The critics were not kind after the first performance of “The Nutcracker” ballet in 1892 in St. Petersburg, Russia. The battle scene was called clumsy, the costumes were described as dull, and the ...

Few things evoke the holiday spirit quite like the instantly recognizable “Nutcracker” score. Composed in 1892 by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, the iconic music plays as important a role in the show as the ...

He's been a Tony-awarded lyricist and director of "Forbidden Broadway," but now Gerard Alessandrini has taken on a new role. Exterminator. In his new version of Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker" — ...

It is, for so many of us, the permanent soundtrack of the holiday season. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s ballet “The Nutcracker,” like no other music, conjures up images for me of warm fireplaces, ...

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 ...

The Christmas season is over, almost two months gone now. Nobody’s thinking much about the “Nutcracker.” John Stubbs is. The longtime San Diego violinist and ...

In fact, for Cincinnati Ballet, it’s “Nutcracker” time for the 51st year. (That’s 52 if you count the 2020 pandemic version, an hourlong TV broadcast.) There are other long-running holiday traditions ...

The Dallas Symphony Orchestra played Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker," with Maurice Cohn at the helm, at Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas on Friday, Nov. 25, 2022. Allison Slomowitz / Special ...

The demanding footwork and Freudian undertones of Rudolf Nureyev’s “The Nutcracker” performed by the Vienna State Ballet is available to view on Carnegie Hall+. Adults dance the main children’s roles ...

Dance companies presenting renditions of Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker” ballet have become as synonymous with the Christmas season as decorated trees and Santa Claus. Audiences who come to see the ...

“The Nutcracker” has become an annual holiday tradition, but if you’re looking for a new twist on the classic story, check out the virtual remix “The Hip-Hop Nutcracker.” Strathmore will stream the ...