If ballet needed street evangelists to get new students, it would be wise to send the Sugar Plum Fairy. Each time she steps onstage in the lead role of “The Nutcracker,” she converts at least one more ...

Disney’s “The Nutcracker and the Four Realms” opened to a paltry $20.4 million ($58.5 million worldwide) last weekend, a box office bomb given its production budget of $130 million. But it is far from ...

Jennifer Bostian has never seen Tchaikovsky’s “Nutcracker” ballet. And she’s certainly never dreamed of being part of the production. But on Dec. 5, she’ll do both. She will see the magical holiday ...

Former Orange County chairman, Chapin is Orange County clerk of the court and a candidate for Congress. The Nutcracker is no mere ballet. For many, it is a holiday tradition as essential as trimming ...

Like a seasoned actor returning again and again to a famous role, Rider Vierling finds a new dimension each year in his portrayal of Fritz in The Nutcracker. Never mind that he’s only 13. Or that the ...

It's the story of little girl, a toy that turns into a prince and an evil mouse. A simple tale of a child's fantasy, transformed through music and dance into a holiday tradition for generations of ...