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Latest Standings Announced for the 2025 BroadwayWorld South Africa Awards; JOSEPH Leads Best Musical!


by BWW Awards - December 15, 2025

The latest standings have been released for the 2025 BroadwayWorld South Africa Awards! Voting ends on 12/31/2025 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

Latest Standings Announced for the 2025 BroadwayWorld South Africa Awards; The Outlore Base Leads Favorite Theatre!


by BWW Awards - December 08, 2025

The latest standings have been released for the 2025 BroadwayWorld South Africa Awards! Voting ends on 12/31/2025 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

Cape Town Opera Reveals 2026 Season Lineup


by Stephi Wild - December 05, 2025

Cape Town Opera has announced its 2026 season that spans grand opera, new musical collaborations, family-friendly storytelling and community engagement across the city. ...

First Standings Announced for the 2025 BroadwayWorld South Africa Awards; SPRING AWAKENING Leads Best Musical!


by BWW Awards - December 01, 2025

The first standings have been released for the 2025 BroadwayWorld South Africa Awards! Voting ends on 12/31/2025 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

Review: Cape Town's JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT is A Hit


by Faeron Wheeler - October 15, 2025

This production of JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT brings the joy, the oomph and the laughter in buckets! I can see exactly why they've returned for another season here in Cape Town....

JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT Returns to Cape Town in October


by Stephi Wild - September 26, 2025

After a completely sold-out Cape Town season and an equally spectacular run in Johannesburg, the hit production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is returning to Theatre on the Bay....

Review: SALT celebrates South African choreographers


by Faeron Wheeler - September 22, 2025

It's important to know that this is three separate pieces that are linked together through the themes of memory, emotion and thoughts. What you're getting as an audience member is raw athleticism and performance from the dancers as the music moves them....

Review: NOISES OFF at Theatre on the Bay Is a Seamless and Side-Splittingly Funny Farce


by Jaime Uranovsky - September 09, 2025

NOISES OFF by Michael Frayn is hailed as one of the funniest plays ever written. To succeed with a farce like this, however, requires exceptional execution. It’s no surprise then that this production hits all the right notes; I laughed from start to finish....

LUNGS Comes to STUDIO Theatre, Montecasino


by Stephi Wild - August 12, 2025

The Quickening Theatre Company will present LUNGS at STUDIO Theatre, Montecasino. The West End hit by Duncan Macmillan arrives after a successful and acclaimed run at Theatre On The Bay in Cape Town....

Review: BEYOND at Theatre on the Bay Is Beyond Words


by Jaime Uranovsky - July 24, 2025

LAMTA has done it again with BEYOND: A FANTASY CIRQUE EXPERIENCE. This gorgeous, cirque variety show is packed with awe-inspiring numbers by a range of choreographers: Anna Olivier, Ashley Searle, Gain Collective, Duane Alexander, Jared Schaedler, Jasmine Minter, Michelle Reid, Naoline Quinzin, the ...

Past Shows

NOISES OFF
NOISES OFF
8/28 - 9/14/2025

BEYOND - A Fantasy Cirque Experience


Prepare to be mesmerised by ‘BEYOND’, an enchanting fusion of dance, music, and mystique that invites you to explore the extraordinary. LAMTA’s new dance production ...

BEYOND - A Fantasy Cirque Experience


Prepare to be mesmerised by ‘BEYOND’, an enchanting fusion of dance, music, and mystique that invites you to explore the extraordinary. LAMTA’s new dance production ...

HOLLYWOOD
HOLLYWOOD
10/14 - 10/26/2024


Join us as LAMTA's captivating dance production,  'Hollywood',  returns to Theatre on the Bay in Camps Bay this October following its sold-out success earlier this ...

A Streetcar Named Desire
A Streetcar Named Desire
8/14 - 8/24/2024


LAMTA announces its next production, *A Streetcar Named Desire,* at Theatre on the Bay from 14 August 2024. Following the success of *Hollywood,* LAMTA’s next ...

