# Sheffield Theatres

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Sheffield Theatres is a theatre complex in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. It comprises four theatres: the Crucible, the Lyceum, the Tanya Moiseiwitsch Playhouse, and (as of January 2025) the Montgomery Theatre. 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 – 2024 – Robert Hastie
* 2024 – present – Elizabeth Newman

## 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

Source:
* 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

Source:
* 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

Source:
* 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."