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Matthew Bourne

July 2024

  • Oliver! at Chichester Festival theatre.

    Oliver! review – divine yet danger-averse revival could be renamed Fagin!

    Chichester Festival theatre
    New staging of classic has perfect singing, cute choreography by Matthew Bourne, but rather too little daring – and one show-stealing performance

February 2024

  • Emma Gladstone, who, in her early years, formed a dance group with Matthew Bourne, called Adventures in Motion Pictures.

    Emma Gladstone obituary

    Dancer and artistic director of the Dance Umbrella festival known for being an innovative force in the industry

December 2023

  • Christine Flores, Melissa Toogood, Victor Lozano, Maile Okamura, Zachary Gonder and company in Song of Songs by Pam Tanowitz and David Lang.

    Observer critics' review of 2023
    Dance: Sarah Crompton’s five best shows of 2023

    Tiler Peck breezed in, Carmen Herrera bowed out, Benji Reid made a dazzling return and Pam Tanowitz entranced
  • Liam Mower (Edward Scissorhands) in Edward Scissorhands by Matthew Bourne @ Sadler's Wells.

    Edward Scissorhands review – Matthew Bourne’s tender hymn to difference and acceptance

    Bourne’s sharp, tender dance production of the boy with scissor hands – a symbol for outsiders everywhere – feels more vital than ever
  • Katrina Lyndon and Liam Mower in Edward Scissorhands by Matthew Bourne at Sadler's Wells.

    Edward Scissorhands review – Matthew Bourne’s dance blockbuster is a cut above

    Tim Burton’s film is a natural fit for Bourne’s choreography and a bright young cast bring its bittersweet tale to fresh life

October 2023

  • Moon Water by Cloud Gate Dance theatre of Taiwan

    Dancing dreams: 25 stunning scenes at Sadler’s Wells – in pictures

  • Bonnie Langford (front), with Bernadette Peters (behind her), and the cast of Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends at Gielgud theatre.

    Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends review – merrily they roll along

August 2023

  • Paris Fitzpatrick and Cordelia Braithwaite as Romeo and Juliet, little by torchlight, being showered by confetti by a group of people around them, everyone dressed in white vests, in an asylum setting

    Matthew Bourne’s Romeo + Juliet review – more compelling than ever

    Set in an asylum, the choreographer’s bleak yet passionate adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragic romance triumphs in a newly honed revival

December 2022

  • SLEEPING BEAUTY by Bourne,            , Director and Choreographer - Matthew Bourne, Designer - Lez Brotherston, Lighting - Paule Constable, New Adventures, Theatre Royal, Plymouth, 2022, Credit: Johan Persson/

    Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty review – delights the heart and mind

  • Playing to the gods … Andrew Monaghan as Leo with Ashley Shaw as Aurora in Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty at Sadler's Wells.

    Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty review – doing the fairytale twist

October 2022

  • Unexpected twists … Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty.

    ‘Don’t worry, just watch’: how do you tell a story through dance?

    Even the best-known ballets can baffle newcomers so what can choreographers do to avoid audiences getting lost? From Matthew Bourne’s fairytales to staging Margaret Atwood and Peaky Blinders, we find out

June 2022

  • Zizi Strallen as Lana in The Car Man.

    The Car Man; Like Water for Chocolate review – two narrative delights

    Matthew Bourne and Christopher Wheeldon bring masterly cinematic power to their adaptations of Bizet’s Carmen and Laura Esquivel’s 1989 novel
  • Harry Ondrak-Wright as Lorenzo and Kurumi Kamayachi as Silvana

    The Guardian picture essay
    Behind the scenes at Matthew Bourne’s The Car Man – a photo essay

    Matthew Bourne’s The Car Man is a steamy, pulp-fiction take on the Bizet opera Carmen, staged at the Royal Albert Hall. Guardian photographer Tristram Kenton gained exclusive access
  • Will Bozier and Zizi Strallen on the floor in The Car Man

    Matthew Bourne’s The Car Man review – steamy dance thriller with a supercharged engine

    Bourne’s 1950s potboiler has been beefed up for a larger venue. The result is classy, trashy – and deeply serious

May 2022

  • The curtain call for the gala performance.

    Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends review – a glorious all-star memorial service

    Judi Dench, Rob Brydon, Imelda Staunton and Bernadette Peters joined the cast for this superb tribute to a genius

December 2021

  • Nutcracker!

    Matthew Bourne’s Nutcracker! review – a pink, chewy fizz of a show

  • Lunch With Matthew Bourne
Observer Food Monthly
OFM December 2021

    Lunch with...
    Matthew Bourne: ‘We were always singing at home; my dad thought he was Frank Sinatra’

September 2021

  • Glenn Graham in Matthew Bourne’s The Midnight Bell.

    Hangovers and hang-ups: Matthew Bourne’s The Midnight Bell steps into 30s Soho

    The choreographer’s new show brings together lonely souls from the London novels of Patrick Hamilton. Expect regret, fumbling and a hint of mystery

August 2021

  • Cush Jumbo plays Hamlet, Mae Martin and Simon Amstell.

    Autumn arts preview 2021
    Hamlet, Cabaret and a fistful of Romeos: the best theatre, comedy and dance of autumn 2021

    Cush Jumbo tackles the troubled prince, Jessie Buckley and Eddie Redmayne head for 30s Berlin, while standup favourites and dance spectaculars burst back on the stage

May 2021

  • Matthew Bourne

    Matthew Bourne: dance isn’t ‘taken as seriously as I’d thought’

    Freelance performers ‘forgotten’ during the pandemic says top choreographer as he launches Cygnet School training programme to diversify industry
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