephi Wild - September 30, 2024

Dada Masilo’s Salomé will be featured alongside three other exhilarating works in Joburg Ballet's Scarcity that opens at the Baxter Theatre in October. The highly anticipated season marks the full company’s first-ever visit to the Mother City. ...

Review: THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE at the Baxter Theatre Centre Is Powerful, Political and Poignant


by Jaime Uranovsky - September 27, 2024

There are, unfortunately, many marginalised individuals in South Africa – people who remain forgotten, despite the immense contributions they have made to this country. Black members of the (then) South African Defence Force, who fought for the country during apartheid, constitute one such group....

Joburg Ballet Company Heads To Cape Town For The First Time Ever With SCARCITY


by Stephi Wild - September 19, 2024

Joburg Ballet will present Scarcity at the Baxter Theatre in Cape Town from 24-26 October 2024. The highly anticipated debut season of the full company features works by South Africa’s Dada Masilo and Craig Pedro, alongside Chinese-German choreographer Hannah Ma and Netherlands-based Spanish choreog...

Past Shows

Salomé
10/24 - 10/26/2024


Dada Masilo's Salomé will make its Cape Town debut as part of Joburg Ballet's Scarcity program at Baxter Theatre from October 24 to 26, 2024. ...

Nkoli: The Vogue Opera
Nkoli: The Vogue Opera
10/9 - 10/19/2024


Nkoli: The Vogue Opera to Dazzle Cape Town’s Baxter Theatre from 9 October - 19 October 2024 “Simon Nkoli was a great South African, crucial ...

Maze of the Mind
Maze of the Mind
7/3 - 7/6/2024


We are extremely excited about this season as it is t he beginning of our 10-year Anniversary Celebrations  and in August we will also be ...

THE SIN DRINKERS
THE SIN DRINKERS
4/23 - 5/11/2024


Award winning writer/director Louis Viljoen reunites with broadcasting legend John Maytham and acclaimed actor Emma Kotze to tell a story of broken people and the ...

THE VISIGOTHS
THE VISIGOTHS
6/6 - 6/24/2023


Award-winning playwright and director Louis Viljoen’s new thrilling offering, THE VISIGOTHS, will keep you transfixed at every suspenseful twist and turn at the Baxter’s Masambe ...

W.A. MOZART COSÌ FAN TUTTE
W.A. MOZART COSÌ FAN TUTTE
8/18 - 8/22/2020


AUGUST 18 19:30 19 19:3020 19:30 21 19:3022 18:00 R150, R200, R275 Cosi fan tutte, literally, Thus do all (women) do it, or, sometimes, The ...

AT THE MID HOUR OF NIGHT


Sarah-Jane Brandon and Gary Matthewman, weave together a charming programme of beauty, seduction, mystery and magic as they explore the endless possibilities offered to us ...


African Angels - Cape Town Opera Chorus in cooperation with director Leoni Jansen In the cold winter months, the African Angels perform a range of ...

ORPHÉE ET EURYDICE
ORPHÉE ET EURYDICE
9/3 - 9/7/2019


Gluck's dream of creating a new style of opera, distinguished by classical simplicity and dramatic integrity, was exquisitely realised in his setting of the Orpheus ...

ORPHÉE ET EURYDICE
ORPHÉE ET EURYDICE
3/9 - 7/9/2019


Glucks dream of creating a new style of opera, distinguished by classical simplicity and dramatic integrity, was exquisitely realised in his setting of the Orpheus ...

DE-APART-HATE
DE-APART-HATE
10/24 - 10/28/2017


DE-APART-HATE is a layered piece that reflects complexities of current issues in our world. Nyamza's work is not overtly about apartheid, and neither is about ...

ROCK TO THE CORE
ROCK TO THE CORE
10/17 - 10/21/2017


Disability doesn’t have to be mental, physical or emotional. It surely can be socio-economical. ROCK TO THE CORE aims to shock, shake and shove all ...

GREASE
GREASE
5/4 - 5/6/2017


 Edgemead High School's production of GREASE!...

MADNESS: SONGS OF HOPE AND DESPAIR


The narrative of MADNESS: SONGS OF HOPE AND DESPAIR follows a brilliant young student who moves from rural Eastern Cape to the city to study ...

