New season offers a variety of entertaining theatrre shows in Sheffield

The new season includes SELENE, which comes to the Playhouse on September 23. A child watches the moon landings on repeat. A teenager makes a list of all the things they are not. A young adult starts to discover who they are. Written and created by Alexander Wright and Phil Clive Grainger, and made with and told by Megan Drury, SELENE is a story about the light sides of us, the dark sides of us, and the things we grow up in the orbit of.

Imagine being dragged into a wild camping trip with your politically outspoken uncle out of social awkwardness. No technology allowed. Just beer, fishing rods and jerky. Off-Grid, at the Playhouse on October 15, is a new comedy show by Sam Danson which investigates the painful reality of being between the generation that had no internet growing up, and the one that had all the internet.

Following a recent sell-out at the Edinburgh Fringe, Amazons by Gaël Le Cornec is a compelling and mesmerising retelling of the stories of women from the world’s largest forest, running in the Playhouse on October 22. Plant-sitting and live-streaming from her friend’s flat in the UK, Gayara unearths the untold histories of her Amazonian ancestors, from those who watched the first Europeans lay claim to her land, to the women fighting to defend the forest today.

In a clinic waiting room, two Somali teens meet up – paving the way for Crush, a rom-com to warm your heart, and running at the Playhouse on October 23 and 24. Crush is a tender, funny and honest story about identity, connection and the messy path to healing and was longlisted for the Tony Craze Award 2025.

Set to a live soundtrack of indie classics, How Soon is Now?, set at New Year in 90s Manchester, is a new indie musical about mates, music and magic – finding your place and finding yourself. How Soon is Now? runs at the Playhouse on November 4 and 5.

Off Key is a coming-of-age drama about Black girlhood, ambition and friendship set at a grammar school bursting with overachievers, political meltdowns and teenage delusion. Catch the production at the Montgomery Theatre on November 10.

Immersive new play Bomes in the Desert confronts the long shadows of war, racism in contemporary Europe as a teenage refugee is haunted by memories of fleeing the Syrian conflict. Bones in the Desert will be presented at the Playhouse on November 18 amd is suitable for ages 13+.

Equal parts corporate seminar and queer fever dream, DYKE Systems Ltd takes its audience into the glittery, unhinged world of multi-level marketing mayhem with Fag Packet; Kheski Kobler and Holly Wilson-Guy, the award-winning cabaret and theatre double act presenting the most prestigious seminar of the year that could help you get filthy rich! Playing on November 25 in the Playhouse.

Innovative Sheffield-based artists Forced Entertainment present Table Top Shakespeare with selected works playing from November 10-12 in the Playhouse. Two performers create condensed versions of six of Shakespeare’s iconic plays, creating lovingly made miniatures played out on a one metre table-top using a collection of ordinary household objects.

Tickets for all productions can be booked through the box office in person, over the phone on 0114 249 6000, or at sheffieldtheatres.co.uk.