the nutcracker

You can see The Hip Hop Nutcracker December 17th at The Bushnell.

“A Night at the Ballet,” is a free streaming event that premieres on Thursday. The event, filmed in a small New York theater, will treat ballet-starved fans to dancers from America’s top companies performing excerpts of classical ballets like “Romeo and Juliet, “The Nutcracker” and “Don Quixote.”

With families wondering how they will celebrate the holidays during coronavirus shutdowns, the Hill-Stead Museum and Ballet Theatre Company have partnered to bring The Nutcracker to life with a costume exhibition and ballet performances in a life-sized snow globe.

The coronavirus has hit one part of the arts and entertainment world especially hard, and that’s performances of “The Nutcracker.”

NBC Connecticut anchors Kerri-Lee Mayland and Kevin Nathan rewind some of their most memorable moments from 2019 as they reported from all over Connecticut, including behind the scenes, exclusive looks at where bears roam, 50 Cent’s former mansion, Vineyard Vines headquarters and Winterfest on skates.