Jersey City Nutcracker Tickets On Sale Now!

Jersey City's Largest Annual Professional Performing Arts Event - Tchaikovsky's Classic Ballet, retold with Jersey City Flavor!




Nimbus Theater:
165 Newark Ave , Jersey City NJ (Enter on Barrow St.)

Dates/Times:
Friday, Dec 13, 7pm
Saturday, Dec 14, 1pm & 5pm
Sunday, Dec 15, 1pm & 5pm
Friday, Dec 20, 7pm
(* 6pm Stage Door Series pre-performance discussion event:
Growing Up Jersey City: w/ Lewis Spears & Samuel Pott)
Saturday, December 21, 1pm & 5pm
Sunday, December 22, 1pm

Tickets: $25-$40 (Group discounts available)
Available HERE

For the 10th consecutive year, NimbusPRESENTS the local holiday favorite: Jersey City Nutcracker. Set to Tchaikovsky?s renowned orchestral score, Jersey City Nutcracker tells the story of two children?s city adventure, following them through fantasy, adversity, and celebration, with lessons about friendship and community along the way. Performances are preceded by a Winter Carnival with games, concessions, and craft vendors.
Jersey City Nutcracker features Nimbus Dance?s professional company dancers with talented local youth from The School of Nimbus as well as from the French American Academy of Jersey City, Frank R. Conwell PS #3, Rafael de J. Cordero PS #37, Waterfront Montessori, Bergen-Lafayette Montessori School, and Snyder High School. Lead youth performers include Sibel Gitonga (Explore 200 MS) and Michael Fuks (Newark?s Arts High), Janelle Acosta, Brogan Donston and Leah Murphy (High Tech HS), Ysabelle Baculod (McNair HS), and Sophie Shapiro (Scotch Plains-Fanwood HS). Additionally, local celebrities make hilarious guest cameo appearances.

On Friday, December 20th at 6pm, NimbusPRESENTS: Stage Door Series: Growing Up Jersey City with Lewis Spears & Samuel Pott. In this pre-performance discussion, made possible by the New Jersey State Council on the Humanities, Jersey City educator-activist and author Lewis Spears, director of teen mentor/leadership program: Kismet of Kings, and Nimbus Artistic Director, Samuel Pott, along with Jersey City teen representatives, discuss the experience of coming of age in Jersey City. What is the state of youth culture in Jersey City? How are teens in Jersey City activating to bolster and develop their voices as artists, as leaders and as citizens of the 21st century? Join us for this invigorating, free, pre-performance discussion.

Goldman Sachs supports the 10th season of Nimbus Dance Works? Jersey City Nutcracker as Lead Sponsor. Goldman Sachs? support helps cover the costs of dance artists, lighting, and production, costumes/sets, administration, and marketing. Additionally, one half of Goldman Sachs' sponsorship makes possible the paarticipation of students from Jersey City's Henry Snyder High School as performers in the production.

Says Anthony Cammarata Jr., Managing Director, Corporate Services and Real Estate at Goldman Sachs: ?For years Nimbus? Jersey City Nutcracker has brought Jersey City youth, families, and residents together around the holidays to celebrate our community. Goldman Sachs is proud to sponsor this wonderful production and applauds the youth performers and Nimbus dancers and staff for their continued contribution to Jersey City.?

In addition to 9 public weekend performances, Nimbus will present 12 additional school matinee performances, providing the opportunity for 1500 Jersey City youth to attend the performances. For information on groups sales or to reserve seats for school matinee performances, please email programs@nimbusdanceworks.org or call (201) 377-0718.

School Matinee Performances:
Tuesday, December 10, 10:15am & 1:15pm
Wednesday, December 11, 10:15am & 1:15pm
Thursday, December 12, 10:15am & 1:15pm
Tuesday, December 17, 10:15am & 1:15pm
Wednesday, December 18, 10:15am & 1:15pm
Thursday, December 19, 10:15am & 1:15pm



Goldman Sachs is the Lead Sponsor of Jersey City Nutcracker 2019