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ENTERTAINMENT IN
CAPE TOWN

Much of Cape Town’s leisure activity centres comedy. Cape Town has its own original form
on the beaches and mountains, but the city is of jazz, which can be heard in many of the
developing a fine reputation for its nightlife restaurants, bars and clubs in and around
and vibrant cultural events. Some of the best Long Street. Capetonians are known to be
entertainment is found alfresco, with buskers laid-back, and enjoy dinner followed by a
and local beat dancers fighting it out on the visit to the cinema, but the city also caters
streets of the city. The grand flagship venue is for serious clubbers. Much of the action
the Artscape Theatre Centre, which attracts is concentrated on the trendy clubs and
audiences to local and international music bars in the city centre and at the
performances, dance, cabaret, theatre and V&A Waterfront.
Information
For details of entertainment
in the city, check the daily and
weekend newspapers. They
review and list events in the
cinema, arts and theatre.
Good choices include the Cape
Times, Cape Argus on Tuesdays,
Mail & Guardian on Fridays and
the Weekend Argus. The Cape
radio station Good Hope FM
mentions events from time to
time, and the websites Cape Computicket booking office, V&A Waterfront
Town Magazine and What’s
On in Cape Town are great Booking Tickets collected from these outlets
resources for listings, reviews Computicket is South Africa’s or can be printed at home. A
and ideas of what to do and see. nationwide booking agency credit or debit card is required,
For details of nightlife for all concerts, theatre which also means you can
events, flyers are the best bet performances and live book tickets prior to your arrival
and are found all over the city. performances, plus events and in South Africa, but cash is
Try www.capetownlive.com sports fixtures. It has a also accepted at the outlets.
for more information. Many comprehensive website for Alternatively, tickets can
venues have leaflets about online booking, or you can be purchased directly at
forthcoming attractions, and phone its call centre. In the venues.
the major venues have addition, tickets can be
information telephone lines and purchased via mobile phone
websites. For information on all using the Computicket Disabled Visitors
live performances, check mobisite, or by visiting one of In general, most public
Computicket (see Booking the branches in the major buildings, museums and top
Tickets, right), and for any other shopping malls, or any branch visitor attractions cater for
specific questions, Cape Town of Shoprite and Checkers wheelchair-users. Many of the
Tourism is also very helpful. supermarkets. Tickets can be theatres, including Artscape
and the Baxter, as well as
some Ster-Kinekor and
Nu Metro cinemas, have
spaces at the back or sides of
the auditoriums that can
comfortably accommodate
wheelchairs. Most also have
dedicated parking, adapted
toilets and a lift from the
entrance. For rock and pop
concerts, Cape Town Stadium
(and South Africa’s other large
stadiums built for the 2010 FIFA
World Cup) has special areas
The Baxter Theatre in Rondebosch for wheelchair-users and their

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