BILLY SUTER reviews the delightful “Sister Act”, the 20th Northcliff High School stage musical to visit Durban’s Playhouse, where it is booked in until Sunday. Great fun! … More Some fine voices in fun musical
BILLY SUTER reports that former Soft Shoes singer Jervis Pennington is back on the Gauteng stage with a musical memoir … and, in Durban, Ashwin Singh is reviving a 2006 drama. … More Stage works calling back the past
BILLY SUTER reports on a stage drama that often moved him to tears – and which closes the 14th South African Women’s Arts Festival presented by Durban’s Playhouse Company. … More Month of theatre excellence
BILLY SUTER revisits two articles he wrote for The Mercury in the late 1990s – one an interview with singer-actress Carol Trench, the other a review of a show created by Bryan Hill. … More Scrapbook: ’90s panto & musicals
BILLY SUTER chats to seasoned singer Percy Smith who, settled again in Durban, is performing in the new production at Durban’s Rhumbelow Theatre, a show with a lot of soul. … More Smith and a whole lotta soul
BILLY SUTER reports that two acclaimed stage productions which clinched three Naledi Theatre Awards apiece in Johannesburg on June 5, are to be seen at Durban’s Playhouse in August. … More Acclaimed plays for Playhouse
BILLY SUTER reports on scrapbook memories from 2001… when Durban pianist Evan Roberts was in a Piaf tribute show and Ben Voss was in a play by Greig Coetzee. … More Scrapbook: Roberts & Voss in 2001
BILLY SUTER flicks through scrapbooks from his 24 years as Arts Editor of The Mercury to find two very different reviews from early 1996, when he first reviewed a very young Cat Simoni. … More Scrapbook: Nuns… and Cat
BILLY SUTER reviews Think Theatre’s touring production of the Bard’s classic, “Hamlet”, which well showcases award-winning Bryan Hiles’s dramatic chops. … More Hiles shines in accessible Hamlet
Scrapbook memories from 1997…when award-winning Durban stage and costume designer Greg King did cartoons for reviews and interviews in The Mercury. BILLY SUTER reports … More Scrapbook memories: cartoonist King
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