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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A holiday classic is back! Every year around December, productions of The Nutcracker (especially the beloved New York City Ballet ...

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 ...

As the performing arts sector struggles to find its way back into the spotlight from the shadow of canceled shows, closed theatres and costly safety precautions, the ballet world is finally able to ...

The winter holidays are here, and so is “The Nutcracker,” showing in local theaters throughout the season. Picture the scene: The ballerina is lifted up high into the air to the glorious descending ...

For 66 years, the Atlanta Ballet has dazzled audiences with "The Nutcracker," set to Tchaikovsky's iconic score. While the classic holiday story and music haven't changed, the company has updated the ...

“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 ...

The two-act ballet "The Nutcracker" follows a family's Christmas Eve feast and a young girl's late-night awakening to love and the world. Moscow's Imperial Theatres director Ivan Vsevolozhsky ...

It's time once again for visions of sugarplums, dancing snowflakes and feisty rodents for all ages. Set to the masterpiece score by Pyotr Tchaikovsky (in most cases), E.T.A. Hoffman's story "The ...

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 ...