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.

Around 150 dancers will grace the Castle Theater stage for "The Nutcracker." Chelsea Fine/Sea Fine Photography For the fifth year in a row, Alexander Academy of Performing Arts will present ...

In a return to a classic, time-honored ballet tradition, the Jacobs School of Music’s Opera and Ballet Theater will present its performance of “The Nutcracker” beginning Friday at the Musical Arts ...

It took me two decades but in December 2008, I finally attended The Joffrey Ballet’s iconic “The Nutcracker,” just in time for that 21st anniversary run of Chicagoland’s most popular family holiday ...

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s ballet “The Nutcracker,” set on Christmas Eve, was a flop when it was first staged in 1892, but since then — and especially after America and England got ahold of it in the ...