We are delighted to present The Matthew Bourne Collection, a new 5-disc boxset on DVD and Blu-ray that brings together five landmark Bourne productions from 2015 – 2020. The beautifully presented boxset showcases the very best of New more
We're thrilled to announce that Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake releases on DVD and Blu-ray on 14th July 2020. Lockdown may have slowed us down, but we've been working hard behind the scenes and we got there in more
The artist, Christo Javacheff, passed away at the end of last month at the age of 84. Christo collaborated with his wife, Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon, and they were credited in their work as Christo and Jeanne-Claude, a name he more
Matthew Bourne's spectacular sell-out productions, Swan Lake, Romeo + Juliet, Cinderella, and The Car Man are now available for streaming and download from our Film Shop, Vimeo, Amazon Prime, and other selected platforms. It's the more
We hope that you've enjoyed Christmas. To brighten your January we're offering our fabulous how-best-to-get-to-know Shakespeare film, Muse of Fire, as a new download. Made by filmmakers Dan Poole and Giles Terera, it attempts to demystify the work of more
We will be closed between 20th December and 6th January. Wishing you a very merry Christmas from all of us at Illuminations. Here are our last-minute gift ideas which we hope will inspire you: Matthew Bourne's Cinderella (DVD or Blu-ray): A more
My book Screening the Royal Shakespeare Company: A Critical History is published this coming week by Bloomsbury as part of The Arden Shakespeare series. I own to being very pleased about this, and I am writing a series of more
John Wyver writes: Today would have been the 100th birthday of Sam Wanamaker (pictured above as Iago in Stratford in 1959), the American actor and director who conceived the idea and campaigned for many years to build the replica more
Our colleague TOM ALLEN reflects on postmodernism and history, on the ideas of Frederic Jameson and Karl Marx, and on the art of Vincent Van Gogh, Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat. I was recently re-reading the first chapter of Frederic Jameson's more
Opening later this month at Barbican Art Gallery is Basquiat: Boom for Real (21 September - 28 January) . The first substantial retrospective in this country of the work of Jean-Michael Basquiat, it is one the hot exhibition tickets more