Georgina Butler is an editor, a dance writer, and a ballet teacher.
Award-winning musical Dreamgirls is on the road for its first UK tour and performances in Milton Keynes start this month. The show, which will visit Milton Keynes Theatre for a two-week run from Tuesday… View Post
Fee-fi-fo-fum, panto is back at Milton Keynes Theatre and the long-awaited Jack and the Beanstalk is gold-standard entertainment for everyone! After so many restrictions and changes of direction in the real world, the only… View Post
Happy World Ballet Day 2021! Today is World Ballet Day 2021 and this year the celebration is going to be the biggest and best yet. A record-breaking 51 dance companies, across six continents,… View Post
Bittersweet romantic comedy musical Waitress exuberantly proves the power of pie without sugar-coating life’s complexities and disappointments. Protagonist Jenna Hunterson is passionate about baking and dreams up a new pie for every occasion. Trapped… View Post
Discover what baking can do when Waitress serves up a delicious confection of peppy songs, romance, drama and comedy at Milton Keynes Theatre. The smash-hit show is stopping off in the new city from… View Post
The 7 Fingers convinces us to enjoy the ride in Passagers, an incredible show that combines high-flying circus skills with evocative dance, music and storytelling. We have all been performing a balancing act during… View Post
Creative circus company The 7 Fingers will thrill audiences in Milton Keynes with performances of Passagers on 24 and 25 September. The Canadian collective, which merges acrobatics and physical skills with dance, multimedia, music… View Post
Trailblazing arts collective The 7 Fingers will showcase its signature blend of circus and dance at Milton Keynes Theatre this week. Dance Consortium, which presents the best international contemporary dance to audiences across the… View Post
Happy World Ballet Day 2020! World Ballet Day 2020 is here to remind us to make the most of any opportunity to celebrate. This is such a strange year, but “ballet” remains my… View Post
‘Social Disdancing’ is just one of the many unusual expressions that have been added to our everyday vocabulary in recent weeks. Since efforts were intensified to curb the global spread of coronavirus (COVID-19), we… View Post
Today is International Dance Day 2020, an occasion for people all over the world to express their appreciation for dance. Dancing at home is proving to be an essential way for many of us… View Post
Something wonderful is happening at Milton Keynes Theatre: audiences are getting to know The King and I thanks to a sumptuous revival by The Lincoln Center Theater. Rodgers and Hammerstein’s glorious golden age musical… View Post
Whatever your current relationship status is, winsome musical Once appealingly arranges all the right notes to remind you of everyday romance. The show, currently engaged in its first major UK tour, is based on… View Post
Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes is an irresistible dance theatre production that radiates vintage glamour and vivacious grace. Think of classic British ballet film The Red Shoes and delightfully dated images of ballerinas, and… View Post
Matthew Bourne’s exquisite double Olivier Award winning adaptation of classic dance film The Red Shoes is returning to enchant audiences at Milton Keynes Theatre this month. Following its world premiere in 2016, theatregoers in… View Post
There is barely time to draw breath when watching Aladdin at Milton Keynes Theatre. This year’s pantomime leaves you gasping for air between the laughs and gasping in awe at the spectacular flying carpet.… View Post
English National Ballet’s Le Corsaire is a treasure trove of colourful characters and virtuoso dancing. It’s the perfect antidote to the winter blues. Based very loosely on an 1814 poem by Lord Byron, the narrative… View Post
Escape to an exotic realm of pirates, romance and jealousy when English National Ballet revives its spectacular production of Le Corsaire this month. Six years after the glittering world premiere at Milton Keynes Theatre,… View Post
Be enthralled by the dark tale of an enduring horror figure at a live cinema screening of Northern Ballet’s Dracula this Halloween. Tonight’s performance of the ballet at Leeds Playhouse will be broadcast in… View Post
Clear your diary, today is World Ballet Day 2019! Ballet companies around the world open their digital doors on World Ballet Day, inviting us to witness hard work happening in the studio and… View Post
