Aaron Posner’s Stupid Fucking Bird is a bold and darkly funny reimagining of Chekhov’s The Seagull, which deals with humans’ timeless obsessions with fame, love and the search for meaning.

The work THE HERD/LESS embraces the dual meaning of the “herd”: a collective of people or animal species living...

Established in 2021, the David Aldred Memorial Prize for Sopranos honours Aldred’s love of the soprano voice. SACM singers perform programmes including Strauss’s Four Last Songs, accompanied by Prof Jeremy Silver.

The 16th annual Shakespeare Schools Festival South Africa (SSFSA) returns, showcasing local primary and high schools, along with youth drama groups, in dynamic abridged performances of Shakespeare’s plays...

Commissioned by The Market Theatre and The Baxter Theatre to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1976 Youth Uprisings...

‘Ndab’ezikude’ which means stories far away is the name of a show put together by Jabulile Majola and Thando Zide.

Opera UCT joins forces with the vocal division of Stellenbosch University for their sixth annual collaboration, presenting a sparkling selection of Brahms’ Liebeslieder Waltzes as this year’s theme.

After a hugely successful, sold out debut run at the Galloway Theatre, in November 2025 this captivating one-woman dramedy is about to return to the stage, this time the Baxter

The Cape Town Marimba Festival is joint venture between the Cape Town Big Band Jazz Festival and Woodworx Marimbas. The Marimba Festival is an annual event and has been showcasing marimbas at the Baxter Concert Hall since 2009.

The Steelband Project (Western Cape) was set up in 1997 by Liz Brouckaert and David Wickham...

Morning Melodies is a programme that focuses on presenting professional and affordable morning concerts to the senior citizens of the Western Cape.

We Dance at Home - Kesivan & The Lights Live at the Baxter

The Cape Town Big Band Jazz Festival is renowned as one of South Africa’s premier showcases of musical youthful talent.

South Africa’s oldest and largest comedy festival, established in 1997 and still going strong.

Presented by multiple-award-winning South African Theatre Company – How Now Brown Cow - Constellations is a two-hander play by the British playwright Nick Payne.

Commission Continua is another striking theatrical offering by Phala Ookeditse Phala & Bonani Tony Miyambo. At the heart of this production is South African society’s struggle for real change and reconciliation.

The Cape Town Concert Series presents a season of concerts focused around it’s Steinway Grand Piano - which turns 65 this year and is considered one of the finest recital pianos in the country.

Anjumara Khan presents a Musical Gathering of Friends - a collaboration between Indian musicians and local artists...

Join the Cape Town Philharmonic Youth Orchestra and conductor Liam Burden in celebrating Youth Day in Symphonic Adventures

Celebrated South African comedian Kurt Schoonraad brings his hit one-man show Funny Side Up back to Cape Town for a highly anticipated return season at the Baxter Theatre in June 2026.

Morning Melodies is a programme that focuses on presenting professional and affordable morning concerts to the senior citizens of the Western Cape.

From the producers of last year’s hugely successful Jack and the Beanstalk at the Baxter Theatre, and 20 sold-out award-winning pantomimes in Durban and Johannesburg, KickstArt Theatre bring you Puss in Boots...

“There is a reason why children do not play on graveyards at night….”

This delightful new cabaret is a mouth-watering smorgasbord of theatrical bites.

Samthing Soweto’s Good Morning Live is the official live launch of his album Touch Is a Move: Good Morning...

Have you ever gone through a divorce? Well, Schalk has! And lucky for you, he has to talk about it. Actually...

Tessa is a young, brilliant barrister. She has worked her way up from working-class origins to the top of her game:

Winner of 2020’s Best New Script, Best New Director, and Best Solo Performance Fleur du Cap Awards, in addition to being nominated for Best Director and Best Production.

The UCT Ibuyambo Orchestra presents Fragments of Sarah, an interdisciplinary performance reflecting on the life and legacy of Sarah Baartman through sound, movement, memory and storytelling.