In The Midnight Bell, now playing at Sadler's Wells, Matthew Bourne turns his directing and choreographing styles away from fairytale romance and toward the raw, shadowy corners of 1930s Soho to the ...

The lack of a synopsis in the programme booklet is at once surprising and encouraging. Too much dance-theatre is sunk by the dead weight of printed explication, and really, if a story can’t be told in ...

Broken-hearted boozers and half-cut romantics are always welcome in The Midnight Bell. A pub in unglamorous 1930s London, it hosts dire assignations and unwise couplings in Matthew Bourne’s splendidly ...

Nor a heart-stopping central moment such as in his Blitz-era Cinderella, when the Café de Paris takes a direct hit. The Midnight Bell, inspired by the novels of the mid-last-century English writer ...

Explores the under-belly of 1930s London life where ordinary people emerge from cheap boarding houses nightly to pour out their passions, hopes and dreams in the pubs and bars of fog-bound Soho and ...

In 1930s London ordinary people emerge from cheap boarding houses nightly to pour out their passions, hopes and dreams in the pubs and fog-bound streets of Soho and Fitzrovia. Step inside The Midnight ...

Production images have been released for Matthew Bourne’s award-winning THE MIDNIGHT BELL, which opened at the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham on Thursday 15 May, ahead of a 17-week countrywide tour ...

Matthew Bourne’s The Midnight Bell has released new photos for its 2025 tour. Inspired by novelist Patrick Hamilton (Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky, Hangover Square), the piece is set in 1930s ...