Another re-run is Somewhere on the Border which runs until 12th Feb at the Main Theatre at the Market.  Exactly 25 years after the play first performed in Grahamstown, André Odendaal’s production opened at the 2011 National Arts Festival. Leon van Nierop concluded his review on Artslink saying “the play performs an open heart surgery on the South African psyche. It is timely, finely acted and forcefully directed. See it at all costs.”
Tues – Sat @ 20h00, Sun @ 15h00
Ticket prices: Tues – R66, Wed & Thurs – R95, Fri & Sat – R160, Sun – R120
Special: 11h00 performances @ R50 only from 10 – 13 January 2012

Following its success at three South African Arts Festivals and a tour of Holland, US playwright Dael Orlandersmith’s love story, Yellowman, is back at the Laager Theatre. Yellowman is a contemporary tragedy with the parts played by David Johnson as Eugene (Gene) and Mwenya Kabwe who won Fleur Du Cap for Best Actress for her role as Alma. Ticket prices: Tues – R66, Wed & Thurs – R90, Fri & Sat – R140, Sun – R100

There are two musicals showing at the Joburg Theatre. If ABBA is your thing then The ABBA Show is for you! – Showing until 5th Feb.     I heard P-J Powers being interviewed on her role as Dusty in You don’t have to say you love me; The Dusty Springfield Show.  Sounds like a fun production. On until the 12th February.  

At Pieter Toerien Monte Casino Main Theatre, Agatha Christie’s classic Whodunit is on until 26 Feb and the long-awaited production of  Broadway’s longest running musical, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera opens at Teatro Monte Casino on 31st January.

Straight from sold out seasons in Cape Town, the Grahamstown National Arts Festival and the Hilton Festival Gaetan Schmid’s comedy Body Language is showing the Old Mutual Theatre on the Square until 4th February.

Jonah Sack’s Reading Room  (below left) runs until the 29th October at AOP 44 Stanley, Auckland Park

 A Means to an End,  an exhibition by Patricia Driscoll opens at Gallery Momo Parktown North on 20th October at 18.30. It runs until 14th November . 

Stephen Rosin’s first solo exhibition opened at the ABSA Art Gallery 161 Absa Towers North on 12th October  

Images of Africa , a photographic exhibition by Kobus Van Niekerk  Upstairs at Bamboo, Melville on until 20th October

At Kim Sacks Gallery in Parkwood From the table, to the wall, and back, Clementina Van der Walt’s exhibition of her recent ceramic works.

Lettie Gardner’s People on the Edge is showing at Thompson’s Gallery 78 3^rd Ave Melville. There will be a panel discussion on Sunday 16^th Oct at 4 with Professor Douglas Irvine (a collector of Gardner’s work), Joyce Ozynski, art critic and art historian, and journalist Fiona Lloyd.

Resolution gallery (142 Jan Smuts Ave Parkwood) presents Rodney Place’s Tasche du Sac, which runs throughout October to 5 November

There is always lots on at Arts on Main .  SEIPPEL GALERY is hosting a new groupshow with sculptures from Kevin Brand (Cape Town), Danelle Janse van Rensburg (Pretoria) and Robert Schad (Germany) as well as prints of the series “50 Stories” by Colleen Alborough. Showin until 19th November.

Showing at GoetheOnMain at Arts on Main is Fragments from the City Abdulrazaq Awofeso.  Awofeso uses combustible, organic matter – the discarded pallets he collects in Johannesburg where he works – to carve statues of the faithful. Closes 31 October .