But it wasn’t always so successful. Dueling duetJames Streeter as the Mouse King (left) spars with Junor Souza, playing the Nutcracker, in a 2010 production of Tchaikovsky’s classic ballet ...

In 1816, German writer E.T.A. Hoffmann penned “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King” (sometimes translated as “Nutcracker and the King of Mice”), a story in which a young girl named Marie Sta ...

The heroine plagued with a cocaine addiction The original story, “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King,” was written by German author E. T. A. Hoffmann in 1816 and then adapted into Pyotr Ilyich ...

The Nutcracker and the Mouse King is a story written in 1816 by E T A Hoffmann in which young Marie Stahlbaums favorite Christmas toy the Nutcracker comes alive and after defeating the evil Mouse ...

Out of nowhere, large mice dressed in army uniforms, and lead by the terrifying Mouse King, began to circle the room! Clara’s brave Nutcracker grouped the toy soldiers into battle formation ...

But “George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker” is also about something ... Mother Ginger and the Mouse King. But the kids are the ballet’s heart, the glue — what guides us down that path ...

Though Wörtmeyer is new to BalletMet, he’s no stranger to the tale of young Clara, who receives a nutcracker doll for Christmas and dreams it comes to life and battles the wicked Mouse King.