Entertainment / Arts
Gule Wamkulu cultural gathering set for Harare
The Chamba Chamakholo Gule Wamkulu cultural gathering is set to take place in Mufakose, Harare, on September 29, featuring a vibrant display of Nyau c...Published: 10 Sep 2024 at 09:39hrs | 1432 | by Staff reporter
Extra Valembe, Jah and Chirambiwa share stage
Families in Guruve and it's surrounding places were mesmerized by Romeo Gasa's Extra Valembe, Jah Lemmy'...Published: 01 Sep 2024 at 11:53hrs | 114 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Matumbu bounces back
Mvurwi-based comedian Lloyd "Matumbu" Jack is back in the arts industry with his 14th drama titled Usavimbe nemunhu.Matumbu suffered major dra...Published: 12 Nov 2023 at 19:53hrs | 17 | by Simbarashe Sithole
All set for the 21st Old Mutual NAMA awards
The stage is set for the 21st National Arts Merit Awards (NAMA) powered by Old Mutual Zimbabwe tomorrow at the Harare International Conference Centre,...Published: 24 Feb 2023 at 22:01hrs | 2 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Guruve Arts Marimba ensemble leaves for India
Traditional group Guruve arts Marimba ensemble left on Thursday to India for the 36th Surajkundi interna...Published: 05 Feb 2023 at 06:31hrs | 3 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zimbabwean filmmaker selected for Prestigious Creative Producer Indaba
Fifteen diverse producers from around the globe have been selected to participate in the second Creative Producer Indaba (CPI) which takes place from ...Published: 12 Oct 2022 at 13:46hrs | 2 | by Agencies
Mugabe, My Dad and Me
Zimbabwean-born and now London-based actor Tonderai Munyevu tries to make sense of his roots, both familial and national, in his engaging show Mugabe,...Published: 05 Apr 2022 at 07:54hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Byo Arts Festival fails to pay artists
Bulawayo artists who performed at the arts festival that was held in June have bemoaned that they are byet to get paid for their services.The ...Published: 26 Sep 2021 at 09:53hrs | 4 | by Stephen Jakes
Bulawayo poet to launch album on Zupco bus
It's a listening session that can't be missed!Bulawayo actor-cum-poet Prince Ncube otherwise known as Mazilankatha in the local showbiz, is pl...Published: 24 Jun 2021 at 08:10hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Intwasa moved to 2021
THE organisers of Intwasa Arts Festival koBulawayo have postponed this year's edition of the arts and culture fete to next year due to the global COVI...Published: 10 Sep 2020 at 06:58hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi play invited for SA festival
A play about Gukurahundi titled Uloyiko has been selected to be part of the Youth Expressions Festival to be held in Pretoria, South Africa, in June....Published: 05 May 2019 at 10:50hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
uLoyiko ensemble to Premiere at Pretoria's Momentum State Theatre in South Africa
South African theatre ensemble, uLoyiko has informed umthwakazireview.com that it will premiere at Pretoria...Published: 23 Apr 2019 at 07:54hrs | 5 | by Thembani Dube
Amakhosi Theatre productions are back
After being disbanded for 12 years, the Amakhosi Cultural Centre - the country's biggest home of visual and performing arts - is set to re-launch its ...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 22:36hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Omkhula lament lack of arts promoters in Zimbabwe
South Africa-based Zimbabwean street comedians, Omkhula, say their fans in Zimbabwe should wait a little bit for shows as they are struggling to hold ...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 08:11hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
State of the nation under spotlight
SATIRICAL play, State of the Nation-Vortex, that highlights critical issues troubling the nation and a call for dialogue among citizens is set to be s...Published: 05 Feb 2019 at 06:41hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Carl Joshua Ncube plans Mukadota icon revival
COMEDIAN Carl Joshua Ncube says he wants to remake the iconic ZBCtv comedy drama series Mukadota that was a hit in the 80s. "This is still an ...Published: 26 Oct 2018 at 06:29hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Operation Restore Legacy invades SA
