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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cincinnati Ballet wardrobe supervisor Noelle Wedig-Johnston says she gets one question a lot: “How long does it take to build a tutu?” More than likely, people ask her how long it takes to make a tutu ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a classic ballet performance of The Nutcracker, you can enjoy a spectacle of dancing, gift-giving, magical voyages through lands of snow, waltzing flowers, and a happy sugar-plum fairy who dotes ...

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 ...