Ovation, the only multi-platform network celebrating all forms of artistic expression, is continuing its holiday tradition with the 5th annual Battle of the Nutcrackers programming event kicking ...

Two worthy challengers — the classical music of Tchaikovsky and the jazzy sounds of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn — will “Duke it Out!” in a battle of competing versions of “The ...

I cherish this opportunity to share what I love so much with an audience that is so big. In a report from DanceUSA, “The Nutcracker” makes up an average of 48 percent of revenue for American ballet ...

The heroic Nutcracker is battling a lot more than the Mouse King this year. With the local and long-running Dancers Studio Inc., he’s also fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.

When Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker premiered in St. Petersburg in 1892, it flopped. But in the last 50 years, it’s become a holiday classic—and today, there are more than 750 versions being danced in ...

In one gruesome battle between this nutcracker prince and the seven-headed mouse king, Marie falls, ostensibly in a fevered dream, into a glass cabinet, cutting her arm badly.

At this rehearsal, “The Nutcracker” leads his wooden soldiers into battle against an army of mice led by the Mouse King, but there’s never a doubt who’s the commanding general and drill ...

Looks as if “The Nutcracker” got a visit from the PC Fairy. The Boston Ballet’s annual performance is one of the city’s most cherished holiday traditions, highlighted by the epic battle ...

E.T.A. Hoffmann’s “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King” tells the tale of our young heroine, who only sees the nutcracker come to life while she sleeps and sees him battle a seven-headed mouse ...

Sometimes, Christmas arrives looking just like a postcard, and then it gets better and better. OK, maybe not at your house, but consider “The Nutcracker,” in which Clara’s fun Christmas Eve ...

The ballet's child-centered tale is drawn from “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King,” the 1816 novella by E.T.A. Hoffmann, a much more grotesque story. Like his contemporaries the brothers Grimm ...