The Red Shoes is a dark and dizzying delight at Theatre Royal Plymouth

Based on the Powell-Pressburger 1948 movie classic, itself drawn from a macabre Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale, the Red ...
LAist

Choreographer Matthew Bourne says 'Red Shoes' is more theater than ballet

British director and choreographer Matthew Bourne has won an astounding amount of awards for his work, and he was recently knighted for his “service to dance.” Bourne has made a career out of adapting ...
Los Angeles Daily News

Here’s how Matthew Bourne’s ‘The Red Shoes’ will dance its way into the Ahmanson

Tony Award-winning choreographer and director Matthew Bourne is conjuring golden-age cinema in “The Red Shoes.” The production, which makes its North American debut at the Ahmanson Theatre on Friday, ...
Seattle Times

‘The Red Shoes’ dances on in a newly restored print

Do artists really talk this way? Does it matter? In “The Red Shoes,” that glorious 1948 ode to art, love and color, a young ballerina seems to whirl off the screen into our hearts. She must dance — ...
The Hollywood Reporter

‘The Red Shoes’: Theater Review

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 ...
Observer

In Ballet About a Ballet, ‘The Red Shoes’ Fails to Deliver Impeccable Dancing

Ashley Shaw in her starring role as Victoria Page in Bourne’s The Red Shoes. Johann Perrson / Center Theatre Group Lez Brotherston’s set design is minimalistic, but exquisite in its attention to the ...
The San Bernardino Sun

Here’s how Matthew Bourne’s ‘The Red Shoes’ will dance its way into the Ahmanson

Tony Award-winning choreographer and director Matthew Bourne is conjuring golden-age cinema in “The Red Shoes.” The production, which makes its North American debut at the Ahmanson Theatre on Friday, ...