Sheffield Theatres Artistic Director Elizabeth Newman and CEO Tom Bird have introduced particulars of the 2026/27 season.
With this newly introduced season, Sheffield Theatres continues to develop within the energy and scale of its ambition to have interaction audiences and artists throughout its 4 auditoria, foyers, rehearsal rooms, throughout town and past.
An bold season of classics alongside 5 world premieres will welcome audiences throughout the Sheffield Theatres phases. This features a double-bill of Shakespeare within the Crucible with two main new productions dropped at the stage by an organization of actors throughout each titles. The firm shall be joined by display screen and stage stars Mathew Horne in Twelfth Night directed by Jamie Glover (Measure for Measure), and Ian McDiarmid in King Lear directed by Donmar Warehouse Associate Artistic Director Titas Halder (The Dance of Death) in affiliation with MGC, which marks a reunion for Sheffield Theatres and former Artistic Director Michael Grandage. Olivier Award-winner Jonathan Church (The Drifters Girl) will return to Sheffield Theatres with the sure-fire splash-hit Singin’ within the Rain whichwill delight audiences within the Crucible over the festive interval.
Set in Yorkshire and based mostly on the acclaimed e-book, the world premiere of The Ballroom will mark the return of the Director of Everybody’s Talking About Jamie to Sheffield Theatres. The manufacturing is created and staged by Jonathan Butterell, Kevin Clifton (Strictly Come Dancing) and Anna Hope. Dates and additional particulars shall be introduced quickly.
As at all times, Sheffield Theatres’ programming brings collectively locally-rooted productions with world tales. The world premiere of Ugandan born and Sheffield bred and based mostly John Rwothomack’s Never Look Back (Lines) is a retelling of the East and Southern African troopers who fought for the Commonwealth in World War II, dropped at the stage in a co-production with Sheffield Theatres’ Associate Company Roots Mbili Theatre. Sheffield Theatres collaborates with English Touring Theatre and Graeae with the world premiere of 12 Letters To My Name by Sheffield’s Lettie Precious (This is Us), telling the story of two African schoolchildren who’ve lately made Sheffield their house. The world premiere of the stage adaptation of Sunjeev Sahota’s (The Spoiled Heart) novel The Year of the Runaways is directed by Artistic Director Elizabeth Newman and tailored by playwright Stephanie Street (Sisters), offered in affiliation with Ranga Shankara.
This autumn, Open Works, a first-of-its-kind competition for Sheffield Theatres, will rejoice artists from throughout South Yorkshire and past in a coming collectively of creatives that may increase Sheffield as a vacation spot for discovery. A brand new technology of expertise will even take to the stage as Sheffield Theatres’ Youth Theatre current the world premiere of The Trip by Janys Chambers (North and South), created in collaboration with its younger members and creatives. The Women’s Prize for Playwriting 2025 winner, Sapling by Georgina Duncan shall be produced at Sheffield Theatres, the brand new venue companion of the Prize, in co-production with Paines Plough and the Women’s Prize for Playwriting. Sapling is a young and darkly comic story, which follows a younger man coping with the pains of adolescence and the lingering shadow of grief in Nineties Belfast.
After a sold-out West End run, KENREX opens on Broadway this April and Everybody’s Talking About Jamie shall be touring the UK as soon as once more, celebrating ten years because it first burst onto the Crucible stage. Looking into subsequent 12 months, Sheffield Theatres continues to develop world partnerships, together with the affiliation with Ranga Shankara in Bengaluru, India, a collaboration rooted in trade, studying and shared ambition.
Sheffield Theatres’ Artistic Director, Elizabeth Newman mentioned: “As we proceed to create and share our present season of labor – my first as Artistic Director – I’m so excited to announce information of the subsequent season for Sheffield Theatres.
“Over the approaching months, we’re planning to throw our doorways open wider than ever earlier than. We’ll be staging daring classics alongside 5 world premieres, heralding huge musicals alongside launching our very first Open Works Festival. We’re championing Sheffield artists subsequent to world voices – making our phases locations of discovery, ambition and pleasure for audiences right here within the metropolis and past.
“It’s an exciting time, and we cannot wait to make more magic in Sheffield.”
CEO Tom Bird added: “We’re thrilled to be saying this extraordinary season of labor, the ambition of which underlines Sheffield Theatres’ standing as a beacon of large-scale, high-quality produced theatre.
“From new productions of world-changing classics, through a much-adored musical, to sparkling new plays and adaptations, our 2026/27 season contains an exhilarating variety of world-class theatre. We can’t wait to welcome audiences from across our region and beyond to enjoy these wonderful shows in our famous theatres.”
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