Nearly half of the revenue for large American ballet companies each year comes from the cozy seasonal favorite The Nutcracker ...

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 story was updated because an earlier version included an inaccuracy.) When tackling well-known works like “The Nutcracker,” ballet companies are challenged with not reinventing the wheel.

It may not feel like Christmas walking around Houston, but inside the NRG Center, the holidays are here. Houston Ballet's Nutcracker Market is back for its 45 th year. And 2025 is expected to draw ...

The Belleville School of Ballet’s annual “The Nutcracker” has been an anticipated event for 40 years. Founder Patti Woods Harrington thinks the main reason is that memories are made that bring joy to ...

Photojournalist Anna Chadwick captures an intimate look at process of staging the Bossov Ballet Theatre's annual show.

The Nutcracker is the cheesiest ballet of all time. That may enrage some readers for whom attending The Nutcracker is a beloved Christmastime tradition. But as a former dancer who has performed or ...

In extending its tradition, The Utah Review, with the assistance of Christal Jackson, an English teacher and ELL coordinator ...

In 1892, composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and choreographer Marius Petipa debuted “The Nutcracker,” a two-act ballet about a young girl named Clara who receives a nutcracker for Christmas. When the ...

It’s that “most wonderful time of the year,” and by that I mean “Nutcracker” season. This holiday the ballet should be more welcome than ever: It’s the perfect antidote to post-election stress and a ...

Is there a neuroscientist in the house? I need a latterday Oliver Sacks to tell me about earworms, specifically earworms issuing from the music of Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky.

Alexandr Kryazhev/RIA Novosti The original story of “The Nutcracker” was part of a group of fairytales written by the German Romantic writer E.T.A. Hoffman published in Berlin in 1816. Alexandre Dumas ...