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Sheffield Theatres is a theatre complex in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. It comprises three theatres: the Crucible, the Lyceum and the Tanya Moiseiwitsch Playhouse. These theatres make up the largest regional theatre complex outside the London region and show a variety of in-house and touring productions.

Artistic Directors

• 1981 – 1992 – Clare Venables
• 1992 – 1994 – Michael Rudman
• 1995 – 2000 – Deborah Paige
• 2000 – 2005 – Michael Grandage
• 2005 – 2007 – Samuel West
• 2009 – 2016 – Daniel Evans
• 2016 – present – Robert Hastie

Production history

2017 productions

• Everybody's Talking About Jamie by Tom MacRae with music and lyrics by Dan Gillespie Sells directed by Jonathan Butterell
• Musical Differences by Robin French directed by George Richmond-Scott as part of National Theatre Connections
• Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare directed by Robert Hastie
• Tribes by Nina Raine directed by Kate Hewitt
• What We Wished For by Chris Bush with music by Claire McKenzie directed by Emily Hutchinson
• Desire Under The Elms by Eugene O'Neill directed by Sam Yates
• Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov translated by Peter Gill directed by Tamara Harvey in a co-production with Theatre Clwyd
• The Wizard Of Oz by L. Frank Baum with music and lyrics by Harold Arlen and E. Y. Haburg directed by Robert Hastie

2018 productions

• Chicken Soup by Ray Castleton and Kieran Knowles directed by Bryony Shanahan
• Frost/Nixon by Peter Morgan directed by Kate Hewitt
• The Changing Room by Chris Bush directed by Emily Hutchinson as part of National Theatre Connections
• The York Realist by Peter Gill directed by Robert Hastie in a co-production with The Donmar Warehouse
• Love And Information by Caryl Churchill directed by Caroline Steinbeis
• One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Dale Wasserman from the novel by Ken Kesey directed by Javaad Alipoor
• Songs From The Seven Hills by John Hollingworth with music and lyrics by Claire McKenzie and Scott Gilmour directed by Emily Hutchinson
• Steel by Chris Bush directed by Rebecca Frecknall
• A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare with music by Dan Gillespie Sells directed by Robert Hastie
• Close Quarters by Kate Bowen directed by Kate Wasserberg in a co-production with Out Of Joint
• Kiss Me, Kate by Sam Spewack and Bella Spewack with music and lyrics by Cole Porter directed by Paul Foster

2019 productions

• Rutherford & Son by Githa Sowerby directed by Caroline Steinbeis
• hang by debbie tucker green directed by Taio Lawson
• Stuff by Tom Wells directed by Emily Hutchinson as part of National Theatre Connections
• Standing At The Sky's Edge by Chris Bush with music and lyrics by Richard Hawley directed by Robert Hastie
• Life Of Pi by Lolita Chakrabarti from the novel by Yann Martel directed by Max Webster
• The Last King Of Scotland by Steve Waters from the novel by Giles Foden directed by Gbolahan Obisesan
• Reasons To Stay Alive by April De Angelis from the novel by Matt Haig directed by Jonathan Watkins
• My Mother Said I Never Should by Charlotte Keatley directed by Jeni Draper, a co-production with fingersmiths
• Guys And Dolls by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser based on a story and characters of Damon Runyon, and directed by Robert Hastie

2020 productions

• A Series of Public Apologies by John Donnelly, directed by Emily Hutchinson as part of National Theatre Connections
• Coriolanus by William Shakespeare, directed by Robert Hastie
• Run Sister Run by Chloe Moss, in a co-production with Paines Plough and Soho Theatre

2021 productions

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• The Band Plays On by Chris Bush, directed by Robert Hastie and Anthony Lau. Presented and distributed digitally
• Talent by Victoria Wood, directed by Paul Foster
• Typical Girls by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, directed by Róisín McBrinn
• The Golden Fleece by Olivia Hirst, directed by Alex Mitchell; a 18–25 Young Company production created in partnership with Silent Uproar
• She Loves Me by Joe Masteroff, music by Jerry Bock, and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick; directed by Robert Hastie

2022 productions

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• Anna Karenina, from Helen Edmundson's adaptation, directed by Anthony Lau
• Human Nurture by Ryan Calais Cameron, directed by Rob Watt; created in partnership with Theatre Centre
• Far Gone by John Rwothomack, directed by Mojisola Elufowoju; created in partnership with Roots Mbili
• Rock / Paper / Scissors, a trio of interwoven original plays by Chris Bush, performed simultaneously by one cast with three creative/production team
• How A City Can Save The World by Stockroom, directed by Tess Seddon
• Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare, directed by Robert Hastie; created in partnership with Ramps On The Moon
• Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo, in a new adaptation from Tom Basden, directed by Daniel Raggett
• The Contingecy Plan, two plays by Steve Waers performed in rep, directed by Caroline Steinbeis and Chelsea Walker
• Standing At The Sky's Edge by Chris Bush with music and lyrics by Richard Hawley directed by Robert Hastie

2023 productions

• The Good Person of Szechwan by Bertolt Brecht, in a new adaptation from Nina Segal, directed by Anthony Lau; created in partnership with Lyric Hammersmith and English Touring Theatre
• Birds & Bees by Charlie Josephine, directed by Rob Watt; created in partnership with Theatre Centre
• Wildfire Road by Eve Leigh, directed by Laura Keefe
• Miss Saigon by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, with lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby Jr.; directed by Robert Hastie and Anthony Lau in the first major non-replica staging of the musical
• Anna Hibiscus' Song by Atinuke, in an adaptation by Mojisola Elufowoju; created in partnership with Utopia Theatre
• We Could All Be Perfect by Hannah Morley, directed by Ruby Clarke
• The Hypochondriac by Moliere, from an adaptation by Roger McGough; directed by Sarah Tipple
• White Christmas by David Ives and Paul Blake, with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin; directed by Paul Foster

2024 productions

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• Wish You Weren't Here: a new play by Katie Redford directed by Theatre Centre Artistic Director Rob Watt; created in partnership with Theatre Centre
• Lines: created by Junaid Sarieddeen, John Rwothomack, Fidaa Zidan and Alexandra Aron with additional writing by Asiimwe Deborah Kawe; created in partnership with Roots Mbili and The Remote Theater Project
• The Crucible: by Arthur Miller and produced by Sheffield Theatres and staged in the iconic Crucible Theatre by Associate Artistic Director Anthony Lau

Pinter: A Celebration

Sheffield Theatres' programme Pinter: A Celebration took place from 11 October to 11 November 2006. The programme featured selected productions of Harold Pinter's plays, in order of presentation: The Caretaker, No Man's Land, Family Voices, Tea Party, The Room, One for the Road and The Dumb Waiter. These films (mostly his screenplays; some in which Pinter appears as an actor) were shown: The Go-Between, Accident, The Birthday Party, The French Lieutenant's Woman, Reunion, Mojo, The Servant and The Pumpkin Eater.

Pinter: A Celebration also included other related programme events: "Pause for Thought" (Penelope Wilton and Douglas Hodge in conversation with Michael Billington), "Ashes to Ashes – A Cricketing Celebration", a "Pinter Quiz Night", "The New World Order", the BBC Two documentary film Arena: Harold Pinter (introduced by Anthony Wall, producer of Arena), and "The New World Order – A Pause for Peace" (a consideration of "Pinter's pacifist writing" [both poems and prose] supported by the Sheffield Quakers), and a screening of "Pinter's passionate and antagonistic 45-minute Nobel Prize Lecture."