26th January 2021
We are pleased to announce the release of our authoritative collection of exhibition documentaries for download exclusively from our website. It is the first time these films have been available digitally and we're excited to be giving them a new
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31st December 2020
Even if our initial instinct is to wish fervently to forget the year that's passing, we want to take just a moment to recall below the productions that we've worked on with wonderful collaborators over the past 12 months.
Meanwhile,
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22nd December 2020
Today is Jean-Michel Basquiat's birthday. Had he not died of a heroin overdose in 1988 he would be 60 years old. For someone whose painting career only lasted eight years at most and an additional three as a street artist,
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9th November 2020
It's twenty-five years 25th since Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake first appeared on stage at Sadler's Wells on 9th November 1995, starring Adam Cooper as the Swan/Stranger and the late Scott Ambler as The Prince.
In celebration of this anniversary,
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2nd November 2020
Although he had expressed unacceptably misogynist views in a number of interviews, the passing of Sean Connery is a moment for sadness, and for admiration of an astonishing career. We are particularly fond of his appearance
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18th August 2020
We are delighted to announce that Matthew Bourne's Romeo + Juliet is released on DVD and Blu-ray on the 25 August. This is our fourth Matthew Bourne dance release and follows Swan Lake, The Car
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9th July 2020
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
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10th June 2020
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
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26th April 2020
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
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10th April 2020
With four days of holidays stretching ahead, here are some suggestions of streaming and download treats from Illuminations. New titles are now available including Being Shakespeare, Art of Faith II and Harold Pinter's Nobel Prize-winning speech, Art, Truth & Politics.
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