We’re looking back in pictures at the world-famous theatre as it prepares to celebrate its half century in November. The current show at the Crucible is the excellent Typical Girls, inspired by the music of punk band The Slits. Box office: www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk
13. Holocaust drama
Sian Phillips rehearsing in Arthur Miller's Playing For Time at the Crucible in 2015 - Sian played Fania Fénelon, who was one of the women prisoners forced to play in an orchestra in the Nazi Auschwitz death camp Photo: Photo by Mark Douet
14. Sheffield stars align
City-born writer Chris Bush and famed musician Richard Hawley at the launch of Standing at the Sky's Edge at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield in 2019. The show is a Sheffield story interwoven with Richard's iconic songs Photo: Chris Etchells