One popular staple of the holiday season in our town for years has been a performance by the Aiken Civic Ballet of Peter Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker.” Under the admirable guidance of multi-talented ...

Do you like your holiday classics with a little Pep & Pizzazz? Local audiences have for over a decade now. Local dance, gymnastics and cheer studio Pep & Pizzazz returns its production of the beloved ...

"It's crazy. It's broken. It doesn't make any sense," he said of the beloved ballet's plot. So he wrote a novel to fix it ...

As the holiday season approaches, theatre groups nationwide are working hard to retell a classic Christmastime story—The Nutcracker, a traditional holiday ballet set to the music of Russian composer ...

Alexandre Dumas, the famed French author of swashbuckling adventures, such as The Three Musketeers (1844), The Count of Monte Cristo (1846) and The Man in the Iron Mask (1848–50), was an admirer of ...

(This story was updated because an earlier version included an inaccuracy.) When tackling well-known works like “The Nutcracker,” ballet companies are challenged with not reinventing the wheel.

Children take in the decorations at the Paine Art Center. Seeing a production of the Nutcracker is a holiday tradition for many Wisconsinites. For fans of the classical ballet – there's an opportunity ...

Have there been mice on your Tik Tok feed? Dancing mice? The mice in performances of "The Nutcracker" have been going viral lately. Here's what to know about the beloved "Nutcracker Ballet." "The ...

Ana and Junio of That Brazilian Couple. Photo Courtesy of Jhtheadshots Ana and Junio of That Brazilian Couple. Photo Courtesy of Jhtheadshots Ana Luiza Luizi and Junio Enrique of That Brazilian Couple ...

"The Immersive Nutcracker, a Winter Miracle" is coming to the Wisconsin Center, 400 W. Wisconsin Ave., where it will share space Dec. 1-31 with the immersive "Beyond Monet" spectacle already in ...

There are many things that signal "it's the holidays," from Black Friday to 24-hour holiday music on the radio to eggnog lattes on the cafe menu. For theater and dance lovers, it isn't Christmas-time ...