The Nutcracker returns to Houston Ballet with a full cast, 61 company dancers and more than 300 young dancers, for the first time since the start of the pandemic.
Nothing says holiday tradition around town like making your way down to the Wortham Theater Center to see
The Nutcracker each year. Well, it’s anything but a normal year, but despite living in a post-COVID world, the Houston Ballet and Artistic Director Stanton Welch have attempted to make lemonade within the lemon-tations of the year in the form of
Nutcracker Sweets. The hour-long mixed repertory makes the necessary move to cyberspace, with a program featuring two new works from Welch, a new work spotlighting Houston Ballet II and Students of Houston Ballet Academy, and an abbreviated version of
The Nutcracker culled together from footage taken in 2018.