New York City Ballet Announces Date for The Nutcracker

New York City Ballet’s (NYCB) annual season of George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker will run November 27-January 3, 2027, at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. The January 3 show will be a sensory friendly performance.

NYCB’s production of Balanchine’s ballet premiered on February 2, 1954, and is now seen by more than 100,000 people annually.

Set to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s score, George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker features choreography by Balanchine, performed by the company’s entire roster of more than 150 dancers and musicians, as well as more than 120 children, in two alternating casts, from the School of American Ballet, the official school of New York City Ballet.

The creative team also includes Rouben Ter-Arutunian (scenery), Karinska (costumes), and Mark Stanley (lighting), after the original design by Ronald Bates.