It takes some doing in this country to be more than about 25 miles from a production of “The Nutcracker” during the Christmas season. The ballet has become as American as Friday Night Lights and as ...

set to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's musical score is filled with fantastical characters, childlike whimsy and Christmas magic. But with 26 shows scheduled this season, “The Nutcracker” is more than just ...

“The Nutcracker” is a classic for a reason. The show is a holiday tradition at ballet companies around the world, and has served as inspiration for a great many ballerinas who saw it as children and ...

In a classic ballet performance of The Nutcracker, you can enjoy a spectacle of dancing, gift-giving, magical voyages through lands of snow, waltzing flowers, and a happy sugar-plum fairy who dotes ...

While Tchaikovsky’s “Waltz of the Snowflakes” averages just over six minutes in length, the physical and mental preparation of those Snowflakes has most likely started weeks or even months before ...

One popular staple of the holiday season in our town for years has been a performance by the Aiken Civic Ballet of Peter Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker.” Under the admirable guidance of multi-talented ...

NPR's A Martinez speaks with Washington Post dance critic Sarah Kaufman about how The Nutcracker ballet is responding to COVID-19 concerns this year. It's that time of year again, people putting up ...

"The Nutcracker" might be a family favorite today, but back in the 1890s, the uber-famous ballet was a critical flop. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky premiered his now internationally beloved ballet "The ...

Tiler Peck (center) delivers a dazzling, sugarplum of a performance as Dewdrop in NYCB’s “Nutcracker,” now in its 58th year. Paul Kolnik It’s hard to keep a nearly 60-year-old party lively, especially ...