HASHTAG LOTTERING!
HASHTAG LOTTERING!
1/17 - 2/4/2017


In HASHTAG LOTTERING!, Marc Lottering covers a broad range of topics, ranging from the beauty of a prawn to the dangers of a WhatsApp family ...

FORTYFIED
FORTYFIED
12/6 - 1/14/2017


Nik Rabinowitz has just turned 40 and is on the verge of a midlife crisis. Except that apparently 40 is the new 30 so now ...

THE ECHO OF A NOISE
THE ECHO OF A NOISE
11/29 - 12/17/2016


Having performed alone on the stages of the world for well over seven thousand times, Uys has learnt that every show is the first and ...

LIFE
LIFE
5/3 - 4/28/2016


LIFE, directed by Tara Notcutt, is the new stand-up comedy show from multi-award winning comedian Rob van Vuuren that will run at the Baxter Golden ...

Missing
Missing
2/27 - 2/22/2014


Robert Khalipa has been living in exile in Stockholm, Sweden, for over 30 years, with his wife, Anna Olson, who has inherited her father’s large ...

Scrooge!
Scrooge!
12/4 - 1/25/2014


Marc Lottering is Scrooge in Lara Foot’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol at the Baxter Theatre starring Shaleen Surtie-Richards, Andrew Buckland and Christo ...

Loyiso Gola live
Loyiso Gola live
11/19 - 11/23/2013


South Africa’s number one stand-up comedian Loyiso Gola is back doing a live stand-up comedy show. The award-winning comedy act will be dishing out his ...

Baxter Dance Festival 2013
Baxter Dance Festival 2013
10/3 - 10/12/2013


Dance lovers are in for a treat this year when the annual Baxter Dance Festival kicks off with a jam-packed line-up of the mother city’s ...

STARS OF THE BALLET MOSCOW
6/26 - 6/30/2013


Following their successful South African tour in 2011, Stars of the Ballet Moscow return for a nationwide tour in June 2013. Yuri Vetrov, former director ...


With Stanislav Angelov (accordion), Beverley Chiat (soprano) and Nicky Cencherle (tenor), this trio is sure to take your breath away and put a song in ...


The Cape Town Male Voice Choir was established in 1976 and has a membership of over 40 singers operating in 4-part harmony. Members come from ...


The SA College High School Big Band takes you on a journey of nostalgia featuring great hits from the Big Band Golden Era. The SA ...

THE AFRICAN PASSION
3/28 - 3/31/2013


The African Passion is a brand-new gospel opera, funded by the National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund, which is touring South Africa in March/April 2013 to ...


We welcome three members of the South African Soprano ensemble to our stage. They will captivate, dazzle and awe you with their voices, and will ...

MEN'S ISSUE
2/5 - 2/23/2013


Cape Town funny men Stuart Taylor and Kurt Schoonraad team up with radio personality Nigel Pierce of Good Hope FM and award-winning director Heinrich Reisenhofer ...


A show where you will go on an emotional rollercoaster with songs that are touching, moving, and, yes, definitely fun! Marika will present songs from ...


Their love for music started from an early age and they first used their talents in church choirs. This group was formed in May 2012 ...

KALAHARI KAROO BLUES
1/9 - 1/19/2013


In an exclusive concert for Cape Town, David Kramer brings together eccentric musicians from the far corners of Southern Africa - the Kalahari, the Hardeveld ...

Videos


Shirley Valentine in South Africa Shirley Valentine
Avalon Auditoium @ The Homecoming Centre (the old Fugard Theatre) (2/21 - 2/23)
PHOTOS DISCOUNT
The Addams Family Musical in South Africa The Addams Family Musical
Homecoming Centre (formerly The Fugard) (12/14 - 2/2)
PHOTOS VIDEOS
Dear Evan Hansen in South Africa Dear Evan Hansen
Artscape Theatre Centre (2/12 - 3/9)
Dear Evan Hansen in South Africa Dear Evan Hansen
Teatro at Montecasino (3/15 - 4/13)
Red Riding Hood in South Africa Red Riding Hood
The Masque (12/13 - 1/12)
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