The holidays aren’t the holidays without a Nutcracker ballet production, and the experience promises to be even sweeter this time around. George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker, opening Thursday night at ...

Houston Ballet’s costume shop, in late November, bursts at the seams with costumes for the The Nutcracker. When I visited the week before Thanksgiving, the show’s 1,750 opulent costumes bulged from ...

“The Nutcracker is a blessing and a curse,” says Chris Takashima. “We call it a beast.” She’s not talking casting or choreography—it’s the costuming that makes her head spin faster than a dancer doing ...

After a successful $5 million capital campaign, Milwaukee Ballet is rolling out a new edition of "The Nutcracker" in December, with new costumes, new sets, more children and some new choreography. But ...

The weather outside was stormy and warmish. Inside the Houston Ballet's wardroom shop, it was chilly enough to craft snowflakes. There, in a space that looks like a cross between a kitchen and a ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) – The Richmond Ballet is in full preparation mode for their holiday production of ‘The Nutcracker’ at the Dominion Energy Center. The Richmond Ballet will perform 17 productions ...

The story opens on Christmas Eve with a busy party scene with six dancing couples and many young dancers recruited from the community. During the celebration Herr Drosselmeyer presents his goddaughter ...

It’s officially holiday season in Las Vegas when the red battledress, plum tutu and Mouse Queen mask come out of Nevada Ballet Theatre’s immense costume closet. The Nutcracker, built upon Pyotr Ilyich ...

“We made a set of rubies,” said Howard Merlin, Boston Ballet’s director of costumes. “But diamonds and emeralds we’re renting from National Ballet of Canada.” In late October, Merlin and his staff of ...

As the performing arts sector struggles to find its way back into the spotlight from the shadow of canceled shows, closed theatres and costly safety precautions, the ballet world is finally able to ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by After the pandemic pause, nearly 130 costumes had to be remade for a cast that’s older and taller. Built in? Ways to adjust them back down in size. By ...