HOLLYWOOD
HOLLYWOOD
6/19 - 6/29/2024


The Luitingh Alexander Musical Theatre Academy will present their dance production - Hollywood - set to light up the stage from 19th to 29th June 2024 at ...

Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf


Gloucester Productions presents Edward Albee's WHOS AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF.Directed by Sylvaine Strike.Dates: 16 September to 8 October, 2022 at Theatre On The Bay.Edward Albees ...

Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf


Gloucester Productions presents Edward Albee's WHOS AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF.Directed by Sylvaine Strike.Dates: 16 September to 8 October, 2022 at Theatre On The Bay.Edward Albees ...

Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf


Gloucester Productions presents Edward Albee's WHOS AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF.Directed by Sylvaine Strike.Dates: 16 September to 8 October, 2022 at Theatre On The Bay.Edward Albees ...

Pieter Toerien presents Paul Slabolepszy's FORDSBURG'S FINEST


Pieter Toerien presents Paul Slabolepszy's hit play, FORDSBURG'S FINEST at Theatre On The Bay.Directed by Bobby Heaney.Dates: 19 August - 10 September 2022FORDSBURG'S FINEST is ...

Alan Committie's Apocalaughs Now!


Attention comedy fans! Due to the huge demand Theatre On The Bay has added 3 extra weekends of shows, AND a 5pm matinee on Sat ...

Alan Committie's Apocalaughs Now!


Theatre on the bay is thrilled to announce we are re-opening our doors FROM the 23rd April, for Friday & Saturday night performances only! (If ...

HONKY CATS
HONKY CATS
1/16 - 1/27/2018


Ian von Memerty, South Africa's "Prince of the Piano," will pay tribute to the world's "King of the Keyboard," Elton John in HONKY CATS this ...

PLANET MIRTH
PLANET MIRTH
12/6 - 1/13/2018


In PLANET MIRTH, Alan Committie presents a docu-comedy in the highest definition and promises all the infectious energy, physical hi-jinks, witty wordplay and hysterical observations ...

ROCCO'S XMAS PIANO
ROCCO'S XMAS PIANO
11/28 - 12/2/2017


After playing to capacity houses with AMAZING GRACE in 2017 at Theatre on the Bay, popular pianist Rocco de Villiers is back with a fun-filled ...

RECUERDOS
RECUERDOS
11/21 - 11/25/2017


Internationally acclaimed and award-winning South African based guitarist James Grace will appear at Theatre on the Bay for the first time this November. Grace will ...

THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG
THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG
11/1 - 11/18/2017


Directed by Alan Committie, the comedian who is always high on laughs, THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG returns to Theatre on the Bay this November ...

MY NAME IS ASHER LEV
MY NAME IS ASHER LEV
10/17 - 10/28/2017


Aaron Posner's play, MY NAME IS ASHER LEV, is adapted from the bestselling novel by Chaim Potok. For as long as he can remember, Asher ...

SANTA'S STORY
SANTA'S STORY
10/10 - 10/15/2017


SANTA’S STORY is a moving, one-woman show depicting Santa Pelham’s journey of courage, hope and inspiration through discrimination to heartbreaking losses – a triumph of ...

A HANDFUL OF KEYS
A HANDFUL OF KEYS
8/30 - 10/8/2017


A HANDFUL OF KEYS, South Africa's most successful musical revue ever, will return to Theatre on the Bay from the end of August. Launched in ...

THE MYSTERY OF IRMA VEP
THE MYSTERY OF IRMA VEP
8/2 - 8/19/2017


On a remote manor called Mandacrest, something is amiss. Between the horrors of a marauding beast terrorising the estate and the looming presence of the ...

SYNERGY
SYNERGY
7/18 - 7/30/2017


In SYNERGY, Ian and Vivienne von Memerty combine 26 years of life's struggles with their creative partnership to bring fresh insight into the synergy that ...

LAUGHING MATTERS
LAUGHING MATTERS
12/6 - 1/14/2017


In LAUGHING MATTERS, Alan Committie puts laughter at the top of the country's agenda again. In this all-new stand-up show, he will unpack the importance ...

