Kick off the holiday season with a Manhattan take on the classic story of Clara and her magical adventures in "Nutcracker in the Lower."

Scandinavian art comes to America, Knuffle Bunny appears at Skirball Center, one-act comedies at Brooks Atkinson Theatre, and more.

Learn about New York in the 1790s, Spring for Music at Carnegie Hall, a new take on Peter Pan, the Belarus Free Theatre, and more.

American paintings and sculpture at the New Museum, Hungarian symphonies at Lincoln Center, Catherine Deneuve films at BAM, and more.

With seemingly the entire dance world obsessed with the tribulations of training for "Black Swan," John Kelly went about his Zen-like way, channelling Egon Schiele in "Pass the Blutwurst, Bitte," at La Mama.

It’s been a few years since LeeSaar, a small company begun by Lee Sher and Saar Harari of Israel that settled here, first made a splash in New York; they received a Guggenheim Fellowship this year, among several laurels. Their work hasn’t lost much of the uniqueness and power that might have been due to [...]