THE events of November last year when the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) carried out the famous "Operation Restore Legacy" will go down in history books...Published: 12 Aug 2018 at 09:51hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Amakhosi Cultural Theatre survives closure
BULAWAYO-BASED Amakhosi Cultural Theatre has survived closure after city fathers agreed to exempt the arts centre from paying rates to the local autho...Published: 02 Jul 2018 at 08:03hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Carl Joshua Ncube to debut solo show on Breeze FM
High flying entertainment entrepreneur Carl Joshua Ncube is set for another big milestone after getting his various content ideas to be put into a pod...Published: 15 Jun 2018 at 13:44hrs | 2 | by Agencies
Zimbabwe Fashion Showcase to take place in London in September
UK based clothing tradeshow, Zimbabwe Fashion Showcase has announced the date for the highly anticipated fashion exhibition of the year. The e...Published: 15 Jun 2018 at 13:43hrs | 4 | by Agencies
Bulawayo to host own Reed Dance
THE King Lobengula Royal Trust is set to hold a reed dance in Bulawayo between August and September to promote traditional culture.The reed da...Published: 15 Jun 2018 at 07:22hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Meet 'The Awards Mafia'
COMEDIAN Carl Joshua Ncube abruptly brought the Bulawayo arts scene down from the high of hosting the recently held Bulawayo Arts Awards when he sugge...Published: 10 Jun 2018 at 09:25hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Mafia gang stifles Bulawayo art'
COMEDIAN Carl Joshua Ncube has alleged that there is an eight-member "mafia" which is killing Bulawayo art by oppressing artistes from the city....Published: 08 Jun 2018 at 07:17hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
New 'Gukurahundi' play goes to Harare
Theatre in The Park will from Wednesday May 30 to June 2, 2018 host yet another politically loaded play, "1983 The Dark Years" after the successful ru...Published: 29 May 2018 at 18:46hrs | 4 | by Rooftop Promotions presser
The man who found Robert Mugabe's voice
WHEN he was told that he would be playing the country's former president Robert Mugabe in a play written and directed by some of Bulawayo's arts lumin...Published: 20 May 2018 at 09:49hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Cont Mhlanga scouts for partnership
Renowned playwright and filmmaker Cont Mhlanga of the Amakorokoza fame says the story of Otsheketsha (small scale miners) is a soap opera yet to be fu...Published: 10 May 2018 at 18:43hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Albert Nyathi, Cont Mhlanga settle dispute
TOP poet Albert Nyathi yesterday unveiled a Mzilikazi musical that previously set him on a collision course with theatre producer Cont Mhlanga and Sou...Published: 26 Apr 2018 at 08:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Youth lured into film production
ZIMBABWE International Film Festival Trust (ZIFFT) executive director Nigel Munyati last week urged the youth to take advantage of the new political d...Published: 16 Apr 2018 at 06:55hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
Iyasa takes act to Austria
TOP Bulawayo arts outfit, Iyasa, has left the country for Austria for their annual international tour and cultural exchange programme with a new dance...Published: 11 Apr 2018 at 07:12hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Play on Mugabe ouster to premiere in Bulawayo
FORMER President Robert Mugabe's life will be told on stage through a play called Robert, His Story History, to be premiered at the Bulawayo Theatre a...Published: 09 Apr 2018 at 07:13hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Maseko wants lift on Gukurahandi paintings ban
It's exactly three years since visual artist Owen Maseko lost his fight to exhibit the controversial Gukurahundi-inspired paintings at the Bulawayo Ar...Published: 04 Apr 2018 at 16:56hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zim poet commissioned to write poem for documentary funded by the National Lottery
UK based Zimbabwean spoken word artist, Munnya Usuwana has added another monumental project to his glowing CV after being commissioned to compose a po...Published: 03 Apr 2018 at 21:14hrs | 5 | by Tidi Kwidini
Restore Regasi cries out to Mnangagwa
