Magnet Theatre was founded in 1987 to produce Cheap Flights (director: Roz Monat), starring Reznek.

It re-emerged in 1991 to produce The Show's Not over 'Til the Fat Lady Sings (director: Mark Fleishman), again starring Reznek.

These included eight collaborations with Cape Town-based Jazzart Dance Theatre between 1994 and 2007 (including Medea, Rain in a Dead Man's Footprints, and Cargo); stage adaptations of Herman Melville's Moby Dick (1994) and Mia Couto's Voices Made Night (2000/01); two performance pieces with Jennie Reznek (1997/2002); and four outdoor productions between 1998 and 2011.

[2] It was part of a focus on migration which included works in isiXhosa and Afrikaans: ingcwaba lendoda lise cankwe ndlela (2009) and Inxeba Lomphilisi (2010), both directed by Mandla Mbothwe, and Die Vreemdeling (director: Mark Fleishman).

Since then Magnet Theatre has produced five new Early Years works that have been performed in crèches and aftercare centres in Cape Town, the Cederberg Municipality, and Okiep.

One of the pieces, SCOOP: kitchen play for carers and babes (director: Koleka Putuma), was the first ever South African work for mothers/fathers and babies under the age of 12 months.