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The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, starring Jill Halfpenny (After the Flood), Francesca Mills (Silent Witness) and Paul Chuckle (The Madam Blanc Mysteries), comes to Sheffield in a major new production of Jim Cartwright’s modern classic. Alone in the sanctuary of her small bedroom, Little Voice fills the air with pitch‑perfect renditions of her deceased dad’s prized record collection of the great Divas, from Judy Garland to Billie Holiday. But when her mother Mari’s latest fling, local wheeler dealer Ray, hears her sing he’s certain he’s struck gold. Will Little Voice be pushed into a spotlight she never asked for? A joyful, tender and bittersweet celebration of music, ambition and the courage it takes to be heard. Directed by National Theatre Deputy Artistic Director and former Artistic Director of Sheffield Theatres Robert Hastie (Standing at the Sky’s Edge). From Tuesday 9 – Saturday 13 February 2027.

Following sell-out tours of Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile, Fiery Angel reunites with director Lucy Bailey to bring this darkly seductive new staging of one of Agatha Christie’s most compelling mysteries The Hollow, from Tuesday 23 – Saturday 27 March 2027. At The Hollow, an elegant country estate, a glamorous circle of guests gather together one summer evening. But beneath the sunlit charm, something darker coils. A body is discovered. A smoking revolver in an unsteady hand. The scene appears almost staged; a shockingly straightforward crime… It is anything but. Renowned detective Hercule Poirot expected a quiet break in the country; instead he’s drawn into one of the most unsettling cases of his career. 

Acclaimed actor, author and podcaster Giovanna Fletcher stars in the world stage premiere of Before I Go To Sleep, based on the international bestselling novel by S.J Watson which became a hit film starring Nicole Kidman. Christine appears to have an idyllic life – with one terrible exception: every night, when she goes to sleep, she loses her memory. Each morning she wakes up remembering nothing from the last 20 years of her life, not even the loving husband lying next to her. As she desperately tries to piece her world back together, hidden and terrifying truths begin to emerge, forcing her to question everything and everyone around her. From the team behind the hugely successful stage adaptation of The Girl on the Train, this tense, fast-paced psychological thriller explores the fragile vulnerability of memory, identity and trust, running from Tuesday 30 March – Saturday 3 April 2027.

Told through breath-taking ballet and heart-wrenching storytelling, Northern Ballet’s Wuthering Heights sweeps into a haunting world of romance and revenge from Tuesday 6 – Saturday 10 April 2027. On the wild Yorkshire moors, love isn’t tender. It’s ravenous. Passionate and obsessive, Cathy and Heathcliff’s love is a force of nature – beautiful, brutal and impossible to escape. Choreographed by David Nixon CBE and set to original music by celebrated composer Claude-Michel Schönberg (West End and Broadway’s Les Misérables and Miss Saigon), Emily Brontë’s gothic masterpiece tears itself from the pages and onto the stage.

Set over two chaotic days of passion and intrigue, English Touring Opera’s new production of Tosca is epic drama at a human scale, playing from Thursday 29 – Friday 30 April 2027. Rome struggles under the shadow of war and the tyrannical chief of police, Scarpia. An idealistic artist is facing execution, and only the singer Tosca can save him from his fate. The stage is set for a twisted game of cat and mouse with the highest of stakes. 

The chilling cultural phenomenon The Silence Of The Lambs makes its world stage premiere, coming to Sheffield from Tuesday 4 – Saturday 8 May 2027. Based on Thomas Harris’s gripping literary masterpiece, and starring renowned actor John Partridge (EastEnders, Everyone’s Talking About Jamie, Cabaret) as Hannibal Lecter, this electrifying new play sets the definitive psychological thriller loose. When FBI trainee Clarice Starling is sent to interview the psychiatrist and infamous murderer Hannibal Lecter, it’s hoped his brilliant mind will help catch sadistic new serial killer, Buffalo Bill. But Dr Lecter has questions of his own, and now Clarice must decide: keep a safe distance, or let Hannibal ‘The Cannibal’ into her head…?

The original Tony®-winning musical sensation Jersey Boys returns for its celebratory 20th Anniversary tour, playing in Sheffield from Tuesday 22 June – Saturday 3 July 2027. They were just four guys from Jersey, until they sang their very first note. They had a sound nobody had ever heard… and the radio just couldn’t get enough of. But while their harmonies were perfect on stage, off stage it was a very different story – a story that has made them an international sensation all over again. The show features all their hits, including Sherry, Big Girls Don’t Cry, Walk Like A Man, Can’t Take My Eyes Off You, Beggin’, Oh What a Night and more.

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