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Boston Ballet's The Nutcracker
Boston, MA · Arts & Culture
- When
- November 27 – December 31, 2026
- Where
- Citizens Opera House · Boston · MA
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
Boston Ballet performs Mikko Nissinen's staging of The Nutcracker at the Citizens Opera House every winter, with dozens of performances running from late November through New Year's Eve. The production has been a Boston holiday tradition for decades and includes a sensory friendly matinee each season. It remains one of the city's best attended annual arts events.
The history within reach
- Edgar Allan Poe0.1 mi
Born in Boston to travelling actors, orphaned at two, and thereafter a man of Richmond, Baltimore and Philadelphia who resented Boston for the rest of his life, he called its writers Frogpondians.
The Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association of New England has run the Chinatown August Moon Festival since the 1970s, filling Phillips Square and the surrounding streets with lion dancing, Chinese opera, and food vendors.
A lion dance parade and cultural village through Boston's Chinatown marking the Lunar New Year, organized by Chinatown Main Street with the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association of New England.
- Boston Common0.2 mi
Bought from the settler who had got there first and set aside for grazing and militia drill, the oldest public park in the United States.
Streetcars on Tremont Street had got so thick you could cross the road on their roofs, so the city put them underground, the first subway on the continent, four years before New York's.