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Edward Scissorhands: Matthew Bourne’s dance version of Tim Burton’s classic, has been filmed for the big screen and will be released in cinemas across the UK and internationally for the first time from Wednesday 25th September 2024. Watch a video clip here!

Presale tickets are available today for Oliver! at the Gielgud Theatre. The presale will begin on 9 September 2024 at 12pm and run through 10 September 2024 at 11:59pm. Tickets are available for performances from 14 December 2024 - 6 April 2025.

After delighting audiences in Leeds, Nottingham, Norwich, Sheffield and London in spring, Northern Ballets landmark revival of Romeo & Juliet embarks on the second leg of its UK tour this September.  

Matthew Bourne brings sensational dance routines to the stage, adding a cherry to the cake of one of the greatest scores in musical theatre history

Edward Scissorhands: Matthew Bourne’s dance version of Tim Burton’s classic, has been filmed for the big screen and will be released in cinemas across the UK and internationally for the first time from Wednesday 25th September 2024. 

Leeds based Northern Ballet always pack a punch when they visit London every May, and this time was no different, with Massimo Moricone’s slick and captivating Romeo and Juliet. This year’s touring production held extra poignancy, with the costumes and set requiring full restoration and repair from a devastating warehouse flood in 2015.

Based on the classic Tim Burton movie and featuring the hauntingly beautiful music of Danny Elfman and Terry Davies, Bourne and his New Adventures Company return to this witty, bittersweet story of an incomplete boy left alone in a strange new world.

Northern Ballet’s iconic revival of Romeo & Juliet comes to Sadler’s Wells this month! The production will open on Tuesday 28 May and run until Saturday 1 June. 

EDWARD SCISSORHANDS, devised, directed and choreographed by Matthew Bourne, is coming to the Theatre Royal in Glasgoe from 21-25 May 2024.

Northern Ballet's revival of Romeo & Juliet comes to Sadler's Wells this May.   With glorious dancing and Prokofiev's timeless music played live by Northern Ballet Sinfonia, audiences will be invited to rediscover the iconic love story like it's the very first time. 

Cameron Mackintosh has announced that his new co-production with Chichester Festival Theatre of Lionel Bart's iconic musical, Oliver!, which he has fully reconceived with director and choreographer Matthew Bourne, will open in London at the end of the year.

EDWARD SCISSORHANDS, devised, directed and choreographed by Matthew Bourne, comes to the Theatre Royal in Glasgow from 21-25 May 2024. 

The Divine Mrs S is a load of… silliness. And not in a positive way. Directed by Anna Mackmin, it’s difficult to say what the play means. Its raison d’être could be anything from a bid to have more parts for older actors to an attempt at showing the beginnings of female liberation. Very little happens. At nearly two hours and a half, the show is excessively long and dull to the degree that it could b

An all new revival of Oliver! is coming to Chichester Festival Theatre as part of its new season. This new production of Lionel Bart’s musical has been fully reconceived especially for CFT by director and choreographer Matthew Bourne and Cameron Mackintosh. Learn more about the show here!

Matthew Bourne has certainly crafted a “New Adventure” under the title Romeo and Juliet. Purists may come up empty-handed if they mine the kaleidoscopic geometry of the mesmerizing opening sequence for any semblance of “Two households, both alike in dignity”.

Get a first look at Matthew Bourne’s Romeo and Juliet as the production begins performances at Center Theatre Group's Ahmanson Theatre.

Matthew Bourne's 'Romeo and Juliet' opens at the Ahmanson Theatre on January 31.

Ahead of the ballet’s much-anticipated revival in March 2024, an exhibition at the Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds, brings together drawings, props, costumes and photographs from Northern Ballet's Romeo & Juliet.

No Sugarplum Fairy at Sadler’s Wells this Christmas…they've got Edward Scissorhands instead! Specifically Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures production running until 20 January.

Northern Ballet will bring their award-winning Romeo & Juliet back to the stage in spring 2024 after an absence of over 16 years.