Nahat's `Nutcracker' heartwarming as ever
By Rita Felciano
Special to the Mercury News
``The Nutcracker'' celebrates families, and a ballet company is a family. In ``Nutcracker'' everyone participates; the tiny tots -- deliciously fuzzy little mice -- perform alongside professionals.

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercuryn ... 255075.htm

In San Jose, dressing the part is as important as having the right moves
Janice Berman, Special to The Chronicle

Saturday, December 16, 2006

Out at the check stand in the lobby sat a lonely fedora with a ticket in its hatband. For all we know, it could have been the only hat belonging to anybody in the audience at the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts on Thursday night, where, to be sure, some people were dressed as if they might be fixing to ride in the two Bentleys parked out front by the evening's opening-night gala sponsor, but others wore dirty jeans.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f ... 004&sc=493

Greetings
I am moving this over to our Holiday Performance section....