For the first time, New York City Ballet has cast a Black performer as Marie in its production of The Nutcracker, the classic holiday ballet that’s an introduction to the artform for many children.

With shows through Monday, a classic holiday tale gets a modern twist in the current mainstage theater production at Bates. Martin Andrucki, Charles A. Dana Professor of Theater, has adapted German ...

A terrible warning: English National Ballet perform The Nutcracker, inspired by Hoffmann's tale - Alastair Muir Two centuries after his death, E T A Hoffmann’s ­influence is far-reaching. He’s the ...

Marie spends nearly the entire two hours of the "Brown-Forman Nutcracker Ballet" onstage. She's the character who leads the audience through a magical dream, and they see the wonder of Christmas ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK – For the first time, New York City ...

Philadelphia’s acclaimed non-traditional holiday favorite One-Man Nutcracker will return for the 2025 holiday season, running ...

For many Chicagoans, The Joffrey Ballet’s iconic take on “The Nutcracker” is their Christmas moment of beautiful peace, of brilliant eye candy and even a little bit of zen. Wondering what the highly ...

You can't help but enjoy the wide-eyed, lively enthusiasm that greeted the first "Nutcrackers" of the season this weekend, both at San Francisco Ballet and Ballet San Jose. While newcomers to the ...

An 11-year-old ballerina who is the first black dancer to play Marie in the New York City Ballet's production of George Balanchine's The Nutcracker says she thought she was 'dreaming' when she scored ...

Two centuries after his death, E T A Hoffmann’s ­influence is far-reaching. He’s the cursed, drunken hero of ­Jacques Offenbach’s opera The Tales of Hoffmann. His 1817 short story The Sandman inspired ...

For the first time, New York City Ballet has cast a black Marie in its annual production of “George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker,” which premiered in 1954. This season, the leading role of the young ...