The Nutcracker

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Birmingham Royal Ballet has shared that their CEO Caroline Miller passed away on Sunday 15 December. Read her full obituary here and learn more about Miller's legacy.

 Miami City Ballet will open 2025 with Winter Mix, a program celebrating the artistry of women in dance and music throughout South Florida. Learn more about the program here!

Sky Arts Freeview has announced its upcoming lineup of broadcasts for the holiday season, including several musicals any theatre lover can enjoy. The lineup includes The Nutcracker, La Traviata, Edward Scissorhands, Titanic the Musical, and more.

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It has been some time coming. For nearly 15 years English National Ballet enthusiastically performed Wayne Eagling’s Nutcracker, a traditional but rather staid production with a fuzzy narrative and lacking opportunity for the company to shine.

Australia’s leading Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander performing arts company, Bangarra Dance Theatre, has announced Arabana and Gurindji man Eli Clarke, and Biripi and Worimi woman Roxie Syron, as the Russell Page Graduate dancers for 2025. 

What do you call a nun who can sing? A sister act!  And what do you call four nuns and a monk who sing and dance during Christmas? “Nuncrackers!” now playing weekends at Desert Theatreworks through December 29.

Rocky Mountain Dance Theatre will present the return of Randy Pacheco as the guest artist performing the role of the Cavalier and Jessica McNeil as the Sugar Plum Fairy for this year's 27th Annual Nutcracker Ballet. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Come join The Paradise Factory for a magical evening filled with Burlesque, Comedy, and Shadow Puppetry. Watch as talented performers bring this classic Christmas tale to life on stage right before your eyes in a fresh new way. Learn more!

​Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra will present a family- focused concert, Musical Super Heroes at War Memorial Hall. Learn more about the family-friendly concert and see how to attend.

Carlos Acosta's touring show is a delightful Christmassy treat

The Jinkx and DeLa Holiday Show made a highly anticipated tour stop at the Pantages Theatre in Minneapolis, Minnesota, delivering a spectacular holiday experience. Starring the inimitable Jinkx Monsoon and BenDeLaCreme, this show marks the duo's seventh year of spreading festive cheer together.

St. Louis is never lacking outstanding theatre, whether epic Broadway shows, engrossing dramas or bold fringe offerings. BroadwayWorld is rounding up our top recommended theatre every month. Our picks for December 2024 include MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET CHRISTMAS & more.

During this season of giving, Central Indiana Dance Ensemble will present free presentations of the holiday classic The Nutcracker in various venues around Central Indiana. Learn more and see how to attend.

Ballet Hispánico's Pa'lante Junior Ensemble, from the pre-professional Pa'lante training program, will be joining in the Catskill Mountain Foundation's Orpheum Dance Program in the ninth annual performance of The Nutcracker. Learn more!

Tulsa Ballet’s The Nutcracker, which premiered in 2021, features exciting choreography, colorful costumes, larger-than-life moving sets, and live accompaniment by the Tulsa Symphony Orchestra!

There’s the Nutcracker and then there is the Nutcracker Rouge. While the traditional ballet is more formal and family-friendly, Nutcracker Rouge is anything but, making for an alluring adult-only spectacle of incredible talent mixed with naughty decadence and a bit of raunchy humor, too. Nutcracker Rouge is not only a ballet but part circus and burlesque, reconstructing everything that we once thought of the original Christmas performance and creating something new and sparkly.

​​​​​​​ The Center of Creative Arts (COCA) in St. Louis, Missouri will present a new production of The Nutcracker by Tom Gold Dance Founder and Director Tom Gold.

Gillian Murphy, a Principal Dancer with American Ballet Theatre since 2002 and the Company's longest-standing current dancer, will take her final bow in the iconic role of Odette/Odile in Swan Lake on Friday, July 18, 2025, at the Metropolitan Opera House.  

The Seacoast Repertory Theatre's production of 'The Nutcracker' is a delightful reimagining of the classic ballet that creates a very different holiday magic.