Articles by Sarah Cockburn
Just another southern immigrant to Sheffield, tempted to stay by the green hills, real ale and independent spirit. I'll be bringing you all the brightest, best and most intriguing of what the Steel City's cultural scene has to offer.
Sarah Cockburn meets two enthusiastic foodies putting Sheffield scran on the map and on the web.
Foodie extraordinaire Clare Tollick goes to check out the new menu at The Wick at Both Ends.
Matthew Mella finds out about Sheffield’s international ambitions in the field of design.
Yorkshire Unplugged: the audience decides who wears the crown in this live acoustic competition for local musician. Marishka Van Steenbergen brings us an exclusive interview with the winners of the first heat.
Cold war politics, espionage and flared suits in the third installment of Sheffield Theatres’ Michael Frayn Season
The perils of renovating people and places are explored in the second offering in Sheffield Theatres’ Michael Frayn season.
The Cucumber Lounge is here to clear those end of the weekend blues and keep you smiling till Monday tea-time.
Physics, ethics and war collide in this verbose three-hander which opens Sheffield Theatres’ Michael Frayn Season
Dark passions abound at The Lantern Theatre’s first home-grown professional production Order
Museums Sheffield open an exhibition which brings together venerated historical works with big name contemporary pieces to try and puzzle out what that many-headed beast ‘the family’ might look like.
Matthew Mella checked in at Sheffield City Council’s latest Culture Club event showcasing what the city has to offer in terms of participation.
Sarah Cockburn enjoys some gender-bending jollity at the Lyceum with Propeller’s all-male production of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale. It’s far from being a drag.
Shaking up what might have been an unremarkable Sheffield Friday night in mid-January, a new city-wide art event named Pub Scrawl turned control over to the city’s artists for a short but sweet creative bluster. Jane Faram tells us more…
SKINN- Shalesmoor, Kelham Island and Neepsend Network held their first ‘art crawl’ in October. The event featured two free days of art exhibitions, crafts stalls, fashion shows, improv theatre, pop-up bars and live music. Marishka Van Steenbergen investigates why this creative conglomerate are the ones to watch on the Sheffield cultural scene in 2012.
Sarah Cockburn enjoys some standout performances in a nevertheless flawed musical at the Crucible this Christmas.
E. H. Cocker explores a defiantly beautiful ‘broken Britain’ in Si Barber’s exhibition at Bank Street Arts in Sheffield.
Sarah Cockburn enters the murky world of a down-at-heel private detective in the last instalment of Sheffield Theatres’ and Paines Ploughs’ Roundabout Season.
Sarah Cockburn suggests you have a nosy round the studios of some of Sheffield’s most talents makers including a prize-winning silversmith….
Sarah Cockburn goes to a birthday party for Sheffield’s cultural colossus, the world famous Crucible Theatre
Sarah Cockburn goes in search of the smell of the greasepaint and the roar of the crowd with Fanfared at the Crucible.
Intrepid gourmande Clare Tollick takes a spoon to Yee Kwan’s new batch of savoury ices with some mouth watering results.
Sarah Cockburn visits the Crucible Studio for the second play in the Paines Plough Roundabout season.
Rob Barker braves the wee small hours to find out about a marathon music project with a good cause.
Sarah Cockburn gets in a spin with the first of Sheffield Theatres and Paines Plough’s Roundabout Season, One Day When We Were Young.
