On a recent night at the Boston Opera House, audiences braved New England's chill for a beloved Christmas tradition presented by the Boston Ballet. "The Nutcracker," with music by Tchaikovsky ...

Designer Dick Bird has taken the idea of Edwardian England and run headlong with ... this sweet-toothed new Nutcracker of ENB’s is a definite step up from the old, and one that I can imagine ...

“It’s less about the brother breaking the nutcracker, and more about his dream, of old Brooklyn and then this new space that he’s wandering around in that is now.” Drosselmeyer isn’t a ballet dancer, ...