Sheffield Theatres are to stage a new production of Lionel Bart’s Oliver! at the Crucible Theatre this Christmas. The show, which will be directed by Sheffield Theatres artistic direct…
Sheffield Theatres will stage a new revival of Lionel Bart's perennially popular musical Oliver! this Christmas, helmed by artistic director Daniel Evans. The production opens in the Crucib…
Arthur Miller’s parable draws a chilling parallel between the Salem witch trials of 1692 and subsequent generations of American mass hysteria – up to the present. Through this sa…
Today in 1964, The Crucible opened at the Belasco Theatre, where it ran for 16 performances. The Crucible is a 1952 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatization of th…
Crucible Theatre, Sheffield: One hundred years ago DH Lawrence wrote that he was sick of rather bony, bloodless drama. Well, this <a href=" http://www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk/"&…
At The Hansberry Project, we present the work of Black playwrights. We produce Black plays. We produce Black plays because we believe that black theater artists"artfully expressing their obs…
Casting and further plans have been announced for the 2013 season at U.K.'s Sheffield Crucible and Lyceum Theatres by artistic director Daniel Evans.
The recent news that The Living Theatre was no more probably surprised more than a few theatregoers — because they probably hadn't realized the decades-old company was still in exi…
Broadway.com’s Countrywide Guide is your destination for the best in theatrical offerings around the country. This week, we go from Connecticut to Colorado with five fabulous theater p…
This drama about the sacking of a white-collar employee uses the bullfight as a powerful metaphor, writes Ian Shuttleworth
Crucible Studio Theatre, Sheffield: Water cooler politics are hung out to dry in Mike Bartlett's short, slick and emotionally unflinching new play in which two members of a sales team f…
January is the unofficial month of experimental downtown theater, what with the Under the Radar and Coil festivals in full swing. But they are not the only game in town. The Wild Project is …
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's Crucible-inspired drama Abigail/1702, which premiered last summer as part of the New York Stage and Film's 2012 Powerhouse season, will play the Cincinnati P…
According to the Daily Mail, the Crucible Theatre's production of My Fair Lady, starring Dominic West and Carly Bawden, is in the process of attempting an early summer West End transfer.
It's a perfect match, a marriage made in heaven. And I don't mean Dominic West's Henry Higgins and Carly Bawden's Eliza Doolittle. After all, they may not even get hitched.
Dominic West and Carly Bawden star in Daniel Evans' playful revival of the much-loved musical, Ian Shuttleworth writes
Crucible Lyceum Studio, Sheffield: As a Christmas production, Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady might be considered something of a risk. Read the full review
When Dominic West returned to the stage as Iago in his native Sheffield last year after achieving international TV success in The Wire, it was the performance of his co-star Lily James, then…
When Shelagh Delaney died last year aged 72 she was hailed as one of towering figures of post war British culture having seared the authentic voice of northern working class life into the co…
The Studio, Crucible Theatre, Sheffield: DC Moore's new play, an adaptation of a 2009 film called Humpday, by the US writer and director Lynn Shelton, turns out to be as much about male…
Crucible Theatre, Sheffield: There is a telling exchange in this first major revival since her death last year of Shelagh Delaney's 1950s drama A Taste Of Honey. "Will you stop sho…
Geoffrey Streatfeild makes Macbeth human without sapping him with sympathy in Daniel Evans' revival, Ian Shuttleworth writes
Crucible Theatre, Sheffield: Without doubt, 2012 has been the year of Macbeth. There have been Tunisian adaptations, blockbusting Polish versions set in the Middle East, a one-man show starr…
A series of scintillating moments elevated the Crucible's 40th birthday celebration of the Bard's spooky Scottish tragedy from the merely very good to the excellent.
I doubt if any modern play offers more visceral excitement than The Crucible