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 ...
So -- Matthew Bourne’s “Nutcracker” is “satiric” [“In Satiric Grip of ‘Nutcracker!’ ” by Lewis Segal, Dec. 20]. Just what we need in a popular ballet, a good dose of cynicism! As the ballet that is ...