NEW YORK — Melody Campbell-Goeken remembers taking her son to see "The Nutcracker" for the first — and as it turned out last — time when he was 5 years old, at the Municipal Auditorium in San Antonio, ...

This enchanting story tells the tale of how Clara is given a wooden nutcracker as a Christmas present by Dr Drosselmeyer. During the Christmas party Clara and her brother Fritz fight over the ...

In 1892, composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and choreographer Marius Petipa debuted “The Nutcracker,” a two-act ballet about a young girl named Clara who receives a nutcracker for Christmas. When the ...

In his story treatment, Wright eschews any Freudian flights of fancy and gives the original scenario one simple but effective twist: making Drosselmeyer, gifter of the Nutcracker doll, into an urbane, ...

A gay pride nutcracker sold at Target is selling out at many stores and online. Twitter screenshot A nutcracker sold at Target is proving to be a hot commodity this Christmas season, selling out in ...

Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker” is a great fantasy. As presented by Chicago’s Joffrey Ballet and the Cleveland Orchestra, however, it’s a dance lover’s dream come true. Between opulent visual elements, ...

The unbounded success of Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” movie this summer followed by the Christmas season’s many stagings of “The Nutcracker,” danced to Tchaikovsky’s 1892 score, combined to spark my memory ...