The classic ballet served as a mostly successful showpiece for the company’s talented cast of dancers.

Maleficent is known as a powerful fairy, and though she shows her power in the third act of Sleeping Beauty, it doesn’t really match her reputation as a powerful, evil, dark fairy. Her survival ...

Sylvain Sonnet/Corbis Today’s Google Doodle honoree, Charles Perrault, is credited with helping invent the modern fairy tale ... his most famous works, Sleeping Beauty—a castle that’s ...

Popular fairy tales have one defining factor. The stepmothers are almost always evil. Admittedly, the Brothers Grimm, who ...

With a Tchaikovsky score, big party dances and a cast with many children, Milwaukee Ballet's "Sleeping Beauty" could appeal ...

The live-action film explores the origins of the evil fairy Maleficent and what led her to curse Princess Aurora in Disney's animated classic Sleeping Beauty.

Before Walt Disney, there was Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Before Disneyland, there was the Russian Tsar’s Imperial Palace in St ...