Cape Performing Arts Board

It was one of the four state-funded performing arts councils in the four former provinces of South Africa instituted in 1963.

In 1961, the National Theatre Organisation was disbanded and replaced by four provincial performing arts councils.

CAPAB opened the Nico Malan Theatre Centre on 19 May 1971,[2] to be programmed and managed as a production house with four arts companies – orchestra, opera, ballet and drama.

In line with the new South African the political dispensation and the concurrent changes, the complex was renamed the Artscape Theatre Centre in March 2001.

[1] The CAPAB Drama Department staged its last production in May 1997 with a final performance of David Mowat's The Guise, a play which has the survival of the theatre as its theme.