Will Bozier and Richard Winsor will share the title role when Matthew Bourne’s multi-award-winning dance thriller The Car Man returns for 14 performances only as part of the Royal Albert Hall’s 150th anniversary celebrations this summer. Presented by New Adventures and the Royal Albert Hall, the acclaimed work inspired by Bizet’s Carmen has been re-imagined […]
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Tenth anniversary return for Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty
Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty will re-awaken later this year with a 10th anniversary touring production which will include a return Christmas season at London’s Sadler’s Wells. Opening at the Theatre Royal Plymouth on 12 November (until 19 November), the popular New Adventures production will visit The Lowry, Salford (22-26 November) before playing a seven-week festive […]
Lez Brotherston to receive an OBE in the Queen’s New Year Honours 2022
New Adventures has congratulated associate artist and Tony and Olivier Award-winning designer Lez Brotherston on his Order of the British Empire in The Queen’s New Year Honours 2022 for services to Dance and Theatre. Matthew Bourne said today: “Sending enormous congratulations to Lez Brotherston OBE on this much-deserved honour, from the entire New Adventures Family. As […]
Matthew Bourne’s Nutcracker! – Sadler’s Wells and Touring
Matthew Bourne’s Nutcracker! continues at Sadler’s Wells, London until 30 January 2022 and then tours until 23 April 2021. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This production is like a Christmas tree. It’s evergreen and tinselly. But of course this is Matthew Bourne so it’s also shot through with his characteristic robust […]
Blu-Ray Review: The Matthew Bourne Collection
THE MATTHEW BOURNE COLLECTION – 5 Blu-Ray Box Set (Illuminations – 5060291820232) Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The Christmas season came early for me this year due to the fact that I was sent this 5 Blu-Ray box set to review – and what an absolute treat it is. Matthew Bourne […]
Five Questions With: Adam Cooper
Award-winning performer ADAM COOPER plays the intimidating director/choreographer Zach in Curve Leicester’s production of the groundbreaking musical A Chorus Line, directed by Nikolai Foster and choreographed by Ellen Kane (running until 31 December 2021). Having gained acclaim for creating the lead role of the Swan/Stranger in Matthew Bourne’s production of Swan Lake – a role […]
Cast and tour dates for Matthew Bourne’s Nutcracker!
New Adventures has announced the full cast and tour dates for the eagerly-awaited 30th anniversary production of Matthew Bourne’s Nutcracker! which is due to make its Covid-delayed debut at the Theatre Royal Plymouth on 15 November 2021. Featuring a mix of New Adventures favourites and a number of company newcomers, Nutcracker! will star Cordelia Braithwaite […]
Matthew Bourne’s The Midnight Bell to premiere with UK tour
New Adventures has announced the world premiere of Matthew Bourne’s The Midnight Bell at the Cheltenham Everyman on 9 September 2021 at the start of a UK tour of 13 venues. Inspired by the distinctive work of 20th century playwright and novelist Patrick Hamilton and set in London’s Soho, the new production has been created […]
Bourne’s The Car Man to drive into the Royal Albert Hall for a limited run in 2021
Matthew Bourne’s multi-award-winning dance thriller The Car Man will return for 14 performances only as part of the Royal Albert Hall’s 150th anniversary celebrations in 2021. Presented by New Adventures and the Royal Albert Hall, the acclaimed work inspired by Bizet’s Carmen will be re-imagined for the iconic venue utilising the full expanse of the […]
Little Grasses Crack Through Stone / Checkmate – Adventures in Film
Little Grasses Crack Through Stone is the second of this autumn’s Adventures in Film from Matthew Bourne’s company New Adventures in collaboration with TEA films. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Choreographer Anjali Mehra knew she was looking for a story about three women when she stumbled on Sylvia Plath’s radio play, Three Women: A […]
Nostos – Adventures in Film
Nostos is the first of this autumn’s Adventures in Film from Matthew Bourne’s company New Adventures in collaboration with TEA films. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Adventures in Film comprises three short movies made this year by female choreographers from the Adventures in Motion Pictures dance company with the brief to ‘tell a […]
Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes – Cinema Release
Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes is launching in cinemas across the UK and Ireland from 30 September 2020. It was filmed at Sadler’s Wells in January 2020 in partnership with More2Screen. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Much of the latest tour of this show from the New Adventures has sadly been […]
Rescheduled cinema release for Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes
The delayed cinema release of Matthew Bourne’s double Olivier Award-winning production of The Red Shoes has been rescheduled for next month. Launching in cinemas across the UK and Ireland from 30 September 2020, the seventh New Adventures production to be filmed in partnership with More2Screen was filmed live at Sadler’s Wells in January this year. […]
DVD and Blu-rays of Bourne’s Swan Lake and Romeo + Juliet
Illuminations are releasing the DVD and Blu-rays of Matthew Bourne’s hit 2018 re-imagined version of his innovative Swan Lake and 2019’s critically-acclaimed Romeo + Juliet. Filmed live at Sadler’s Wells during the 2018/2019 tour, the 21st century version of Bourne’s convention-bending version of the classic ballet Swan Lake features Liam Mower as The Prince, with […]
Looking forward to The Car Man screening with a new gallery of images
If you’re looking forward to this coming weekend’s screening of Matthew Bourne and New Adventures’ multi-award-winning dance thriller The Car Man on Sky Arts (3 May at 8pm), then why not feast your eyes on this fantastic gallery of images from our official photographer Roy Tan. The Car Man was filmed live at Sadler’s […]
