Filmmakers Powell and Pressburger were not the first to portray ballet dancing as a fatal obsession and choreographer Matthew ...

I couldn't help but get swept away by The Red Shoes. A rich blend of romantic storytelling and cinema, this production ...

Matthew Bourne ’s The Red Shoes is a swirl of colour and intensity. Adapted from the 1948 film by Michael Powell and Emeric ...

Dance-theatre grand vizier Matthew Bourne – mastermind of the fantastic, now returning 2016 melodrama The Red Shoes – once ...

Ten years after its premiere, Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes returns, and it’s just as enchanting and captivating as ever.

She is the determined dancer, the core of the tale, the sacrifice to art one has to make. And she does pay the ultimate price ...

Read our review of dance drama *The Red Shoes*, now in performances at Sadler's Wells to 18 January 2026. Read more theatre ...

Sadler’s Wells is a nut-free zone this year: three Christmas shows — The Red Shoes, Ebony Scrooge and The Snowman — and not a ...

Be careful what you wish for. It’s a useful tip at this gifty time of year – and also impels Matthew Bourne’s darkly romantic ...

Bourne’s Glorious Adaptation of the Seminal 1940s Movie Matthew Bourne never made a secret of his love for the cinema – it’s ...

Thapa’s stand holds a tragic grandeur: a small band determined not just to fight, but to hold hope alive for a land drifting into chaos. In 1948, as the newly independent India reeled from multi-front ...