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 ...

This review is from Christmas 2024. Ballet Shoes returns for Christmas 2025. The National Theatre’s big family Christmas show is a sumptuous adaptation of Noel Streatfeild’s classic 1936 ...

Ballet-shoe choices have provoked global intrigue ... about the “economic collapse of Russia and the destruction of the nation.” Nikolay Grishko, the founder of the Russian brand who was ...

A young dancer has described her role in the National Theatre's production of Ballet Shoes as "a dream come true". Daisy Sequerra stars as Posy Fossil in the stage production of Noel Streatfeild's ...

She’s talking about the set design, with its multiple doors and levels, for her new National Theatre production of Ballet Shoes — but she could be talking about the novel itself. Many of us ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Confession time: while every other balletgoer of my acquaintance can trace their passion to childhood ...