Sky Arts debuts for New Adventures productions
The broadcast premieres of Matthew Bourne’s 2018 re-imagined version of his innovative Swan Lake and last year’s critically acclaimed Romeo and Juliet have been announced as part of New Adventures’ newly-launched programme, A Festival Of Classics. Filmed live at Sadler’s Wells during the 2018/2019 tour, the 21st century version of Bourne’s convention-bending version of the […]
Adam Cooper returns to the role of Don Lockwood in Singin’ in the Rain return
Award-winning dancer and choreographer Adam Cooper will re-create his crowd-pleasing performance as Don Lockwood when the acclaimed Chichester Festival Theatre production of Singin’ in the Rain plays a five-week season at Sadler’s Wells next summer. Cooper first played the iconic role at Sadler’s Wells in the 2004 revival of the show before playing Lockwood once […]
Royal Ballet star Matthew Ball to debut in Matthew Bourne’s festive Swan Lake
The Royal Ballet’s newest principal dancer Matthew Ball will join New Adventures for the entire London season of Matthew Bourne’s new production of his innovative Swan Lake this Christmas. After making his debut as Prince Siegfried in the Royal Ballet’s traditional Swan Lake, Ball will star in Bourne’s famously all-male version of the classic ballet, […]
Matthew Bourne’s Romeo and Juliet to premiere in 2019
New talent will perform alongside seasoned professional dancers when Matthew Bourne’s version of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet receives its world premiere next year. Directed and choreographed by Bourne, the re-imagining of the ultimate romantic tragedy will feature established stars alongside the finest emerging male and female talent selected following a nationwide talent search which began […]
New Adventures Cinderella returns for Sadler’s Wells season and UK tour
New Adventures has announced casting for the much-anticipated return of Matthew Bourne’s version of Cinderella which will open at Sadler’s Wells in December ahead of a UK tour beginning in January 2018. Marking 20 years since Cinderella first premiered in the West End and becoming New Adventures’ 16th consecutive Christmas season at Sadler’s Wells, the […]
Matthew Bourne receives Critics’ Circle Award for Outstanding Services to the Arts
Acclaimed choreographer Sir Matthew Bourne added another award to his long list of honours on Friday when he was presented with the Critics’ Circle Award for Outstanding Services to the Arts. Receiving his award from Graham Watts, the chairman of the Dance Section of Critics’ Circle and National Dance Awards, Bourne became only the fourth dance-related […]
New Adventures’ The Red Shoes – full casting
New Adventures has announced full casting for the much-anticipated world premiere of Matthew Bourne’s version of The Red Shoes, due to begin a UK tour at the Plymouth Theatre Royal in November. Cordelia Braithwaite and Katrina Lyndon will join the previously announced Ashley Shaw in the central role of ambitious dancer Victoria Page. All three featured […]
Matthew Bourne and New Adventures to stage The Red Shoes
New Adventures has announced the world premiere of Matthew Bourne’s production of The Red Shoes, opening at the Theatre Royal Plymouth on Monday 21 November with an eight-week Christmas season at Sadler’s Wells from Tuesday 6 December 2016 to Sunday 29 January 2017 (press night is Wednesday 14 December). A beloved fairy-tale and Academy Award-winning movie, The Red Shoes has seduced audiences and […]
Mr Wonderful – A Celebration of Jonathan Ollivier’s Life In Dance – Sadler’s Wells
Kevin Wilson reflects on Mr Wonderful – A Celebration of Jonathan Ollivier’s Life In Dance, the evening of dance dedicated to the memory of gifted dancer Jonathan Ollivier at Sadler’s Wells. ‘He truly was ‘Mr Wonderful’. I wasn’t able to write anything last night about my reaction to attending the Sadler’s Wells celebration of dancer Jonathan Ollivier’s life, Mr Wonderful, […]
Details revealed for Mr Wonderful – A Celebration of Jonathan Ollivier’s Life In Dance
Matthew Bourne has announced the full programme for Mr Wonderful – A Celebration of Jonathan Ollivier’s Life In Dance, the evening of dance dedicated to the memory of gifted dancer Jonathan Ollivier at Sadler’s Wells on 18 January. Speaking on behalf of New Adventures, Northern Ballet and Sadler’s Wells, Bourne revealed final details of the […]
Life of the late dancer Jonathan Ollivier celebrated at Sadler’s Wells in January 2016
The life of gifted dancer Jonathan Ollivier will be celebrated in an extra special evening of dance at Sadler’s Wells on 18 January 2016. New Adventures and Re: Bourne’s Mr Wonderful – A Celebration of Jonathan Ollivier’s Life In Dance is planned as a fitting fundraising tribute to the dancer who tragically died in an […]
Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty – London casting revealed
Casting has been announced for the first revival of Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty at Sadler’s Wells this Christmas. The popular New Adventures production will return for its festive run from 1 December until 24 January 2016. Ashley Shaw (The Car Man, Edward Scissorhands, Cinderella) will be returning to the central role of Aurora alongside Cordelia Braithwaite who […]
Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty – full cast details and further tour dates
New Adventures has announced the full cast and further tour dates for the first revival of Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty, opening at the Theatre Royal, Plymouth on Saturday 17 October 2015 with an eight-week Christmas season at Sadler’s Wells from Tuesday 1 December 2015 to Saturday 24 January 2016. In total, the production will play 18 venues. Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty is a […]
Matthew Bourne pays tribute to Jonathan Ollivier – 1977-2015
Just hours before he was due to perform in the final show of Matthew Bourne’s production of The Car Man at Sadler’s Wells Theatre, dancer Jonathan Ollivier died tragically in a motorbike accident. Below, Bourne pays his own tribute. JONATHAN OLLIVIER, 1977 – 2015 A TRIBUTE FROM MATTHEW BOURNE AND NEW ADVENTURES Following yesterday’s tragic incident and […]
