In Laurie Flaherty’s version of the Christmas ballet classic The Nutcracker, Clara Silberhaus has a new Italian name: Claire Spinelli. Her brother, Fritz, goes by Frankie. And their godfather, the ...

Clara dreams of becoming a ballerina and asks for a pair of pointe shoes for Christmas. And when Uncle Drosselmeyer's gift of a nutcracker transports her into a sugar plum dreamscape, Clara dances her ...

The new musical The Queen of Versailles is just days away from beginning preview performances at the St. James Theatre. With music by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Lindsey Ferrentino, the production ...

“The Nutcracker” ballet is perhaps the most sovereign and secular and ubiquitous signal that the Christmas season is fully under way. Productions proliferate and toy soldiers, waltzing flowers and ...

Visions of sugarplum fairies. Dancing snowflakes. Stout toy soldiers. A magical Christmas tree. Aspen Santa Fe Ballet's annual holiday confection, The Nutcracker, contains enough sugar and spice to ...

Every December, the New York City Ballet puts on their rendition of The Nutcracker, you know the story about a nutcracker that leads the toy soldiers into a battle with mice. And with the help of ...

On a Saturday afternoon two weeks before the opening of Aspen Santa Fe Ballet’s The Nutcracker, the kids in Act 1 were practicing the battle scene. Toy soldiers were fighting mice, and tiny girls in ...

The Performing Arts School of Central Pennsylvania Nittany Ballet will perform “The Nutcracker” at 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 14, and 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 15, in the Eisenhower Auditorium at Penn State ...