{"id":823892,"date":"2026-03-13T21:58:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T21:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/823892\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T21:58:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T21:58:22","slug":"sheffield-theatres-announces-2026-27-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/823892\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheffield Theatres announces 2026\/27 season"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sheffield Theatres<\/strong>\u00a0Artistic Director\u00a0Elizabeth Newman<\/strong>\u00a0and CEO\u00a0Tom Bird<\/strong>\u00a0have announced details of the 2026\/27 season.<\/p>\n

With this newly announced season, Sheffield Theatres continues to grow in the strength and scale of its ambition to engage audiences and artists across its four auditoria, foyers, rehearsal rooms, across the city and beyond.<\/p>\n

An ambitious season of classics alongside five world premieres will welcome audiences across the Sheffield Theatres stages. This includes a double-bill of Shakespeare in the Crucible with two major new productions brought to the stage by a company of actors across both titles. The company will be joined by screen and stage stars Mathew Horne in\u00a0Twelfth Night\u00a0<\/strong>directed by Jamie Glover\u00a0(Measure for Measure), and Ian McDiarmid\u00a0in\u00a0King Lear<\/strong>\u00a0directed by Donmar\u00a0Warehouse Associate Artistic Director Titas Halder\u00a0(The Dance of Death) in association with MGC, which marks a\u00a0reunion\u00a0for Sheffield Theatres and\u00a0former Artistic Director Michael Grandage. Olivier Award-winner Jonathan Church (The Drifters Girl) will return to Sheffield Theatres with the sure-fire splash-hit\u00a0Singin\u2019 in the Rain\u00a0<\/strong>whichwill delight audiences in the Crucible over the festive period.<\/p>\n

\"\"Photo courtesy of Sheffield Theatres<\/p>\n

Set in Yorkshire and based on the acclaimed book, the world premiere of\u00a0The Ballroom<\/strong>\u00a0will mark the return of the Director of\u00a0Everybody\u2019s Talking About Jamie\u00a0to Sheffield Theatres. The production is created and staged by Jonathan Butterell, Kevin Clifton (Strictly Come Dancing) and Anna Hope. Dates and further details will be announced soon.<\/p>\n

As always,\u00a0Sheffield Theatres\u2019 programming brings together locally-rooted productions with global stories. The world premiere of Ugandan born and Sheffield bred and based John Rwothomack\u2019s\u00a0Never Look Back<\/strong>\u00a0(Lines) is a retelling of the East and Southern African soldiers who fought for the Commonwealth in World War II, brought to the stage in a co-production with Sheffield Theatres\u2019 Associate Company Roots Mbili\u00a0Theatre. Sheffield Theatres collaborates with English Touring Theatre and Graeae\u00a0with the world premiere of\u00a012 Letters To My Name<\/strong>\u00a0by Sheffield\u2019s Lettie Precious (This is Us), telling the story of two African schoolchildren who have recently made Sheffield their home. The world premiere of the stage adaptation of Sunjeev\u00a0Sahota\u2019s (The Spoiled Heart) novel\u00a0The Year of the Runaways\u00a0<\/strong>is directed by Artistic Director Elizabeth Newman and adapted by playwright Stephanie Street (Sisters), presented in association with Ranga Shankara.<\/p>\n

\"\"Photo courtesy of Sheffield Theatres<\/p>\n

This autumn,\u00a0Open Works<\/strong>, a first-of-its-kind festival for Sheffield Theatres, will celebrate artists from across South Yorkshire and beyond in a coming together of creatives that will expand Sheffield as a destination for discovery. A new generation of talent will also take to the stage as Sheffield Theatres\u2019 Youth Theatre present the world premiere of\u00a0The Trip<\/strong>\u00a0by Janys\u00a0Chambers (North and South), created in collaboration with its young members and creatives. The Women\u2019s Prize for Playwriting 2025 winner,\u202f\u00a0Sapling\u202f<\/strong>\u00a0by Georgina Duncan will be produced at\u202fSheffield\u202fTheatres, the new venue partner of the Prize, in co-production with Paines\u00a0Plough and the Women\u2019s Prize for Playwriting.\u202fSapling\u202fis a tender and darkly funny story, which follows a young man dealing with the pains of adolescence and the lingering shadow of grief in 1990s Belfast.<\/p>\n

\"\"Photo courtesy of Sheffield Theatres<\/p>\n

After a sold-out West End run,\u00a0KENREX\u00a0opens on Broadway this April and\u00a0Everybody\u2019s Talking About Jamie\u00a0will be touring the UK once again, celebrating ten years since it first burst onto the Crucible stage. Looking into next year, Sheffield Theatres continues to develop global partnerships, including the association with Ranga Shankara\u00a0in Bengaluru, India, a collaboration rooted in exchange, learning and shared ambition.<\/p>\n

Sheffield Theatres\u2019 Artistic Director,\u00a0Elizabeth Newman<\/strong>\u00a0said:\u00a0\u201cAs we continue to create and share our current season of work \u2013 my first as Artistic Director \u2013 I\u2019m so excited to announce news of the next season for Sheffield Theatres.<\/p>\n

\u201cOver the coming months, we\u2019re planning to throw our doors open wider than ever before. We\u2019ll be staging bold classics alongside five world premieres, heralding big musicals alongside launching our very first Open Works Festival. We\u2019re championing Sheffield artists next to global voices \u2013 making our stages places of discovery, ambition and joy for audiences here in the city and beyond.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an exciting time, and we cannot wait to make more magic in Sheffield.\u201d<\/p>\n

CEO\u00a0Tom Bird<\/strong>\u00a0added:\u00a0\u201cWe\u2019re thrilled to be announcing this extraordinary season of work, the ambition of which underlines Sheffield Theatres\u2019 status as a beacon of large-scale, high-quality produced theatre.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom 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\u2019t wait to welcome audiences from across our region and beyond to enjoy these wonderful shows in our famous theatres.\u201d<\/p>\n

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