This season, two impressive opera-house stagings are playing in this city and could be characterized as opposite sides of the “Nutcracker” coin. George Balanchine’s 1954 version for New York ...

says the New York City Ballet’s Choreographer George Balanchine ... (His longest previous effort: The Nutcracker, which as a children’s matinee attraction has become the most lucrative ...

Philadelphia Ballet in “George Balanchine’s ‘The Nutcracker.’” Through Dec. 29 at the Academy of Music. 240 S. Broad St., kimmelculturalcampus.org . ©2024 The Philadelphia Inquirer.