• Postcard from Morocco ends Sunday at the Artscape Theatre Centre. One-act opera by Pulitzer Prize and Grammy Award-winning composer, Dominick Argento, makes its African debut, mixing Viennese operetta and Wagnerian themes with cabaret, coloratura cadenzas and the blues.7pm. R160 at Computicket.
• Morning Melodies: Pieter-Dirk Uys – And Then There Was Madiba runs tomorrow at the Baxter Theatre Centre. 10.30am. R35 at Computicket.
• I’m In Love With A Guitarist ends Saturday at the Baxter Theatre. Five South African guitarists are hosted by Jonathan Rubain, with The Jonathan Rubain Band, Errol Dyers, Allou April, Cameron Ward and Julius Schultz. 8.30pm. R120 Computicket.
• Devilish – Stuart Lightbody ends Sunday at the Kalk Bay Theatre. Sleight-of-hand show performed by magician Lightbody. 8.30pm. R120. Info: www.kalkbaytheatre.co.za.
• The Swell ends Thursday at Theatre Arts Admin Collective. Marie Walters, a recluse who identifies as a mermaid, makes a medical aid claim for the loss of her tail. 8pm. R50. Info: 021 447 3683.
• Smaarties, written and performed by Jannes Erasmus, runs until Saturday, November 29 at the Alexander Bar at 9pm. A powerful one-man show about Mr Lotz who finds himself in a psychiatric ward after the death of his parents. R80. Info: 021 300 1652.
• Curl Up and Dye ends Saturday at The Rosebank Theatre. Christopher Weare directs final-year UCT students in this 1989 South African classic in which Sue Pam-Grant highlights both the popular and political cultures of the time. R100 at www.webtickets.co.za.
• Rondomskrik starring Shaleen Surtie-Richards directed by Hennie van Greunen ends Saturday at The Baxter Theatre. 8pm. R110 at Computicket.
• Kaapse Stories from the Mother City at Richards Supper Stage and Bistro, Sea Point. Directed by Basil Appollis and produced by Richard Loring, this musical dinner introduces the Kleintjies family while giving us an insight into a vigorous cosmopolitan community that thrived in District Six. 7.30pm. R420 at Computicket.
• The Open Couple, written by Dario Fo, produced and directed by Christopher Weare, and performed by Larica Schnell and Nathan Lynn, ends Saturday at the Alexander Bar. A comedy about sexual politics in marriage. 7pm. R100.
Info: 021 300 1088.
• The Last Moustache ends Saturday at the Baxter Theatre Centre. Tim Plewman stars in this show about being a Hitler-double. 8.15pm. R120 at Computicket.
• Jou Ma se Comedy Club runs from Wednesday to Sunday at The Pumphouse, V&A Waterfront. 8.30pm. R95. See www. joumase comedy.com or call 021 447 7237.
• Improguise every Monday at The Galloway Theatre. 8pm. Info: 072 939 3351.
• Comedy at Mercury Live, Zonnebloem, on Wednesdays. R30 at the door (open at 8pm). Stand-up on the last Wednesday of the month, improvisation otherwise. Info: 021 465 2106.
• Comedy at Chilli Bar, Southfield, at 8pm on Thursdays. R30. See www.thechillibar.co.za
• Comedy at Obviouzly Armchair Backpackers & Pub, Observatory, every Sunday. 8.30pm to 10.30pm.
Auditions:
Milnerton Players are auditioning for their next production taking place in March next year. Directed by Johann van der Merwe, Beautiful Thing by Jonathan Harvey is set in a rundown block of flats in Rugby, Cape Town. Five actors make up the cast, three male and two female, and the performers must be prepared to use coarse language. Auditions will be held on Sunday at 1.30pm at the Milnerton Playhouse, Pienaar Road, Milnerton.For more information, please call 083 680 6160.
• To appear in Boardwalk, e-mail all theatre-related information to Atiyyah Khan at [email protected] by Thursday afternoon for publication on Tuesday. Please put “boardwalk” in the subject line of your e-mail.