LOOKING for something to do in and around Sheffield today? Check out our 10 top things - plus other ideas for the next few days.
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1.Romeo and Juliet, High Storrs School present Shakespeare's great romantic tragedy as a postscript to the Children's Festival, City
Hall, Monday and Tuesday, 7pm (£7).
2.Alice, Lewis Carroll's classic tale translated to contemporary Sheffield by Laura Wade with Larkrise's Ruby Bentall in the title role, Crucible Theatre, Tudor Square, Tuesdays-Thursdays, 7.30pm (£17), Fridays and Saturdays, 7.30pm (£19), matinees, Saturday and Wednesday, 2.30pm (£12) until July 24.
3.That Face, Frances Barber as the alcoholic manic depressive mother in Polly Stenham's savage portrait of a family in crisis, directed by Richard Wilson, Crucible Studio, Tuesdays-Thursdays, 7.45pm (£12), Fridays and Saturdays, 7.45pm (£15), matinees, Saturday and Wednesday, 2pm (£10) until July 24.
4.Fantasia, song and dance from Rotherham (Area) Dance, Civic Theatre, Catherine Street, Rotherham, Tuesday-Friday, 7pm (£8.50, 01226 321429).
5.Summer Showtime, by child and adult students of the Velma Furniss School of Theatre Dance, University Drama Studio, Monday and Tuesday, 7.15pm (£6, 2400011).
6.Haris Epaminonda, first solo exhibition in a UK public gallery by the Cypriot born artist Haris Epaminonda who works in a variety of media from collage to installation with videos being composed out of disparate found film footage as well as the artist s own filmed sequences, Site Gallery, Brown Street, Tuesdays-Saturdays, 11am-5.30pm until August 21, running parallel with showing of new work at Tate Modern.
7.Mid Summer Madness Sale, variation on the long-established winter Under the Bed sale where artists offer work they consider to be not current or out of date, slight seconds or sketchbook work, at knockdown prices, Cupola Gallery, Middlewood Road, Hillsborough, Tuesdays-Saturdays, 10am-6.30pm, Sundays, 11am-4pm until August 29
8.Sheffield Flower Festival Week, displays in the Tudor Turret House with live Tudor music, Flower Trails through the historic site and a chance to meet Tudor costumed characters and talk to an archaeologist about the digs in progress, well dressings on the ancient well, floral displays amongst the romantic ruins, plant fair, children's activities, professional demonstrations of Tudor flower arrangements and the return of the bunnies to their warren home in the ancient deer park, cafe and refreshments, Manor Lodge, Manor Lane, to Friday, 10am-4pm (£3, £1.50 children, 2672828).
9.The Café Band, popular annual visitors tango into the movies this year in the company of the likes of Kern, Bernstein, Mancini and Shostakovich. Palace Hotel, Tuesday, 3pm £18).
10.Lynn Shepherd, reveals the process behind turning Jane Austen into a crime writer who wrote Murder at Mansfield Park with a surprisingly transformed Fanny Price. Lee Wood Hotel, Tuesday, 3pm (£6).
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