You can hardly overstate the extent to which The Nutcracker belongs to the fabric of American Christmas ritual and celebration. The Sugar Plum Fairy is right up there beside Ebenezer Scrooge ...

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.

His sketch for the namesake Nutcracker, which began appearing Thursday ... testing dye colors for fabrics that will be made into pants for some of the ballet's Cadets and Cooks.

And patterned fabrics were popular in both men’s and ... And she imagines a “Nutcracker” backstory, too. “This isn’t a royal family celebrating Christmas,” she points out.

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 ...

When George Balanchine’s “The Nutcracker” was first staged in 1954 ... 3,000 square yards of fabric, 343 gallons of paint and 30 cubic feet of fake snow. Perhaps inspired by George ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

You can hardly overstate the extent to which The Nutcracker belongs to the fabric of American Christmas ritual and celebration. The Sugar Plum Fairy is right up there beside Ebenezer Scrooge ...