For many families, a trip to “The Nutcracker” is a nonnegotiable holiday tradition — as time-tested and treasured as “A Christmas Carol.” Much like the Dickensian play is to theater, “Nutcracker” is ...

It’s Christmas Eve. A girl is given a wooden nutcracker. She falls asleep; suddenly, she’s transported into another world, where toys are as tall as humans, mice rebel against their king, and flowers ...

Not quite, but an essay making the rounds this holiday is definitely calling out E.T.A. Hoffmann’s original 1816 tale, “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King,” for its “creepy” energy — and its ...

Enjoy a deliciously sweet performance of original works by CCM Dance faculty members and Act II of The Nutcracker ballet. On Christmas Eve, the Nutcracker Prince takes a curious young girl, Clara, on ...

The phrase “Dress for Success” is usually applied to business. Thanks to Lauren Shoemaker, it can be applied just as validly to The Mankato Ballet Company productions, as is the case in the upcoming ...

The unbounded success of Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” movie this summer followed by the Christmas season’s many stagings of “The Nutcracker,” danced to Tchaikovsky’s 1892 score, combined to spark my memory ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook Some conservative media took offense at a joy-filled holiday video shot at the White House. They’re missing the point. By Gia ...

Nothing says "It's Christmas" quite like the Louisville Ballet's iconic production of "The Brown-Forman Nutcracker." The ballet, which brings the classic story of Marie and her Nutcracker prince to ...