The 2026 South African College of Music UCT Symphony Orchestra Showcase features collaborative performances across Opera, Classical, Jazz and African/Pan-African music in one dynamic concert.

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.

You Should Go In is a moving new drama about family, abandonment, and the complicated road to forgiveness.

Following a very successful short run at Magnet Theatre in 2024 and nominated for 7 Fleur du Cap awards (winning for Best original music)

WindWorx, Stellenbosch University and the University of Cape Town Symphonic Wind Ensembles come together to honour the life and legacy of Sean Kierman in a special collaborative tribute concert.

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

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

HATCHED ENSEMBLE is a new work as motivated by Mamela Nyamza’s highly acclaimed solo work HATCHED created in 2007,

Join the UCT Big Band at the Baxter Theatre on April 30th in celebration of the 15th anniversary of International Jazz Day.

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...

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

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

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

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.

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...

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….”

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:

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.