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After The Witches last Christmas, the National Theatre has another seasonal hit on its hands with Ballet Shoes. It was my duty as a critic, rather than knowledge of the book by Noel Streatfeild, or ...

Read our review of Ballet Shoes, starring Grace Saif, Yanexi Enrique, Daisy Sequerra and Pearl Mackie, now in performances at the National Theatre to 22 February 2025. In Noel Streatfeild’s 1936 ...

Noel Streatfeild’s best-selling book Ballet Shoes has been adapted for the stage by Kendall Feaver, and we have first-look images. The family show is playing on the National Theatre’s Olivier stage ...

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 ...

Daisy Sequerra (as Posy Fossil), Yanexi Enriquez (as Petrova Fossil) and Grace Saif (as Pauline Fossil) in Ballet Shoes, © Manuel Harlan There are perils to adapting ...

Jingle those bells joyfully: here is a real Christmas cracker from the National Theatre, one whose pleasures will surely be enjoyed for myriad festive seasons to come. Noel Streatfeild’s ...

The whole thing is a visual feast: an ensemble clad in teal leggings and ballet pumps shrugs in and out of other garments, and Frankie Bradshaw’s set – a towering arch of cabinets, each like a ...

When I was a boy I thought Ballet Shoes was for girls: a story of poor strivers desperate to don a tutu. This delicious show about three female foundlings forging their own identities, and a ...