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Celebrate the holiday season with Holiday Spirits produced by FRIGID New York at UNDER St. Marks. Enjoy a two-night presentation of short play readings on themes of winter, the holidays, and the horrors therein.

Convergence Ballet and Ballet Theatre of Phoenix once again bring the magic of the season to life with their enchanting production of THE NUTCRACKER, presented at the Herberger Theater Center.

North Shore Civic Ballet will open its annual holiday auction on November 16, with bidding available through December 5. Proceeds will support scholarships, choreography, equipment, and costuming for emerging dancers across the North Shore region.

Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater has extended its limited engagement of Step Afrika!’s Magical Musical Holiday Step Show. Exclusive to this year’s audiences, Step Afrika! is debuting a new dance piece: “Candy Cane Lane.”

Rattlestick Theater has revealed details for the third annual Ratcracker, Rattlestick’s utterly delightful, utterly ridiculous holiday party and fundraiser.

It's Christmastime in the city and with all of the holiday hustle and bustle comes a whole bunch of yuletide cheer at the theater! Check out a complete list of where you can find holiday entertainment in New York City in 2025!

Pasadena Dance Theatre will debut a refreshed staging of The Nutcracker featuring choreography by Jessamyn Vedro and direction by Ashleigh Doede. Performances run December 20–21 at the San Gabriel Mission Playhouse.

Shreveport Metropolitan Ballet will welcome Annia Hidalgo and Cristian Laverde König as guest artists for its 2025 production of The Nutcracker. The performances will take place December 13–14 at the Riverview Theatre.

Arrow Street Arts will host the Big Easy Holiday Bash, featuring Delfeayo Marsalis and Uptown Jazz Orchestra, for three performances this December. The program will include holiday standards, New Orleans R&B, and Duke Ellington’s Nutcracker Suite.

Los Angeles Ballet has announced its 20th anniversary 2025–2026 season, marking a major milestone for the city’s longest-operating professional classical ballet company.

New York City Ballet will present its 2025–26 season of George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker at the David H. Koch Theater, beginning November 28. The production will feature the full NYCB company, students from the School of American Ballet, and Balanchine’s classic choreography set to Tchaikovsky’s score.

The Joyce Theater Foundation is once again turning up the holiday heat as Caleb Teicher brings their beloved swing spectacular A Very SW!NG OUT Holiday back to The Joyce.

The Capital Region's holiday season will feature two beloved traditions returning to Proctors Collaborative stages this December: the Schenectady-Saratoga Symphony Orchestra's “Poinsettia Pops” and The Nutcracker.

ARTECHOUSE NYC will present the ARTECHOUSE Holiday Special, a limited three-week engagement running December 15, 2025, through January 4, 2026, at Chelsea Market.

The National Ballet of Canada will celebrate the 30th anniversary of James Kudelka’s acclaimed production of The Nutcracker, running December 5–31, 2025, at Toronto’s Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts.

Brooklyn Ballet will present its annual production of The Brooklyn Nutcracker at The Theater at City Tech, conceived and choreographed by Artistic Director Lynn Parkerson.

​The Grainger Academy of The Joffrey Ballet will present five world premieres in the culmination of Joffrey's national call for emerging artists to submit applications for the Winning Works Choreographic Competition.

New York City Children’s Theater will continue its 29th season with  MY FIRST NUTCRACKER, a holiday classic reimagined for ages 3 to 8 to provide family entertainment in a  50-minute holiday show.

American Repertory Ballet invites audiences to celebrate the season with The Nutcracker—a timeless story filled with magic, beauty, and holiday spirit. Learn more here!

New Ballet and Symphony San Jose will return for the 2025 holiday production of The San Jose Nutcracker, choreographed by New Ballet Founder and Director, Dalia Rawson.

 New York Theatre Ballet’s (NYTB) annual presentation of Keith Michael’s The Nutcracker will light up the stage at Florence Gould Theater for seven shows next month.

Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe – once again – invites the community to celebrate the holiday season with “Black Nativity – Reimagined,” an inspirational gospel musical originally penned by poet/playwright Langston Hughes.

Central Indiana Dance Ensemble will welcome Mark-David Bloodgood as their Cavalier for the 26th Annual production of The Nutcracker. A beloved classic, The Nutcracker is a magical holiday event.

BalletMet’s The Nutcracker will return to the historic Ohio Theatre from Dec. 11 to 28. The production will have 22 performances, including two My First Nutcracker iterations, and feature more than 180 Academy students and trainees.

The longtime Executive Director of the Academy of Music Theatre in Northampton will be retiring in June 2026. This announcement was made recently by Debra J'Anthony, who has been Executive Director of the historic arts venue since 2008.