About half of the revenue for American ballet companies each year comes from the cozy seasonal favorite "The Nutcracker." Since COVID, they have become even more dependent on those sugarplum fairies.

This is a 45-minute-long version of the ballet featuring at least three of the best figure skaters from the *millennial gulp* ...

Listen to how Tchaikovsky uses the celesta in “The Nutcracker,” unleashing the potential of the instrument to signal playfulness and fantasy. By Joshua Barone Photographs and Video by Vincent Tullo ...

Even people who have never seen "The Nutcracker" ballet often are familiar with the sounds of the treasured yuletide title, from the "March of the Toy Soldiers" to the "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy." ...

When “The Nutcracker” opens at Music Hall on Dec. 18, Cincinnati Ballet audiences will meet a new music director, Alyssa Wang ...

PHOENIX — Musicians in a cramped space under a Phoenix stage send up the familiar tones of “The Nutcracker.” Overhead, satin-and-glue pointed toes pitter-patter across stage in a performance of the ...

The lights over the audience dim. The sound of the orchestra rises from the pit. As the curtain begins to rise, the Musical Arts Center is taken into a magical world, the world of “The Nutcracker.” ...