NUTCRACKER ROUGE Celebrates its 16th Anniversary This Holiday Season
by Carissa Chesanek - Dec 9, 2025
Everyone’s favorite holiday classic, Nutcracker Rouge by Company XIV, hits the stage again this season at Bushwick’s Théâtre XIV. The show, now running for 16 years, returns to tantalize its guests with a 12-week limited engagement in the unassuming warehouse-style building, where everyone on the naughty list is rewarded with an impressive mix of acrobatics, dance, and theatrical performances.
Review: Nutcracker Rouge Entices Bushwick For Another Glamorous Holiday Season
by Carissa Chesanek - Dec 10, 2024
There’s the Nutcracker and then there is the Nutcracker Rouge. While the traditional ballet is more formal and family-friendly, Nutcracker Rouge is anything but, making for an alluring adult-only spectacle of incredible talent mixed with naughty decadence and a bit of raunchy humor, too. Nutcracker Rouge is not only a ballet but part circus and burlesque, reconstructing everything that we once thought of the original Christmas performance and creating something new and sparkly.
Photos: AIN'T DONE BAD Opens At Pershing Square Signature Center
by A.A. Cristi - Jul 16, 2024
Pershing Square Signature Center is presenting AIN’T DONE BAD, a a hybrid theatrical dance experience conceived, directed, and choreographed by Jakob Karr (“So You Think You Can Dance”) and featuring the music of country star Orville Peck. See photos from the production! See photos from opening night!
Photos: Luann de Lesseps Visits COMPANY XIV's QUEEN OF HEARTS
by Stephi Wild - Jun 27, 2024
Former Real Housewife and now cabaret star Luann de Lesseps made the scene in Bushwick to catch COMPANY XIV’S hit burlesque show QUEEN OF HEARTS. After the show, she congratulated the cast members. Check out the photos here!
Words From the Wings: Christine Flores of ILLINOISE
by Stephi Wild - May 20, 2024
As part of our Words From the Wings series, we're chatting with Christine Flores, who is currently appearing in Illinoise. Christine told us all about her backstage routines, favorite moments, and more!