All the 'Nutcracker and the Four Realms' team wanted for Christmas was the perfect adaptation of a holiday classic, and they were willing to do anything to get it — even if it meant 32 days of ...

Dumbo, The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, and Beauty and the Beast all feature young female protagonists whose sole distinguishing trait is that they love science. It’s well-intentioned, but ...

For “The Nutcracker,” typically two makeup and hair specialists run each performance. But other ballets require a much larger team due to wigs, specialty makeup, or both.

T his year, on stages and venues throughout the area, there will be angels earning their wings, mice and toy soldiers going to battle and ginger children emerging from the cover of their mother ...

“There’s certain music in the Nutcracker that just makes my skin crawl,” jokes Joseph J. Bucheck III, a 70-year-old semiretired character performer who lives in North Palm Beach, Fla.

Clara is the central female character in the production. Sheridan Guerin joined the Colorado Ballet as a Studio Company Member for the 2019/2020 season and was eventually promoted to the Corps de ...

Conceived just a smidge over two centuries ago, E.T.A. Hoffmann’s 1816 short story “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King” has been told and retold so many times over the years — as a ballet ...

The New York City Ballet’s production of “The Nutcracker” has cast a black dancer to play Marie for the first time. The New York Times reports Charlotte Nebres will star in this year’s ...

A new character is featured in the Land of Sweets in Pacific Northwest Ballet’s “Nutcracker” this year: Green Tea Cricket, a springy, superhero-like figure meant to counter stereotypes of ...