Sheffield Theatres presents a Christmas production of The Wizard of Oz, starring Catrin Aaron Miss Gulch Wicked Witch, Jonathan Broadbent ZekeLion, Gabrielle Brooks Dorothy, Ryan Ellsworth …
Robert Hastie is currently Artistic Director of the Sheffield Theatres, following several years of directing in the West End. He discusses their upcoming Christmas production of The Wizard o…
Arthur Miller’s classic, The Crucible, is a dramatized and partially fictionalized play based upon the Salem Witch Trials during 1692/93. When taken at its simplest form, the plot center…
If there was one thing that the great American playwright Arthur Miller hated above all else, it was sanctimonious moral absolutism. "This is a sharp time, now, a precise time," says the ins…
FEAR FACTOR: 1692 = 2017 325 years ago, a witchhunt gave this continent one of its most chilling and cautionary cases of panic-peddling and persecution: In assorted "witch trials" the suppos…
Artistic director of Sheffield Theatres, Robert Hastie, presents Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms in his inaugural season. Sam Yates directs Olivier Award-winner Matthew Kelly in the r…
A bit of old writing advice has it that a story should start, not at the beginning, but in media res, right in the middle of things. The new play Abigail/1702 by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, curr…
"It's impossible not to be drawn into the atmosphere": John Murphy reviews Sam Yates' revival of Eugene O'Neill's classic tragedy at Sheffield's Crucible Theatre.
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When you enter the home of the Princeton Summer Theater to see The Crucible, you may wonder at first whether you've wandered into the right place. After all, Arthur Miller's legendary play t…
A compelling fusion of traditional fairy tales with contemporary society, What We Wished For, by Sheffield People's Theatre, follows the journey of community members in modern-day Sheffield,…
Steppenwolf Theatre Company has announced complete casting for the "The Rembrandt" and "The Crucible," the first two shows in the company's 2017-18 season. The Chicago premiere of "The Rembr…
Communication breakdown: John Murphy reviews Sheffield Crucible's revival of Nina Raine's Olivier-nominated 2010 play.
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