Graham Lustig's The Nutcracker coming to Patriots Theater at the War Memorial in Trenton.

Dec. 7, 2009 - PRLog -- TRENTON, N.J. – American Repertory Ballet returns to the Patriots Theater at the War Memorial for their annual performance of Graham Lustig’s The Nutcracker. A New Jersey tradition for more than 40 years, Graham Lustig’s retelling of The Nutcracker offers a fun new look on the classic story. Whether it is your first ballet experience, or one of many, Graham Lustig’s The Nutcracker will sweep you off your feet. Come enjoy the magic of the holiday season with ARB and students of ARB’s Princeton Ballet School.

Tickets are $24.00, $27.00, $30.00 and available at The Patriots Theater Box Office at (609) 984-8400, (800) 955-5566 or online at thewarmemorial.com or tickets.com and a 10% Military Discount (Box office only, must show ID).

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Seating 1,807 person in a setting of Italian Renaissance Revival splendor, the grand auditorium of the War Memorial, known as Patriots Theater has been a stage for world-class artists and entertainers, including American Ballet Theater, Marian Anderson, Louis Armstrong, Leonard Bernstein, the Cleveland Orchestra, Bill Cosby, Duke Ellington, Patti LaBelle, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Bob Hope, Vladimir Horowitz, B.B. King, the Kirov Ballet, Wynton Marsalis, Yehudi Menuhin, Paderewski, Peter, Paul & Mary, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Frank Sinatra, Bruce Springsteen, Sarah Vaughan, and Dave Brubeck.

Part of the State of New Jersey's Capitol Complex. The War Memorial is located a short walk from the New Jersey State House (the nation's second oldest capitol building), the New Jersey State Library, the New Jersey State Museum, the Old Barracks Museum, and a short distance from Mercer County Waterfront Park, home of the TrentonThunder baseball and other attractions.