The Royal Albert Hall turns out to be a wonderful venue for Birmingham Royal Ballet's transporting Nutcracker.

The Washington Ballet’s production featured a plethora of 19th-century Americanisms. The program sets the scene for Act I in 19th-century Georgetown. Clara’s “mysterious godfather” gives ...

Among the guests is Clara’s godfather ... have a Sugar Plum Fairy. My personal favorite is Mother Ginger and her oversized dress. She has 7 little bonbons pop out and dance.

The story follows Clara (Samaya Sabera), a young girl who receives a nutcracker from her godfather ... "Waltz of the Flowers," "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy," and "Sugar Plum Fairy and Her ...

It’s a classic Christmas story and ballet that's become a holiday tradition worldwide. It originated as a fairy tale written ... receives as a gift from her godfather, Herr Drosselmeyer.

The ballet tells the classic Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale of close friends Kai ... with Hungary, with his godfather.” For a while, the reunited family could think of nothing but being ...

Bill Condon’s ‘Kiss of the Spider Woman’ musical, Questlove’s Sly Stone documentary, and more are among the films headed to ...

It’s the job of a ballet dancer to inhabit fairy tales and their archetypes ... the quiet WASP who married into the Corleone family in “The Godfather.” And yet it was Eleanor who so sharply ...

In Act I, the story unfolds at a Christmas Eve party where Clara (sometimes called Marie) receives a unique nutcracker doll as a gift from her mysterious godfather ... with his compositions “Dance of ...

Like the beloved fairy tales we grew up with ... But if you look closely, there are even sly nods to The Godfather and mafia culture in general, including a very “blink and you’ll miss ...

What would Christmas be without the Nutcracker Ballet? It serves as every aspiring ballet dancer’s rite of passage. The ...