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

If ballet needed street evangelists to get new students, it would be wise to send the Sugar Plum Fairy. Each time she steps onstage in the lead role of “The Nutcracker,” she converts at least one more ...

Jennifer Bostian has never seen Tchaikovsky’s “Nutcracker” ballet. And she’s certainly never dreamed of being part of the production. But on Dec. 5, she’ll do both. She will see the magical holiday ...

Disney’s “The Nutcracker and the Four Realms” opened to a paltry $20.4 million ($58.5 million worldwide) last weekend, a box office bomb given its production budget of $130 million. But it is far from ...

Father Herring performs with dancers during Sitka's Nutcracker ballet in Alaska. When Melinda McAdams moved to the fishing community of Sitka, Alaska, in 1993, no one in town knew how to dance on ...

"The Nutcracker" is more than an annual performance for the Lone Star Ballet; it's a family tradition for the many students and parents who dance in the production each season. The cast works to ...