There’s a reason why this production of this ballet keeps returning to the Royal Albert Hall, and while public demand isn’t ...

English National Ballet ’s unfeasibly pretty Nutcracker is both a festive treat and a fudgy fable about the sticky business of approaching adulthood. Clara begins as a little girl and ends as – well, ...

Returning for its first anniversary, Arielle Smith and Aaron S Watkin’s Nutcracker for English National Ballet remains a feast for hungry eyes, despite its flaws.

Nutcracker at the London Coliseum review: a sugary confection of festive delight - 4/5 This unfeasibly pretty Nutcracker slips down easily, buoyed by the liquid toffee of Tchaikovsky’s tunes ...

Is there a neuroscientist in the house? I need a latterday Oliver Sacks to tell me about earworms, specifically earworms issuing from the music of Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky.

Read our review of Olivier Award-winning theatre company Little Bulb's *The Nutcracker* now in performances at St. Martin's Theatre through 4 January 2026. Read more theatre reviews on ...

When I first saw The Nutcracker around a quarter of a century ago, I became sure of one thing: either I was on drugs, the cast were on drugs or we both were. A far cry from the more prosaic nature of ...

If time, location or affordability are keeping you from seeing the ballet, a bold new production of 'Nutcracker' premiering ...