I LOVE YOU, YOU'RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE


Written by Tony Award winner Joe DiPietro with music by Jimmy Roberts, I LOVE YOU, YOU'RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE is Off-Broadway's love letter to the ...

KEYBOARD KILLERS
KEYBOARD KILLERS
6/29 - 7/17/2016


Of the millions of people who play the piano, only a few rare individuals create music and lyrics that inspire all humanity for decades. In ...

Sweeney Todd
Sweeney Todd
2/19 - 4/9/2016


Pieter Toerien's Montecasino Theatre will play host to Steven Stead's production of SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET, Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's ...

ADAPT OR FLY
ADAPT OR FLY
1/7 - 1/25/2014


Pieter-Dirk Uys will have you rolling in the aisles with his unique brand of satire. ADAPT OR FLY is a personal political comedy-trek along a ...

SUNSET BOULEVARD
SUNSET BOULEVARD
10/28 - 1/4/2014


In 2005 Pieter Toerien decided to bring audiences at Theatre on the Bay iconic musicals from Broadway and the West End, and the tradition of ...

BLOOD BROTHERS
BLOOD BROTHERS
9/10 - 10/20/2013


24 years in the West End – now in South Africa for the first time! By Willy Russell, multi award-winning author and screenwriter of EDUCATING ...

THE RISE OF... THE INSANITY LEAGUE


A comedy movement, this trio have teamed up to deliver a sketch comedy show which pokes, provokes and tickles in all the right places and ...

DEFENDING THE CAVEMAN
DEFENDING THE CAVEMAN
7/10 - 8/3/2013


Don't be the only couple who doesn't know what everybody is talking about around the braai, cocktails, dinner table or high-tea! Make sure you see ...

HATS OFF!
HATS OFF!
6/26 - 7/7/2013


In HATS OFF! Jonathan Roxmouth and Louis Zurnamer team up to revisit the madcap musical antics of famous British comedy duo, Michael Flanders and Donald ...

VENUS IN FUR
VENUS IN FUR
6/5 - 6/22/2013


VENUS IN FUR introduces us to Vanda, an unusually talented young actress determined to land the lead in celebrated playwright Thomas' new play, based on ...

TWITCH
TWITCH
5/15 - 6/1/2013


Four twitchers in a bird-hide, somewhere in the Kruger National Park. They're taking part in a major birding competition. The first prize is a trip ...

DON'T DRESS FOR DINNER
DON'T DRESS FOR DINNER
4/17 - 5/11/2013


DON'T DRESS FOR DINNER is a nifty comedy farce about double adultery and gourmet cooking that will have you crying with laughter and begging for ...

AN ABSOLUTE TURKEY
AN ABSOLUTE TURKEY
3/12 - 3/23/2013


Georges Feydeau’s classic French farce. Director Christopher Weare uses some of the most recognisable pop art of the 1960s, live on stage folly, and iconic ...

NOEL AND GERTIE
NOEL AND GERTIE
2/19 - 3/9/2013


This witty and moving show, affectionately crafted from diaries and letters between Coward and his stage partner, Gertrude Lawrence, tells the story of the professional ...

FASCINATING AIDA: THE CHEAP FLIGHTS TOUR


Continuing their smash-hit, sell-out international tour, three times Olivier Award-nominated (and now global internet sensation) FASCINATING AIDA are still Britain's best comedy cabaret trio. This ...

CABARET
CABARET
8/14 - 10/6/2012


"What good is sitting alone in your room? Come to the CABARET!" Set in Berlin’s seedy Kit Kat Club, under the ominous presence of the ...

Videos


PRETTY WOMAN: The Musical in South Africa PRETTY WOMAN: The Musical
Artscape Theatre Centre (3/18 - 4/19)
THE NUTCRACKER in South Africa THE NUTCRACKER
Teatro at Montecasino (12/4 - 12/21)
PRETTY WOMAN: The Musical in South Africa PRETTY WOMAN: The Musical
Teatro at Montecasino (4/24 - 5/31)
THE NUTCRACKER in South Africa THE NUTCRACKER
Teatro at Montecasino (12/4 - 12/21)
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