WASHINGTON — It was a Danish fairy tale that became a British movie masterpiece. This week, the stage version of “The Red Shoes” hits the Kennedy Center from Tuesday to Sunday after winning two ...

Do artists really talk this way? Does it matter? In “The Red Shoes,” that glorious 1948 ode to art, love and color, a young ballerina seems to whirl off the screen into our hearts. She must dance — ...

A timeless fairytale and Academy Award-winning movie, The Red Shoes has captivated audiences and inspired generations of ...

The best movie I’ve watched all summer long was made in 1948. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s The Red Shoes is a hypnotic dead drop into the psyche of an ambitious ballerina who is ultimately ...

What makes a pugnacious Italian-American director best known for gangster movies like Mean Streets and Goodfellas fall in love with an arty British ballet drama from 75 years ago? This is a question ...

Ask Martin Scorsese about the weather or his coffee order, and it’ll be five minutes before he somehow works The Red Shoes into the conversation. The reasons why stretch beyond the director’s ...

Director-choreographer Matthew Bourne reimagines the classic Powell and Pressburger dance drama 'The Red Shoes' as a sumptuous full-length ballet, set to the music of Bernard Herrmann. By David Rooney ...

Ashley Shaw in her starring role as Victoria Page in Bourne’s The Red Shoes. Johann Perrson / Center Theatre Group Lez Brotherston’s set design is minimalistic, but exquisite in its attention to the ...

Over the past year, Colman Domingo has become the breakout star of men’s red carpets in Hollywood. While doing his first red carpet season as a leading man in 2024, he made himself known by wearing a ...