An exuberant and skillful adaptation will please the novel’s generations of fans while simultaneously enchanting a whole new ...

Leaping between its period setting and the present, Kendell Feaver’s adaptation of Noel Streatfield’s 1936 book is as delicately balanced as a dancer on pointe ...

“Especially when times are so turbulent, the arts are an incredible place to escape. It’s healing.” Meanwhile, artist Libby Klein, known for her painterly landscapes, created a ballet shoe ...

Others fear that, without the suffering that can accompany traditional pointe shoes, the art form itself will be diminished.

W hen I was a boy I thought Ballet Shoes was for girls: a story of poor strivers desperate to don a tutu. This delicious show ...

Unlike The Importance of Being Earnest, its hot-ticket rival for festive attention at the Lyttelton, Ballet Shoes – as brought to the main Olivier stage by Kendall Feaver, with Katy Rudd ...