{"id":414407,"date":"2025-09-10T23:59:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T23:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/414407\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T23:59:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T23:59:24","slug":"sheffield-theatres-welcomes-four-associate-theatre-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/414407\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheffield Theatres welcomes four associate theatre companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/sheffield1.jpg\" alt=\"Clockwise from top left: Forced Entertainment, Stand and Be Counted Theatre, the Bare Project and Roots Mbili Theatre. By Photo: Hugo Glendinning\/Smart Jervas Banda and Khaled Al-Jawad\/Smart Banda\" title=\"Clockwise from top left: Forced Entertainment, Stand and Be Counted Theatre, the Bare Project and Roots Mbili Theatre. By Photo: Hugo Glendinning\/Smart Jervas Banda and Khaled Al-Jawad\/Smart Banda\" class=\"aos-Image aos-W100\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Clockwise from top left: Forced Entertainment, Stand and Be Counted Theatre, the Bare Project and Roots Mbili Theatre. By Photo: Hugo Glendinning\/Smart Jervas Banda and Khaled Al-Jawad\/Smart Banda<\/p>\n<p>Sheffield Theatres has named four local theatre organisations its new associate companies, with Deborah Dickinson hired as creative development director to oversee the selected organisations<\/p>\n<p>THIS IS NOT A PAYWALL<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Serious about theatre?<\/strong><br \/>Join over 100,000 theatremakers who rely on The Stage for trusted news, reviews, and insight.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\ud83d\udd13 Sign in below or <a style=\"color: #00929e;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thestage.co.uk\/registration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">create a free account<\/a> to read 5 free articles.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Want to support independent theatre journalism? <a style=\"color: #00929e;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thestage.co.uk\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Subscribe<\/a><\/strong> from just \u00a37.99 and unlock:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\uddde\ufe0f Unlimited access to award-winning theatre journalism<\/p>\n<p>\u2b50 1000+ reviews from across the UK<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udce7 Breaking news and daily newsletters<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udca1Insight and opinion from writers including Lyn Gardner &amp; Amanda Parker<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf9f\ufe0fDiscounts and early access to The Stage\u2019s events<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clockwise from top left: Forced Entertainment, Stand and Be Counted Theatre, the Bare Project and Roots Mbili Theatre.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-414407","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}