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Los Angeles Ballet has revealed its 2025/2026 season, marking a major milestone with the Company’s 20th anniversary. Learn the full season lineup here!

The Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center is holding open auditions for the wacky holiday musical NUNCRACKERS – The Nunsense Christmas Musical. Learn how to audition here!

United Dance Company is celebrating Down Syndrome Awareness Month with the start of rehearsals for The Extraordinary Nutcracker, returning to Boston’s Calderwood Pavilion December 6–7, 2025.

Internationally recognized ballet dancer Justin Valentine will appear as a guest artist with Palmetto Ballet Theatre in Simone Cuttino’s A Night Under The New Moon. The production will be performed October 10–11, 2025, at Lexington 2 Performing Arts Center in West Columbia, SC.

Northern Ballet’s The Nutcracker will return to Leeds Grand Theatre for the holidays, running December 18, 2025 – January 4, 2026. Featuring David Nixon’s choreography and Tchaikovsky’s famous score performed live.

Since Giselle opened in Paris in 1841, its poignant themes of betrayal and mercy have been captivating audiences worldwide. With music by Adolphe Adam and choreography based on Petipa’s late-19th-century revivals, Giselle has become the epitome of Romantic-era ballet.

Convergence Ballet has announced its 2025–2026 season under new Artistic Director Ian Parsons. Highlights include The Nutcracker at Herberger Theater Center (December 12–14, 2025) and a Spring Gala at Dorrance Theater (April 26, 2026) featuring Parsons’ new choreography.

New Ballet, the South Bay’s premier ballet company, will present its Halloween Gala and Dance Party on Saturday, October 25 at the Hammer Theatre Center in San Jose.

As an ongoing commitment to make ballet and the performing arts accessible to everyone in the community, the Carolina Ballet has partnered with the Martin Marietta Center for the Performing Arts to host five free children's classes.

Little Bulb have announced the cast for their Early Years' Christmas production Antarctica, presented by Bristol Old Vic, in a revival of the magical polar adventure for the bravest young explorers.

The University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) is celebrating its 60th anniversary this month, commemorating the moment in 1965 when it opened its doors as the nation's first public arts conservatory.

Popejoy Hall has launched the 2025–2026 Schooltime Series, the largest performing arts education program in New Mexico, with a performance by Artrageous. Since 1996, the Schooltime Series has introduced more than one million PreK–12 students across the state to the transformative power of live performance.

Georgia native Cartreze Tucker returns home as Goldie Wilson and Marvin Berry in the national tour of BACK TO THE FUTURE: THE MUSICAL, which is opening production of the 2025 – 2026 Regions Bank Broadway in Atlanta season and plays at The Fox Theatre September 23 - 27.

The Mary B. Galvin Artistic Director Ashley Wheater has added three dancers to the Joffrey roster for the 2025-26 season. Learn more about the new dancers here!

Beatrice Rana will embark on a North American recital tour from October 29, 2025 to November 12, 2025, with appearances at Bourgie Hall at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Carnegie Hall, and more.

Ballet Rhode Island will hold its annual auditions for The Nutcracker Children's Cast. The auditions are open to young dancers ages 7-18 across New England. Learn more!

Make your holidays merry and bright with Julia Adams’ The Nutcracker Suite, performing at the Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

New York City Children’s Theater has revealed its 29th season with a five-borough tour “Theater for the Very Young” production, FOREST OF FEELINGS, and more. See the full season here!

Pacific Symphony has announced its 2025–26 Family Musical Mornings series, presented by Farmers & Merchants Bank. Led by new Assistant Conductor Pola Benke, the four-concert series invites families to experience live orchestral music through beloved stories, holiday traditions, and interactive performances at the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall in Costa Mesa.

Bristol Old Vic has announced the full cast for its swashbuckling Christmas production Treasure Island: A New Musical Adventure, a new adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic Bristol-inspired tale of hidden treasure and daring deeds.

The Brooklyn Chamber Orchestra has announced its 2025-2026 season offering a journey that drifts through shadow and light, reverence and revelry, and tradition and innovation.

This holiday season, The Joffrey Ballet celebrates the 10th anniversary of two-time Tony Award®-winning choreographer Christopher Wheeldon’s The Nutcracker. Learn more about when to see it how to get tickets!

The Smith Center for the Performing Arts is closing out 2025 with a spectacular array of Broadway musicals, jazz masters, legendary headliners, and family favorites, offering world-class entertainment for every taste. Tickets are on sale now.

​​​​​​​Nashville Ballet has announced the promotion of Katie Vasilopoulos to Director of Operations. Vasilopoulos will oversee the financial, organizational and operational health of the company. 

There is more news from the Kennedy Center. The D.C. cultural institution just announced the appointment of Stephen Nakagawa as its new Director of Dance Programming.