In 1995, Matthew Bourne rose to international prominence for his daring reimagining of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, casting male dancers for the corps of swans and lending the story's themes of forbidden love additional undercurrents of repression and struggles of sexual identity. The ballet forged a creative partnership between Los Angeles' Center Theatre Group and Bourne when it was first performed at the Ahmanson Thea…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 05:55PM on December 6, 2019