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2025 Theatre Partner

Sheffield Theatres

Our Theatre Partner for 2025 is Sheffield Theatres, who will have the first right of refusal to co-produce the winning play with Ellie Keel Productions and Paines Plough.

 

Sheffield Theatres is home to three theatres: the Crucible, the Sheffield landmark with a world-famous reputation; the Playhouse, an intimate, versatile space for getting closer to the action; and the gleaming Lyceum, the beautiful proscenium that hosts the best of the UK’s touring shows.

Having held the title ‘Regional Theatre of the Year’ on four separate occasions, Sheffield Theatres is the ticket to big names and local heroes, timeless treasures and new voices. Committed to investing in the creative leaders of the future, Sheffield Theatres’ dedicated talent development hub, The Bank, supports a new cohort of emerging theatre-makers every year.

Sheffield Theatres has a reputation for bold new work. Starting life in the Crucible in 2019, the award winning Life of Pi transferred to the West End in 2021 and to Broadway in 2023, returning home to Sheffield Theatres to launch its 2023 – 24 UK and Ireland tour. This success follows hit musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie which also transferred to the West End, toured the UK and enjoyed a feature film release internationally on Amazon Prime in 2021. Everybody’s Talking About Jamie returned to Sheffield on tour in 2024. In 2022, ROCK / PAPER / SCISSORS was staged across all three theatres to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Crucible and Playhouse, winning Best Directors at the UK Theatre Awards that year. Also during the anniversary year, the acclaimed Accidental Death of an Anarchist opened the newly named Tanya Moiseiwitsch Playhouse in September 2022. The show transferred to the West End in June 2023, winning a UK Theatre Award in the same year. Over Christmas 2022, Sheffield Theatres, in co-production with the National Theatre and Various Productions, revived Standing at the Sky’s Edge, returning the show to the Crucible before transferring to the Olivier Theatre and winning two Olivier awards including Best New Musical. The show transferred to the West End in February 2024.