Matthew Bourne is in his storytelling pomp - 4/5 This adaptation of Powell and Pressburger’s famous classic is a tragedy told ...

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

Matthew Bourne’s ballet about a woman who must choose between love and dance is full of passion and self-awareness ...

"You have suffered a great loss... that's not the only story you have to tell." Screen has unveiled the official trailer for a dance movie titled The Red Shoes: Next Step, arriving in Australian ...

Listen to director Matthew Bourne as he explains how he incorporated dance into this stage adaptation of “The Red Shoes.” Based on the iconic film by the same name, Bourne chose to fully immerse the ...

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

Director-choreographer Matthew Bourne reimagines the classic Powell and Pressburger dance drama 'The Red Shoes' as a sumptuous full-length ballet, set to the music of Bernard Herrmann. By David Rooney ...

The two movies have other things in common. The denouement in Powell and Pressburger’s masterful film about art and mortality is the performance of a ballet called “The Red Shoes”, based on Hans ...

Matthew Bourne conjures the impassioned, hothouse world of ballet - 4/5 This richly realised production packs a wealth of ...

The best movie I’ve watched all summer long was made in 1948. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s The Red Shoes is a hypnotic dead drop into the psyche of an ambitious ballerina who is ultimately ...