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FUNKE OSAE-BROWN Terra Kulture was a beehive of activities on Saturday. It was the staging of the famous musical Wakaa, to kick off the Lagos at 50 celebration. By 6pm nearly all dignitaries were seated in the new Terra Kulture Arena. The Lagos State deputy governor, Idiat Oluranti Adebule, who…
JUSTICE GODFERY OKAMGBA History was made in the Nigerian film industry, on Sunday, when Terra Kulture launched it’s 400-seater theatre called Terra Kulture Arena, situated at Tiamiyu Savage Crescent, Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria. Obviously, this is a feat that is unprecedented in the Nigerian film industry, where there seem to…
LARA OLADUNI The National Association of Nigerian Theatre Arts Practitioners (NANTAP) will celebrate the 2017 edition of World Theatre Day with a command performance of ‘Beyond the Garb’ by the Thespian Family Theatre on March 27, 2017 at the National Arts Theatre, Iganmu. Speaking at the media briefing to announce…
Akinwunmi Ambode Lagos State Governor, has been commended by theatre arts professionals and stakeholders for investing in infrastructure to boost all genre of the theater profession. The Governor was specifically praised for the initiative to build 6 theaters across the 5 administrative divisions of Lagos State. The State support for…
HANEEFAT IKHARO, CAPE TOWN And so legendary African cultural and civil activist, Miriam Makeba returned to Cape Town last Friday and she was a show-stopper, filling the land with memories and recalls of her extraordinary life of struggles and accomplishments in the arts. Makeba returned gloriously through Mama Africa The…
FUNKE OSAE-BROWN The parking lot at the National Theatre was filled on Sunday. It was a few minutes’ past 3pm. It was only a figure like Wole Soyinka that could pull that kind of crowd to the Theatre in the scorching November sun. By the time I got into the…
Sister Act – The Musical, the world-renowned theatrical piece, earlier scheduled for debut in Nigeria in December will now be staged in Easter, Femi Akinkungbe, executive producer has said in a statement. The postponement, according to the producers, Ajibayo Akinkugbe Productions, a sister arm of the recently inaugurated Ajibayo Akinkugbe…
The National Troupe of Nigeria will on November 19 and 20, at the National Theatre stage one of Professor Wole Soyinka’s most performed plays ‘Death and the King’s Horseman’. The play will be staged as part of the troupe’s ongoing Nigeria’s independence celebration performances and in commemoration of Professor Wole…
Following three years of very successful performances in Nigeria and Davos, Switzerland, the (spectacular) award winning “Kakadu” the Musical will be at the Nelson Mandela Theatre, Johannesburg as part of the Africa Day Celebrations from the 7th to the 18th of June 2017. This was announced yesterday by Claire Pacariz,…
BEN TOMOLOJU is the director of the festival play, ‘The Wives Revolt’, at the MUSON 2016 Festival. In this interview, he tells FUNKE OSAE-BROWN what to expect and his excitement as the play’s director. Can you tell us about the play? This is JP Clark’s ‘The Wives Revolt’. It was…
J.P Clark’s famous play, ‘The Wives Revolt’ will be one of the major highlights at this year’s edition of the Music Society of Nigeria (MUSON) Festival, the festival committee chairman, Kitoyi Ibare-Akinsan has announced. Ibare-Akinsan who made this known recently in Lagos said this is in line with the objectives…
IFEOMA OKEKE It was an evening of explicit exposure to diverse cultures of Nigeria by children through drama, music and dance, as the National Theatre, Cinema Hall II, blazed in colourful attires of diverse tribes. The joy of parents knew no bound as they watched their children on stage being…
The swollen waves of the Senegalese sea land forcefully on the shore as the camera focuses on the subject of this week’s edition of ‘African Start-Up’, a programme that focuses on small businesses across Africa, which airs every Wednesday on CNN’s ‘Connect the World’ at 1500 GMT. Stephen Senghor has…
The early Friday morning sun shines brightly on the horizon as our plane touched down at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Kenya. Our airplane is one full of stars and as we find our way out of the arrival hall to the passport control section, immigration officers and airport porters…
It was an interesting and eclectic performance put up by the cast of ‘Mad King of Ijudiya’, a play written and produced by Ayo Jaiyesimi, sponsored by FirstBank Plc. Mad King of Ijudiya tells the story of King Ero ba ni se, a draconian ruler, who, for fear of rivalry…
The quest for quality has seen Nigeria’s film industry, Nollywood, produce its most expensive movie “Half of a Yellow Sun,” which costs about N1.27 billion ($8m) to make. The movie, an adaptation of Chimanmanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel, “Half of a Yellow Sun,” was shot at Tinapa Film Studio, Cross River…
