Review: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland at La Scala – it is pure joy
Graham Spicer sees Christopher Wheeldon’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in Milan – beneath the spectacle is a quiet emotional core.
Lewis Carroll
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Interview: Joss Arnott celebrating 15 years of his company with “Meet the Hatter”, the world’s greatest showman
The premiere of Joss Arnott Dance’s Meet the Hatter on 19 September 2025 marks the company’s 15th anniversary with its most ambitious project to date.
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Review: in a whirlwind of whimsy, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland returns to The Royal Ballet
Georgina Butler sees The Royal Ballet in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland brought to brilliantly bonkers life with beautiful dancing and bold designs.
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Review: Alice’s Big British Ballet – Wheeldon’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland receives US premiere
Scott C Morgan sees the Joffrey Ballet in Christopher Wheeldon’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – thoughtful with impressive dance and production dazzle.
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Review: Jasmin Vardimon’s ALiCE – a lost opportunity for depth and crafting
Lucía Piquero sees the Jasmin Vardimon Company in ALiCE – lots of tricks but the story didn’t gel.
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Review: Zoonation’s The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party at The Royal Opera House – Deliciously Mad
Kathrina Farrugia-Kriel sees Zoonation’s The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party at The Royal Opera House – “If this is the future of theatre entertainment, then this deliciously mad production is just what audiences need.”
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Critics Round-Up: An ‘imaginatively crafted delight’ or a ‘thin ballet’? Royal Ballet’s Alice
We know that the Royal Ballet‘s dancers are exceptional, we’ve seen that the designs and lighting are magical, but the jury is still out on whether Christopher Wheeldon’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland satisfies as a theatrical piece. Clement Crisp’s final paragraph from his Financial Times review of the current run was, But for all the unflagging energies, physical and…
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Christopher Wheeldon explains why his Alice ballet isn’t a slow-motion car crash
Luke Jennings, summing up the critics’ verdicts on the ‘McCartney Ballet’ in the Guardian‘s theatre blog, reflected on unsuccessful narrative ballets: Ballet’s gatekeepers tend to almost infinite credulity, and this, to a large extent, is why there are so many bad narrative ballets. Here in the UK there are dance directors who understand the nature…
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First reviews are out of Wheeldon’s Alice at the Royal Ballet
Neil Norman for The Daily Express has no doubt: I predict that Christopher Wheeldon‘s triumphant production of Lewis Carroll‘s immortal classic will become the must-see ballet for children and adults alike. As a full-length narrative ballet – the first commissioned by the Royal Ballet in sixteen years – it is a cogent and immensely entertaining…
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