AWARD-winning theatre practitioner Charles Munganasa has urged President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government to ensure that artists are free to express th...Published: 30 Mar 2018 at 08:44hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Uloyiko wins an award at the Zabalaza festival
"We are thrilled to have won an award, it is a great honour, we never set out to win an award, however, we are thankful and appreciative of the recogn...Published: 18 Mar 2018 at 19:05hrs | 2 | by Thulani Nkala
Operation Restore 'Regasi' play goes to Harare
President Emmerson Mnangagwa may be part of the audience set to watch Operation Restore 'Regasi', an 80-minute-long play that gives a comical account ...Published: 18 Mar 2018 at 08:55hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Watch what happens when Bulawayo filmmakers, new actors meet up
Ya-sibo? Media teamed up with local Bulawayo film-makers and hosted an Acting Workshop at Lalani Hotel and Conference Centre on the 29th of July 2017....Published: 12 Jan 2018 at 07:40hrs | 5 | by Staff Reporter
WATCH: Mugabe comedy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLVlfLVM2TE...Published: 10 Jan 2018 at 09:45hrs | 5 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwean woman launches 3rd issue of magazine in UK
Founded by Sakhile Classique Khanye and independently published by RMPublishers, the publication actually started as an online blogging platform befor...Published: 28 Nov 2017 at 23:33hrs | 3 | by Agencies
Embrace art, youths urged
A government official has urged youths to cherish study and learn to unlock the hidden educative meanings artworks covey.Provincial Youth Coor...Published: 28 Nov 2017 at 11:28hrs | 2 | by Farai Shawn Matiashe in Mutare
Bulawayo - Gweru Road today, a lovely picture
A Harare-based documentary photographer and videographer, Steven Chikosi, has captured a breathtaking image of Bulawayo - Gweru Road.Chikosi s...Published: 27 Nov 2017 at 11:06hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Harare meets London - 20 young women share their stories in images & poetic lines
This week, an exhibition of photographs and poetry by 20 young women from Harare and London opens in the Zimbabwean capital. The young women are takin...Published: 13 Nov 2017 at 11:21hrs | 4 | by Agencies
ULoyiko: prophecy or protest theatre?
Yesterday, 29th October 2017 will go down in history as a day ULoyiko play gained international acclaim. The Black Box theatre in Capetown was full to...Published: 31 Oct 2017 at 07:41hrs | 2 | by Thulani Nkala
Formalise art in education curricular: Artists
The Zimbabwe Applied Arts in Craft Association (ZAACA) is praying for Government's hand in improving artists and craftsmen working conditions. This, t...Published: 20 Oct 2017 at 10:13hrs | 3 | by Chigumbu Warikandwa
Woza Mthwakazi to premiere in Zimbabwe
A South African play - Woza Mthwakazi - which features local artists, will premiere during the Matabeleland Human Rights Convention at Amphi theatre i...Published: 03 Sep 2017 at 10:44hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
CARTOON: Conor Mcgregor meets Grace Mugabe
#GraceMugabe...Published: 30 Aug 2017 at 13:18hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Amagugu holds Heritage festival
Amagugu International Heritage Center held a Matobo Heritage Festival in Matobo district over the weekend, which attracted more than 150 participants ...Published: 27 Aug 2017 at 06:28hrs | 6 | by Stephen Jakes
Carl Joshua invades Asia
ONLY a few days after he was shortlisted among the best comedians in Africa, Carl Joshua Ncube has now set his eyes on Asia, where he has several gigs...Published: 21 Jul 2017 at 08:43hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Arts Awards winners - list
Outstanding Actress (Schools)Anita Moyo (Eveline Girls) Outstanding Actor (Schools)No...Published: 01 Jul 2017 at 18:55hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
All set for Bulawayo Arts Awards
Bulawayo City Hall in the City of Queens and Kings plays host to the inaugural ceremony of the much-anticipated Bulawayo Arts Awards (BAA) on Friday....Published: 25 Jun 2017 at 12:05hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Local poet ventures into poetry recording
Mutare - A local based published poet has dropped his first single spoken-word poetry track to cope with the reading culture which is now very low in ...Published: 28 May 2017 at 08:51hrs | 3 | by Farai Shawn Matiashe
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