When “The Nutcracker” needs new clothes, ballet companies turn to pros like Holly Hynes. The New Jersey-based costume designer has emerged as a go-to tutu-maker for the holiday classic.

So between the fabric moving up, and the wall moving off ... Boston Ballet's production of "The Nutcracker" runs at the Citizen Bank Opera House through New Year's Eve.

Friday afternoon, the annual rite of the season begins in earnest at McCaw Hall-- Pacific Northwest Ballet's sumptuous production of "The Nutcracker." There are 40 performances in total ...

Nearly everything worn onstage during PNB’s “Nutcracker” was created by hand. Fabrics for costumes like the Candy Canes, which Falconer sketched with diagonal green and red lines ...

A lot of the fabrics that were used back then, like antique satin, are no longer available,” says Happel, describing the unique challenges that maintaining the magic of The Nutcracker presents.

For many families, “The Nutcracker” is a beloved holiday ritual ... Except she was stuck in the mesh fabric of the wing. “The wing, like, ate her crown,” Johnson says.

Still, some bit of Nutcracker inventory is always in the ... they’re attached to sculpted fabric hobbyhorses—“and the horse has ears, and it’s fun to play with the ears,” Fox said ...

Jeffrey Brown: On a recent night at the Boston Opera House, audiences braved New England's chill for a beloved Christmas tradition presented by the Boston Ballet. "The Nutcracker," with music by ...

Not quite, but an essay making the rounds this holiday is definitely calling out E.T.A. Hoffmann’s original 1816 tale, “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King,” for its “creepy” energy ...