Diablo Ballet Co-Artistic Director Nikolai Kabaniaev is a Russian- trained choreographer with a flair for theatricality and a helpless attraction to big ideas. In recent years, he's made an ...

Think of Petrushka as a Russian Pinocchio, but without a sweet old puppet maker and a happy Disney ending. In a nutshell, Stravinksy’s ballet, Petrushka was about a puppet who came to life, but who ...

BalletX and the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society opened the world premiere of Amy Hall Garner’s highly colorful, theatrical Petrushka Thursday night at the Kimmel Center’s Perelman Theater.

Volunteering is something that Brecksville’s Bob Petrushka has done most of his life. The 73-year-old remembers doing volunteer work with the Boy Scouts and The Community Chest — a predecessor to the ...

“Always leave them wanting more.” P.T. Barnum may not have actually said this, but it’s a useful showbiz maxim nonetheless, one the Boston Symphony Orchestra and music director Andris Nelsons seem to ...

Igor Stravinsky was all of 28 years old in 1910 when he landed his first big hit, the ballet score to The Firebird, composed for the Ballets Russes, the influential dance company based in Paris.