Joffrey's Chicago-set 'Nutcracker' has become truly alive
Many of the walnuts, ragamuffins, snowflakes and rats are new. But the dancers of the Joffrey Ballet who form the emotional core of choreographer Christopher Wheeldon's revisionist exploration of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker," a gorgeously visualized work staged at the historic Auditorium...