Review: Translations (Sheffield Crucible)
Sheffield Theatres' Brian Friel season continues with a "gripping and vibrant" production of his 1980 play, Translations
Sheffield Theatres' Brian Friel season continues with a "gripping and vibrant" production of his 1980 play, Translations
The Crucible Theatre, Sheffield: A translator's power to convey truth or distortion is nowhere more deeply considered than in this powerful play, the second in Sheffield Theatres' …
Actor and director Richard Wilson, best known on TV for his role as Victor Meldrew in "One Foot in the Grave," is to star in Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape at Sheffield…
Scottish Ballet is to premiere a ballet version of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible by Canadian choreographer Helen Picket next autumn. The world premiere forms part of the company’s…
When the staff in the cloak room are humming the songs before you even get into the theatre, you know you’re in for a good show. Daniel Evans’s production of Oliver! is bursting …
Daniel Evans's production of Oliver! at the Crucible Theatre is impressive, says Jane Shilling
Crucible Theatre, Sheffield: Sheffield Theatres, recognised as The Stage's regional theatre of the year last January, proves yet again why it so deserved that honour with this glorious …
As a début play, Kieran Knowles’s Operation Crucible at the Finborough Theatre captures the hours around the Sheffield Blitz in 1940 with urgency and a pounding energy. Like the fi…
Sheffield Theatres will welcome Tom Edden as Fagin in Artistic Director Daniel Evans' production of Lionel Bart's Oliver. The production runs from today 29 November 2013 until Saturday 25 Ja…
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Crucible Theatre, Sheffield: Shakespeare's tale of sexual jealousy and loving reconciliation can require a leap faith from audiences buying into its fable-like mix of royal intrigue, ps…
Tom Edden, who was Tony-nominated for Best Performance by an Actor for a Featured Role in a Play for the Broadway transfer of One Man, Two Guvnors in 2012, will play Fagin in the new …
Sheffield's Crucible Theatre has announced casting for its forthcoming productions of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale and Lionel Bart's Oliver!
Arthur Miller's The Crucible was my favourite play when I was 17 and, along with Lillian Hellman, Miller was my favourite playwright. This play made me read the rest of his work and so…
Melbourne Theatre CompanyWatching " or, more precisely, listening to " Melbourne Theatre Company's production of The Crucible, it's striking how pertinent Arthur Miller's parable of social p…
Playwright and composer Tim Firth has emerged as inheritor of a British musical tradition laid down by Lionel Bart and Willy Russell. Director Daniel Evans meanwhile, is being seriously talk…
Crucible Studio, Sheffield: This Christmas, Daniel Evans, artistic director at Sheffield Theatres, will direct Lionel Bart's legendary 1960 British musical Oliver! on the main house Cru…
Presentational performances, aimed straight at the audience, are not only in the musicals The Scottsboro Boys, Sleepless in Seattle, Priscilla Queen of the Desert and Next tor Normal but als…
THE CRUCIBLE (ANTAEUS): 94% " SWEET SWEET Arthur Miller's dramatization of the Salem witch trials has rarely if ever seemed as timeless or proven as powerful as it does in The Antaeus Compan…
When The History Boys was first performed at the National Theatre in 2004 the reverential cupping of a sixth former's genitals by an appreciative retirement-age teacher was enough to elicit …
Crucible Theatre, Sheffield: The concluding production in the Crucible's Sheffield Season, a revival of Alan Bennett's celebrated play, makes a fitting companion piece to the first…
Shakespearean in dimension and craft, “The Crucible,” Arthur Miller’s 1953 play about the Salem witch trials, is inarguably a masterwork.Â
BEDEVILED An off-stage character is tortured by a Salem court in Arthur Miller's The Crucible, a play which dramatizes the Salem witch trials of 1692. As heavy stones are placed upon his che…
Antaeus always uses two casts per production, so why not two co-directors? Armin Shimerman and Geoffrey Wade helm the company's The Crucible.
Daniel Evans, artistic director of Sheffield Theatres, will direct a new production of Lionel Bart's Oliver! as this year's Christmas musical at the Crucible Theatre, beginning perfo…