This retelling of The Nutcracker features a full orchestral performance and stunning choreography. An imaginative retelling of the classic ballet, featuring a full orchestral performance and stunning ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by A tour through five cases in which Tchaikovsky’s classical score has been taken up by jazz legends and misguided filmmakers. By Hugh Morris “The ...

Listen to how Tchaikovsky uses the celesta in “The Nutcracker,” unleashing the potential of the instrument to signal playfulness and fantasy. By Joshua Barone Photographs and Video by Vincent Tullo ...

The lights over the audience dim. The sound of the orchestra rises from the pit. As the curtain begins to rise, the Musical Arts Center is taken into a magical world, the world of “The Nutcracker.” ...

I’ll never forget the first time I saw a live production of The Nutcracker. Or, more accurately, I’ll never forget forgetting The Nutcracker. My parents, aggrieved by my assertion that the only ...

Weeks ahead of “George Balanchine’s ‘The Nutcracker,’ ” the Sugar Plum Fairy is getting ready to entertain. Her wand at hand, she has magic to command. At her palace in the Land of the Sweets the ...

A performance of Alexei Ratmansky's version of The Nutcracker, in Brooklyn, NYAndrea Mohin / The New York Times / Redux Though it was composed by a Russian and choreographed by a Frenchman in 1892, ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT)—An in-state rivalry, a journey through the land of sweets and performances of magical music you know and love. There are plenty of things to enjoy in central Kentucky this ...

The Joffrey Ballet’s critically-acclaimed reimagined classic, The Nutcracker by Tony Award®-winning choreographer Christopher Wheeldon, returns to the Lyric Opera House, 20 North Upper Wacker Drive, ...

“The Nutcracker” may be a steady reliable holiday tradition about nuts and candies, but that doesn’t mean it has to get stale. Even the companies that have been doing this familiar ballet for over ...