Throughout the winter season, historic venues across Central New York present holiday show offerings to keep up with the Christmas festivities. The most popular event being Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker; it wasn’t until the 1960s that performances of this ballet really took off as an annual Christmas tradition. This year, there will be many popular holiday events preformed in places such as Utica, Cortland, and Endicott this December.
EPAC Nutcracker with the FUSE Dance Center of Binghamton
Established in 1998, The Endicott Performing Arts Center provides a high quality performing arts venue to local, regional, and touring artists. Thus, enabling their students to present, develop, and improve their artistic efforts. This season, EPAC presents four performances of “The Nutcracker” December 9th, 10th, and 11th. With the amazing dancers from The FUSE Dance Center of Binghamton, teaming up with the EPAC Repertory Company, ‘The Nutcracker’ has become a holiday tradition that you don’t want to miss.
Four performances are held on Friday December 9 at 7pm, Saturday, December 10 at 2pm and 7pm, and Sunday, December 11 at 2pm.
Tickets are $20 Adults / $18 Seniors and Children.
For more information, reserve seating, and to purchase tickets, click the link here.
Upcoming Concerts and Events at The Stanley Theatre
This holiday season, there will be many upcoming shows you won’t want to miss at The Stanley Theatre. The most popular being The Nutcracker which the Board of Directors and Artistic Director, Melissa Larish, have endeavored to make the production unique, through major investments in sets, costumes, choreography, lighting and guest artists. Other shows like Mannheim Steamroller Christmas, Home Alone, and A Charlie Brown Christmas will all be held throughout December.
The Nutcracker
December 2nd | 7:00 p.m.
December 3rd | 7:00 p.m.
December 4th | 2:00 p.m.
Mannheim Steamroller Christmas
December 7th | 7:30 p.m.
Home Alone (1990)
December 8th | 6:30 p.m.
A Charlie Brown Christmas
December 20th | 7:00 p.m.
Cortland Rep Downtown Holiday Events
Cortland Repertory Theatre Downtown, located at 24 Port Watson Street in Cortland, offers an exciting and festive December of holiday shows and events. For the first time since 2019, CRT is offering a weekend of photos with Santa, on Saturday, December 3rd from 10:00am-12:00pm and 2:00pm-4:00pm, and on Sunday, December 4th from 1:00pm–3:00pm. Along with this, they will also be offering a Holiday Broadway Brunch on December 10th, a performance by The Rave-On’s December 11th, Third Thursday Trivia on December 15th, and more to come.
Holiday Broadway Brunch
December 10th at 11:00am
The Rave-Ons
December 10th at 7:30pm and December 11th at 2:00pm
Third Thursday Trivia
December 15 at 7:00pm
The Story of Ebenezer Scrooge by The Traveling Lantern Children’s Theatre Company
December 17th at 11:00am
Dancin’ Thru the Decades New Year’s Eve Community Dance
December 31st at 9:00pm
For more information or to purchase tickets to any of these events, please visit the link here.
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