The Curious Case of Katherine Sinclair — a new musical thriller, July 2026 at The Star Theatre
The Case File

Every suspect has a song.
Every alibi has a dance number.

Socialite Katherine Sinclair has been murdered, her body has vanished, and the suspect list runs longer than her cocktail tab — a flamboyant detective, a haughty husband, a parade of lovers and a fawning friend who is very difficult to pin down.

A murderous, musical whodunit that blurs the line between crime scene and cabaret stage. Across fractured timelines and reimagined hits from Rihanna to Amy Winehouse, it’s stylish, irreverent, and just a little bit dangerous.

With a killer score and razor-sharp choreography, The Curious Case of Katherine Sinclair invites you into a world where the spotlight is a weapon and the truth is always in the last place you'd look.

Created by Megan Armstrong-Davies and Stephan Fourie, it's a deliberately lean, actor-driven answer to an era of bloated mega-productions — proof that in a landscape obsessed with scale, the sharpest weapon is still a good idea and a great cast.

The Evidence

Mark your calendar, darling.

Location
Star Theatre
at the Homecoming Centre
Dates
1st-5th July 2026
Limited run
Genre
Musical Thriller
Crime noir · Pop · Cabaret
Rating
PG-13
Mild peril & sequin violence
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The Suspects

Who killed Katherine Sinclair?

Four performers. One body. Multiple motives. The lights go up — and so do the alibis.

Starring

Megan Armstrong-Davies

as Katherine Sinclair

A mezzo-soprano with a dynamic presence on the Cape Town musical theatre scene — and the unusual distinction of having made her stage debut at 42. Audiences and critics have taken note of her vocal richness and her flair for character work, most memorably in the one-woman production of Shirley Valentine.

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Off-stage, she runs a small orphanage in Khayelitsha and somehow also raises four children, which may explain the stamina.

In The Curious Case of Katherine Sinclair, Megan appears as the rather venal — and faintly menacing — Katherine herself, a role she has also co-written and co-produced, lest anyone accuse her of doing things by halves.

Starring

Stephan Fourie

as Det. Philip Mortimer

A producer, creative director, and occasional menace on stage, known for his sharp wit, commanding presence, and an alarming enthusiasm for character-driven storytelling. As the force behind Curated Event, his work blurs the line between performance and spectacle.

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He is no stranger to the Star Theatre, having created recent and critically reviewed productions of The Great Gatsby and The Secret Garden, both of which were attended by consenting audiences.

In The Curious Case of Katherine Sinclair, Stephan takes on multiple disciplines, though it is his turn as Detective Philip Mortimer — a man who appears to enjoy the investigation rather more than protocol would recommend — that brings his particular brand of theatrical mischief into sharp focus.

Starring

Amy Reed

as Marjorie

A performer and professional multitasker, raised in a family of musicians and trained at The Drama Lab and Luitingh Alexander Musical Theatre Academy, where she graduated in 2020. When not on stage, she fronts Dead at the Box Office, a punk band whose name is, regrettably, not autobiographical.

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Her credits include Apoca-Lips (SixtyNine Theatre), Wicked of Oz (The Mirage), Feeling Pretty: The Musical (Edinburgh Fringe, NAF, SixtyNine Theatre, Kalk Bay Theatre), Melomania (Kalk Bay Theatre), and Rouge (Kalk Bay Theatre).

Performing on the Homecoming Centre stage has long been on her list, and she is especially delighted to be doing it in a production being built from the ground up.

Starring

Daniel von Hoesslin

as Patrick Sinclair & others

A medical doctor working predominantly in emergency medicine and surgery, who for this production has agreed to swap the operating theatre for the actual theatre. A lifelong devotee of music and musical theatre, he most recently appeared on the Artscape stage in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado.

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Daniel brings a powerful bass-baritone and a chameleon-like turn across four characters and a great many costume changes — chief among them Patrick Sinclair, the long-suffering (or so he might have you believe) husband to Katherine, alongside a litany of her lovers.

Is he the murderer? Is he merely a pawn? One thing is for sure: he is playing this one very close to the vest.

Don't leave the scene.

Tickets are on sale now. Star Theatre, Cape Town — July 2026.

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