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

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

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

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

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

Matthew Bourne ’s The Red Shoes is a swirl of colour and intensity. Adapted from the 1948 film by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, this stage version wonderfully conjures its 1940s world of ...

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 ...

Forever raising the bar for dance films while directly influencing innumerable films within the genre, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s 1948 landmark The Red Shoes is one of a handful of movies ...

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 ...