The Nutcracker at Wethersfield

  • Saturday, Dec 20

Showtimes updated on Tuesday evenings
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OCOpen Captioned
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35mm
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The Nutcracker at Wethersfield

Preview screening and Q&A w/ director Anne Sundberg & lead choreographer Troy Schumacher

Official Selection at Doc NYC 2025

The Nutcracker at Wethersfield follows choreographer Troy Schumacher in the dark winter of 2020 as he dreams of an idea to save Christmas and put his fellow New York City Ballet dancers back to work.

Set on the grounds of a magical Hudson Valley estate, Troy and his team of fellow artists face almost insurmountable challenges to create an unforgettable and immersive live experience between dancers and audience, who arrive as guests at the ballet’s most famous party scene to witness The Nutcracker like never before. We follow the dancers and their process, exploring their hopes and dreams as they push themselves to bring this vision to reality. This is a film that celebrates the joy and value of art in our communities, and the magic of the holidays through the classic experience of The Nutcracker.

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Preview screening and Q&A with director Anne Sundberg and lead choreographer Troy Schumacher Preview screening and Q&A with director Anne Sundberg and lead choreographer Troy Schumacher

Preview screening and Q&A with director Anne Sundberg and lead choreographer Troy Schumacher

Saturday, Dec. 20 2025, 2:30

  • Anne Sundberg is known for creating critically acclaimed films and television series. Her work has been shortlisted for the Oscars, won a Columbia-Dupont Silver Baton, and earned 13 Emmy and two Peabody nominations as well as numerous festival accolades. Here to Climb, her latest project with filmmaking partner Ricki Stern at Break Thru Films, launched on HBO in 2024. Films include: My So-Called High School Rank (HBO); Reversing Roe (Netflix); Marathon: The Patriots Day Bombing (HBO); In My Father’s House (Showtime); Knuckleball!; Burma Soldier (HBO); The Bengali Detective (HBO); Joan Rivers—A Piece of Work; The Devil Came on Horseback; and The Trials of Darryl Hunt. Additional films include the Oscar winner One Survivor Remembers (HBO) and the narrative feature Tully. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, the DGA, and the Television Academy, and lives in New York City with her husband and daughter.
  • Troy Schumacher is an American choreographer, dancer, and director living in New York, NY. His athletic aesthetic draws upon the artists he collaborates with to produce fresh, unexpected results. He is a soloist dancer with New York City Ballet and the founder and Artistic Director of BalletCollective. He has been dubbed a “visionary artist” by T Magazine and is “one of his generation’s most acclaimed choreographers” (PBS). His work has been featured on The New York Times’ Annual “Best Of” list, and on the “Highbrow/Brilliant” quadrant of New York Magazine's Approval Matrix multiple times. During the Covid-19 pandemic, Schumacher created, directed, and produced the first live world premiere ballets in the US: the one-act Natural History and the full-length, immersive Nutcracker at Wethersfield, the subject of the feature documentary of the same name.

Tickets: $15 (members), $20 (nonmembers)

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