Theatre and Comedy

A new play about asylum seekers by Sheffield writer James Stone has its professional premiere at the Library Theatre this weekend.

Danny Mac is known as a soap actor who nearly won Strictly and now is starring in the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, Sunset Boulevard, which comes to the Sheffield Lyceum next week.

A three-hander originally in French has proved the unlikely ingredients for a global hit that is still going strong after more than 20 years.

A rambling group set up to help improve the health and well being of Sheffield’s BME community has inspired a play which comes to the Crucible Studio next week.

Northern Ballet’s production of Jane Eyre, nominated for the South Bank Sky Arts Dance Award 2017, comes to the Sheffield Lyceum next week.

After playing to enthusiastic reviews at the Donmar Warehouse, Peter Gill’s 2001 play about the north-south divide appropriately has arrived in Sheffield for the remainder of its run.

Lesley Nicol, who found fame as Mrs Patmore the cook on Downton Abbey, finds herself in a Yorkshire kitchen again in The York Realist which arrives at the Crucible Theatre next week.

A Sheffield youth theatre group have chosen the very apt setting of the Winter Garden for their production of Stephen Sondheim’s musical Into The Woods.

It is not unusual for comedians to gravitate to acting roles, as we were reminded this week that the late great Ken Dodd was once in Twelfth Night.

Get ready to sham-rock the night away, as St Patrick’s Day celebrations take over the city this weekend!

Sir Ken Dodd, master of tickling sticks, Diddy Men and tattifilarious comedy, reduced fans to helplessness with his bucktoothed grin, a shake of the through-a-hedge-backwards hair and a cry of "How tickled I am".

The combination of a feel-good story set to the music of Abba has proved irresistible since opening in 1999 in the West End, where it still going strong, and now Mamma Mia! is enjoying a three-week sell-out run in Sheffield.

A travelling theatre company who produce plays based on people power is bringing its latest show to the Crucible next month.

Sheffield Theatres has announced its packed new season of shows to take centre stage throughout 2018 and into 2019 including plays, sensational musicals and traditional dramas.

We went to the opening of the exhibition of “AMA Y BEBE” by Marta Soul, a notable Spanish photographer who is starting to work in the UK as well.

When Peter Morgan’s play transferred from the West End to Broadway, the Americans wanted to call it Nixon/Frost. They had a point beyond pure jingoism because it is the former US President who dominates the drama, and this is especially so here thanks to an extraordinary performance by Jonathan Hyde who uncannily inhabits Tricky Dicky in voice, facial expression and physical gesture without it being an impersonation.

Don Giovanni