Georgina Butler is an editor, a dance writer and a ballet teacher.
Step right up and dream big when Barnum, the circus musical, brings sights and sounds to marvel at to Milton Keynes Theatre this month. Revived for its first UK tour in over a decade,… View Post
The Royal Ballet School Summer Performance 2026 celebrated past, present and future with a special centenary programme of heritage ballets and new creations, danced by outstanding students. Showcasing end-of-term excellence, the Royal Ballet School’s… View Post
Temperatures are sizzling inside Milton Keynes Theatre this week courtesy of Matthew Bourne’s The Car Man – a slick, steamy, sexy dance thriller. This intoxicating production is Georges Bizet’s Carmen reignited in Bourne’s signature… View Post
Let your imagination take flight and heed this pinky promise: London Children’s Ballet’s riveting revival of Anne of Green Gables is unquestionably West End worthy. Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery’s red-headed hurricane of a… View Post
Buckle up, Matthew Bourne’s The Car Man is set to seduce audiences at Milton Keynes Theatre this month. Gritty, witty and definitely the most adults-only of all Bourne’s shows, The Car Man is loosely… View Post
The young dancers of London Children’s Ballet will showcase their talent and charm theatregoers of all ages in Anne of Green Gables at Peacock Theatre this July. Pint-sized performers are set to share dramatic flair… View Post
Gender-skewering comic ballet company Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo will bring its unique blend of low comedy and high art to Milton Keynes Theatre on 2 and 3 June. The troupe of professional… View Post
Ballet Icons Gala 2026 provided a star-studded, celebratory evening of ballet with a programme of fourteen works, including a UK premiere and two world premieres. Established in 2006, by Olga Balakleets, this annual, one-night-only… View Post
Life rushes by so press pause for an evening of movement, music and melodrama – Matthew Bourne’s production of The Red Shoes is as mesmerising as ever. Once a dancer, always a dancer? There… View Post
Audiences will be guided through fractured histories and into a recontextualised future when From Ash to Promise, a new triple bill of contemporary ballet, takes to the stage this month. The production, which features… View Post
Appreciate what it means to live to dance when blockbuster choreographer Matthew Bourne’s production of The Red Shoes returns to Milton Keynes Theatre this month. The quintessential backstage melodrama tells an intoxicating story of… View Post
Ebullient, entertaining and enticing – Paul Taylor Dance Company marks its first UK appearance in over two decades with an exquisitely engaging triple bill. Paul Taylor Dance Company honours masterful modern dance maker Paul… View Post
The spirit of Akram Khan’s Giselle, danced with vehemence and vulnerability by English National Ballet, resonates like never before in our troubled times. Attending a performance of this landmark production is an experience –… View Post
English National Ballet treats festive-spirit seekers to sugar, spice and all things ice with Nutcracker – a flavourful production that leaves a satisfying ‘don’t worry, be nutty’ aftertaste. Since being established as a Christmas… View Post
Happy World Ballet Day 2025! Today is World Ballet Day 2025 – whoever and wherever you are, it is time to join the celebration and the conversation. After pressing pause for 2024, the… View Post
Dazzlingly theatrical song-and-dance adventure Mary Poppins measures up in supercalifragilisticexpialidocious style. The wind has carried Cameron Mackintosh and Disney’s beloved stage musical to Milton Keynes Theatre for a four-week run. Take a classic, tweak… View Post
The Royal Ballet chases away the autumn chill with the warmth and mischief of a delightfully danced La Fille mal gardée – still the sunniest, funniest, twirliest romcom around. Frederick Ashton, founder choreographer of… View Post
Energetic, exciting and entertaining. The performers certainly do thrill in iD Reloaded by contemporary circus company Cirque Éloize. Nine talented cast members break away from a humdrum, eyes-down existence to hype each other –… View Post
Theatregoers of all ages will discover magic and mischief in a most delightful way when Mary Poppins flies to Milton Keynes Theatre this autumn. The musical, which is produced and co-created by Cameron Mackintosh… View Post
Contemporary circus company Cirque Éloize brings iD Reloaded to Milton Keynes Theatre this month. The Montreal troupe is promising to blow audiences away with this fresh new show, which is inspired by the original… View Post
