63 stories by "Alastair Macaulay"
The Puerto Rican singer Gilberto Santa Rosa and the Ukrainian-born dancers Karina Smirnoff and Maksim Chmerkovskiy star in a revival of Luis Bravo's popular "Forever Tango." …
Richard Nelson's new play, "Nikolai and the Others," gives an intimate portrait of Balanchine at work with Stravinsky on the ballet "Orpheus."
The choreography in this season's Broadway shows ran the gamut from circus acrobatics, to princely magic and character-revealing leaps.
How do you react to the look of a naked body onstage? Thirty-four years ago, as part of a friend's bachelor party, I went to a London strip club with a group of seven other men. We were all …
There is no single method for choreography to succeed in a musical, and this year's Tony Award nominees take distinct approaches.
A series of online videos documented the choreographer and his work.
The Cunningham company's Repertory Understudy Group, known as the RUGs, ended performances at the Cunningham Studio.
David Hallberg, a principal dancer with American Ballet Theater, will join the Bolshoi Ballet of Moscow, the first American to do so.
New York City Ballet's touring ensemble made its debut in Vail, Colo., with old and new works like Jerome Robbins's "Dances at a Gathering" and Christopher Wheeldon's "Polyphonia."
New York City Ballet presents a triple bill with music by Richard Rodgers, Duke Ellington and Leonard Bernstein.
Whenever anyone tells you they want never to hear the "Nutcracker" music again, you know they haven't really been listening to it.
Alexei Ratmansky's 'Nutcracker' for ABT is engrossing throughout.
This is the 25th "Nutcracker" production I've seen this season, and of the 23 I've seen for the first time it strikes me as the most perfect.
In truth this doesn't remotely qualify as Greatest Anything. The music is taped; lighting problems cause several awkward blackouts during the performance; when the Christmas tree grows, it c…
The audience for David Parker's "Nut/Cracked," admittedly, has little in common with most "Nutcracker" audiences.
A "Nutcracker" by a founder of the Trocks surprisingly contains no drag scenes.
At Ballet Arizona, the children shine amid desert dreams of a white Christmas.
A "Nutcracker" that reflects its Berkeley setting.
Flight delays mean just a glimpse of this "Nutcracker," but even a glimpse is worthwhile.
In Harlem, the "15th Annual Black Nutcracker" makes surprising connections between African dance and ballet.
Ballet companies across America have plenty of "Nutcracker" merchandise, but are they missing a few tricks?
Life and art intertwine in Nashville, where it was snowing inside and outside this "Nutcracker."
This version of "The Nutcracker" takes place on Beale Street and mixes Booker T and Tchaikovsky.
In Memphis, sightseeing and a Mother Ginger with a surprising number of children.
A "Rocky Horror" version of "The Nutcracker."
