Weeks ahead of “George Balanchine’s ‘The Nutcracker,’ ” the Sugar Plum Fairy is getting ready to entertain. Her wand at hand, she has magic to command. At her palace in the Land of the Sweets the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Unity Phelan dishes on playing the Sugar Plum Fairy in "George Balanchine's The Nutcracker," and shares how the famous New York ...

Crooked Tree Arts Center School of Ballet veteran dancers Olivia Pearsall and Lillian Ellsworth will help bring the beloved “The Nutcracker” performance to the local stage this month. The holiday ...

For dancers, “The Nutcracker” presents an almost militaristic hierarchy of roles: Many will start as mice and party girls. A select few will ascend to Sugar Plum Fairy. “I was a baby mouse, and I just ...

Attending a performance of “The Nutcracker” is a holiday highlight for people of all ages around the world, in no small part due to the Sugar Plum Fairy. While she’s only on stage about twenty minutes ...

The Sugar Plum Fairy is often a person’s first glimpse of a live ballerina. A harbinger of holidays, she ushers new audiences into the ballet’s realm of theater and fantasy in countless productions of ...

Niskayuna High School junior Samantha Percy, 16, will dance the role of the Sugar Plum Fairy in "The Nutcracker" Tea event put on by the Northeast Ballet Company Nov. 19 at the Saratoga Performing ...