Theatre is up and running at Daphne Kuhn's Liberty Life Theatre on the Square in Sandton with Paul Slab's Not The Big Easy gently easing in the New Year and running until February 3.
This will be followed by another familiar face in Porra 2 - The Returnsh with director and creators Ruth Levin and Sonia Esgueira back as they share in the chaos, frustrations, hidden desires and values that make up the Ferreira family.
The show celebrates a community that holds their culture close to their heart despite being called greasy, smelly, dark and hairy. It is a testimony to a hot-blooded and compelling people, which will have you laughing and crying.
After all, Porras are just Jews with more hair, say the women in control. Tickets are selling like pregos, so they advise patrons to book smartly for the short run from February 5 to 24.
Eve Ensler of Vagina Monologues fame is back with her latest work, The Good Boy, to be presented by Des and Dawn Lindberg. As in her previous work, the focus is women but this time she spotlights their obsession with looks.
Lizz Meiring, Esmeralda Bihl and Anne Power will be performing in this play that promises to be funny and blushingly honest. It runs from March 1 to 31.
Daphne Kuhn and Big Leaf Productions are up next with an exquisite new award-winning musical from Broadway by Tony Award-winning composer, Jason Robert Brown.
The Last Five Years, starring Heather Knight and Adam du Plessis with musical direction by Bryan Schimmel, runs from April 3 to 28. It is directed by Paul Griffiths and designed by Niall Griffin. Described as a "musical masterpiece" and winner of the Drama Desk Award for Best Musical and Best Lyrics, this intimate musical deals with a relationship, told in song, starting from the first meeting and ending in the present.
Then it's time for some cheeky comedy with Gretha Brazelle and Ben Voss (of Black Mamba fame) starring in Tom, Dick and Harry, an original new play conceptualised by Brazelle and directed by Helen Iskander. Inspired by a true life story of a fascinating South African woman, wife, mother and prostitute, the play runs from May 1 to 19.
Funnyman Marc Lottering is back for a second time with another season of Hallelujah from May 22 to June 2 which is followed by Neil LaBute's new comedy Some Girls starring Craig Urbani in the part played by David Schwimmer in London.
It will be directed by Alan Swerdlow and stars four actresses with Man (Urbani) seeking out his ex-girlfriends in his personal journey of self-discovery.
Sunday nights in April and May will play host to Harry Sideropoulous' 12-piece band for evenings of glitzy, ritzy swing.
Also watch out for productions scheduled for later in the year:
Kuhn has scooped the rights for the international play based on the famous novel by Chaim Potok, The Chosen, adapted by Aaron Posner and Potok.
There's also a love story titled Tomorrow set in 1940s Europe written by and starring Keren Tahore and James Cunningham and directed by Helen Iskander.
The enchanting The Boy Who Fell from The Tree by Juliet Jenkin, directed by Roy Sergeant, Sylvaine Strike's sublime Coupé and Jo Watson's The X-Files will all be staged later in the year.