Ruth Deller is variously an academic, an am dram enthusiast, a television watcher, a Kylie fan and a vegetarian.
December 14, 2014
The annual Lyceum pantomime offers a good mix of classic panto jokes and contemporary song and dance numbers.
December 14, 2014
Sheffield Theatres celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Cole Porter musical with a production that definitely gives a kick.
November 6, 2014
A brand new work by Bryony Lavery opens in the Crucible Studio to mark 30 years since the miners' strike.
October 15, 2014
Tim Firth's award-winning musical plays in the newly refurbished Lyceum Theatre
September 26, 2014
The English Touring Theatre/Sheffield Theatres co-production is a vibrant take on Shakespeare's classic romcom.
July 21, 2014
Anarchic fun for all in this stage version of the popular children's book series.
July 17, 2014
The new, Sheffield-themed, take on the Mystery Plays makes the most of its huge cast of locals.
June 19, 2014
The stage adaptation of Jacqueline WIilson's novel is a lovingly put-together blend of comedy, tragedy and circus performance.
June 17, 2014
The 1980s sitcom revival tour hits Sheffield
June 7, 2014
Every Day theatre company's The Love Project, which has recently completed its tour across the UK, is an hour-long one-act production that explores different attitudes to love. It's a verbatim piece which uses dialogue and body language from interviews with a range of real-life testimonies.
May 21, 2014
Eclipse Theatre Company's production of the Tony Award-winning Sizwe Banzi is Dead is currently on a brief national tour after its Young Vic run. The 95-minute one-act play focuses on the lives of two men - Styles and Sizwe Banzi - in apartheid-era South Africa.
May 20, 2014
It makes a change for a farce to take centre stage at the Crucible, but Sheffield Theatres are celebrating this summer with their take on Boeing Boeing, Marc Camoletti's classic comedy about a man trying to keep up three relationships with air hostesses
May 18, 2014
The National Theatre's production of One Man, Two Guvnors is currently on an extensive tour of the country. This version stars Gavin Spokes as Francis Henshall, the man caught between two guvnors, and he is ably supported by a cast of familiar faces, including three former EastEnders stars (Jasmyn Banks as Pauline, Shaun Williamson as Charlie and Emma Barton as Dolly).
May 8, 2014
30 years since the miners' strikes, this touring production of Brassed Off offers the audience much to laugh at, much to ponder and a good dollop of brass band music.
April 2, 2014
Jonathan Watkins' moving dance adaptation of the Yorkshire classic soars in Sheffield.
February 19, 2014
The centrepiece of Sheffield Theatres' Brian Friel season is a thoughtful and sensitive take on his classic play about language and culture.
February 2, 2014
Propeller's A Midsummer Night's Dream (currently touring along with The Comedy of Errors) is a riotous spectacle of a production. The dreamworld is emphasised throughout with the fairies (all in white, wearing a combination of corsets and codpieces) providing visual and musical beats throughout - and the white camoflague nets and suspended chairs adding to the sense of surreal, otherworldliness.
January 24, 2014
Third Angel's latest production is a thoughtful presentation on what it means to have an 'ordinary' life, slightly marred by a clumsy ending.
January 16, 2014
Phil Porter's one-act, two-handed play Blink earned a number of warm reviews in its 2012 runs in Soho and Edinburgh, and is now on tour throughout the UK in March. The play tells the unconventional story of Jonah (Thomas Pickles) and Sophie (Lizzy Watts) whose lives have a number of significant parallels. They meet in unusual circumstances and things get stranger from there...
December 17, 2013
The Christmas musical is fast becoming one of the highlights of Sheffield Theatres' programme. Last year's My Fair Lady was a sell-out crowd-pleaser that earned a range of plaudits. So how does Sheffield Crucible's production of Oliver! compare?
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