
We are delighted to welcome you back to the Market Theatre in 2011. Our staff is busy creating an extraordinary range of dramatic experiences for you on our stages - classics, new works, great South African stories and musical treasures. Our three venues are all located in Johannesburg’s historic fresh fruit and vegetable market and our theatre has been operating here continuously since 1976 and the Market Theatre is one of the major facilities in the city’s exciting Newtown district. Beyond live theatre, the Market Theatre Foundation also operates internationally ...

It is a great pleasure to welcome you to our new Internet website. I hope you will find that the new features and information will give you a much better understanding of our history, our present – and our future. Since its birth in that momentous year of 1976, the Market Theatre has become a crucial fixture in Johannesburg’s cultural and artistic life and – indeed – throughout South Africa and around the world. Many of the dramas that became emblematic of the struggle against apartheid first found a dramatic life on the stages of the Market Theatre. In the same way, many of the cou...