The Playhouse Company is Ethekwini’s premier theatre organization, based at the Playhouse theatre complex in Smith Street in the heart of the coastal city of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal on the Eastern Seaboard of South Africa.
The historic Playhouse Opera theatre with its ornate Elizabethan décor and atmospheric ‘starry sky’, is one of South Africa’s most famous performance venues. Host to generations of stage legends, this is truly KZN’s ‘grand old lady’ of showbiz.
It seats 1224 guests with top class sound end lighting. The adaptable orchestra pit has three configurations that accomadates up to 85 musicians.
The drama theater that was once ‘Durban’s most luxurious cinema’ was transformed into a state-of-the-art venue second to none for live performances of excellence. It seats up to 464 guests with top class sound and lighting. The venue can also be converted into a ‘theatre in the round’. It is ideal for mid-sized productions, conferences, presentations, product launches, etc. With an orchestra pit for up to 25 musicians.
The theater has another performance room called ‘The Loft’. This versatile performance space is ideally designed and equipped for intimate theatre and stage works of an experimental nature. It seats up to 136 guests with variable stage and seating arrangements with a multitude of uses.
