Andrew is an Arts and Culture reporter, a trained theater, music and film critic. In the past, he has served as a jury member for various film festivals and is one of the co-founders of African Movie Night Kampala and founder of the annual Nteredde Documentary Showcase.
It is hard to remember the first encounter with Mariam Ndagire as an artist. It was probably through music, theatre, or both; Mariam Ndagire is from a generation that popularised music and theatre; they created songs for their...
Phillip Luswata - "the one from Uganda" The first time I learned about Phillip Luswata was on a black and white TV. Then, he was a guest on the South African evening daily soap, Egoli: Place of Gold....
John Ssegawa’s Golden Calabash, Ekimala Ebita Embuga opened at the National Theatre in Kampala running during the Christmas season from 23rd to 26th December 2023. The theatre spent 2023 trying to find solutions to its predicament; questions have...
If there is one thing many theatre practitioners around the world seem to agree on, it is that the art seems threatened. Alternative entertainment options like cinema, television, bars, and the internet pose a threat to it. Most...
You have heard of Kalundi Serumanga. You have heard of the Ugandan terror in the 1970s. You have definitely heard of Idi Amin. If all the above is true for you there is a chance Come Good Rain...
Nabaggala Lillian Maximilian has outdone herself by covering a lot of ground recently. A few months ago, she premiered a dance theatre production, Nambi, and exhibited a short film, Faded in Berlin. And barely a month after the...
The Kampala International Theatre Festival (KITF) will open on November 22 in Uganda. This will be the festival’s 10th edition since their first one ten years ago. On September 26, 2014, Jean Paul Delore’s Ster City premiered at...
Leonard Okware has been making theatre companies at the national theatre in Uganda look good for the past 39 years. Theatre lighting design has a major influence on setting the tone and mood of any theatre production. It...
National Theatre, Kampala played host to Batalo East Foundation's 2023 dance offering, Nambi, the African Sheildmaiden. From the way the theatre foyer was designed, the grass thatch, the imaginery African mediaval, it was clear it was more than...
Last weekend, Uganda’s only National Theatre was the venue for Charles Mulekwa’s comeback project, Man to Man, an ode to friendship. It was a quieter affair than the previous two weeks when the show played out at the...
