Elizabeth Newman will co-direct a major new version of the classic feel-good musical Summer Holiday as part of her first season as artistic director of Sheffield Theatres.
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Music Review: Standing at the Sky’s Edge – Original Live Cast Recording
Standing at the Sky’s Edge – Original Live Cast Recording (Pink Moon Records Ltd). Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩
Cast and creatives for Sheffield’s Miss Saigon
Sheffield Theatres has confirmed the full cast and creative team for the first regional non-replica production of Boublil and Schönberg’s haunting musical Miss Saigon.
She Loves Me – Crucible Theatre, Sheffield
She Loves Me continues at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield until 15 January 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Based upon Miklós László’s play Parfumerie, Joe Masteroff, Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick’s musical adaptation She Loves Me is an uplifting Christmas gift to us all this year. Ben Stones’ cleverly designed set […]
Cast announced for Sheffield Theatres’ She Loves Me
Sheffield Theatres has confirmed casting for artistic director Robert Hastie’s Christmas production of the 1960s romantic musical comedy She Loves Me at the Crucible. Hastie’s festive follow-up to his Christmas 2019 revival of another classic Broadway musical Guys and Dolls will feature that production’s leading lady Alex Young. Young, who returned to Sheffield in 2019 to […]
All-star line-up for Sheffield’s The Band Plays On
West End, stars Jocasta Almgill and Jodie Prenger will make their Sheffield Crucible debuts alongside a trio of returning stars for the upcoming filmed world premiere production of Sheffield Theatres’ The Band Plays On. Almgill (& Juliet, Manchester Opera House, Shaftesbury Theatre, Rent, Hope Mill Theatre) and Prenger (Oliver! Theatre Royal Drury Lane, A Taste […]
Crucible’s Christmas Kiss Me Kate – cast announced
Sheffield Theatres’ artistic director Robert Hastie has announced full casting details for Paul Foster’s major revival of Cole Porter’s classic Kiss Me, Kate, which is due to begin previewing at the Crucible from 7 December 2018. Due to run until 12 January 2019, with an opening night on 12 December, the new production of Porter’s […]
The Wizard of Oz – Crucible Theatre, Sheffield
The Wizard of Oz continues at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield until 20 January 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ How do you energise a show that is already etched into the memories of 80% of the audience: they enter the auditorium hearing the voice of Judy Garland, mouthing the words to […]
Interview – director Robert Hastie on catching the musical bug while staging The Wizard of Oz at Sheffield Theatres
This week Sheffield Theatres’ Christmas production of The Wizard Oz, directed by artistic director ROBERT HASTIE, will have its official opening at the Crucible Theatre. Hastie was born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire. His credits for the company include Julius Caesar (Best Director nomination for the 2017 UK Theatre Awards) and Of Kith and Kin (also Bush Theatre). His other theatre […]
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie to transfer to West End
Sheffield Theatres’ hit production of Dan Gillespie Sells and Tom MacRae’s Everybody’s Talking About Jamie is heading for the West End this November. Following on from the show’s successful premiere run at the Crucible in February, the production will arrive at the Apollo Theatre with previews from Monday 6 November ahead of a press night […]
Annie Get Your Gun at Sheffield Crucible – Anna-Jane Casey and Ben Lewis lead cast
Sheffield Theatres has revealed the cast for its major new revival of Irving Berlin’s Annie Get Your Gun, playing from 14 December, with previews from 8 December, and running until 14 January. Paul Foster directs Anna-Jane Casey as Annie Oakley and Ben Lewis as Frank Butler, with Nicolas Colicos (Buffalo Bill), Mike Denman (Pawnee Bill), Lauren Hall (Winnie […]
Interview – Clare Burt on Flowers for Mrs Harris and creating new work
Actress CLARE BURT (This is My Family, London Road) has returned to Sheffield Theatres to take on the title role in the world premiere of Flowers for Mrs Harris, Daniel Evans’ final production as artistic director at the venue (opening tonight, 23 May). The new musical by Richard Taylor (The Go-Between, Tom’s Midnight Garden) and Rachel Wagstaff (Birdsong, Moonshadow), based […]
Robert Hastie is new Sheffield Theatres artistic director
Actor-director Robert Hastie is to succeed Daniel Evans as artistic director of Sheffield Theatres. The appointment marks a homecoming for Hastie who began his professional theatre career at Sheffield Crucible as an actor in Edward Bond’s Lear in 2005. He will take up his new role in July, taking over from fellow actor-director Evans who is […]
Show Boat – Crucible Theatre, Sheffield
Show Boat continues at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield until 23 January. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The finest moment in Sheffield Theatres’ (Crucible) production of Show Boat is the result of an understated absence. In Act II, Julie LaVerne (Rebecca Trehearn), now raddled by drink, disappointment and who knows what else, hovers […]
Interview – Gina Beck embraces the sweeping melodies of Show Boat at the Crucible Sheffield
Show Boat, this year’s Christmas production at Sheffield Theatres, opens tonight (16 December). Spanning 40 pivotal years in American history, the epic musical by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II follows the lives and loves of three generations aboard a show boat as it plies the Mississippi River. Among those characters is Magnolia Hawks, played by actress and […]
Show Boat is Sheffield Theatres’ Christmas musical
This Christmas Sheffield Theatres artistic director Daniel Evans will direct Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II’s timeless masterpiece Show Boat on the Crucible stage. The musical will run from 10 December 2015–16 January 2016 (press night is 16 December). Evans said: “I’m thrilled to announce our autumn season. I’m looking forward to directing a seminal work of American musical theatre, Show Boat, our most ambitious Christmas production to […]
Anything Goes – Matt Rawle and Debbie Kurup lead Crucible cast
Artistic director of Sheffield Theatres Daniel Evans has announced the full cast for his production of Anything Goes at the Crucible which opens 8 December (previews from 28 November, and runs until 17 January), before touring the UK and Ireland, beginning at the New Wimbledon Theatre on 29 January 2015. Debbie Kurup (Reno Sweeney) and Matt Rawle (Billy Crocker) lead the company with Stephen Matthews (Lord Evelyn Oakley), Zoë Rainey (Hope Harcourt), Simon […]
Oliver! – Crucible Theatre, Sheffield
Oliver! continues at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield until 25 January, 2014. If I’m the one who’s reviewing the situation, the Crucible’s Oliver! could transfer to Broadway tomorrow. From top to bottom, it’s that good. It all starts – and ends – with director Daniel Evans and choreographer Alistair David. From ‘Food, Glorious Food’, a slick, […]
Hayley Gallivan in Oliver! at Sheffield Crucible
Actress Hayley Gallivan plays Nancy in Sheffield Crucible’s production of Lionel Bart’s musical Oliver! which opens this week. The musical is directed by the theatre’s award-winning artistic director Daniel Evans, who also staged the Crucible’s critically acclaimed productions of My Fair Lady and Tim Firth’s This is My Family (the latter won two UK Theatre Awards). […]
