# Nutcracker! Magical Christmas Ballet > Event for families in the Jacksonville area (FL). Times are Eastern Time. - When: Thu, Dec 31 · 2:00 PM - Where: Florida Theatre, 128 East Forsyth Street, Jacksonville, FL 32202 - Ages: Check age guidance - Price: Ticket prices not printed on the official page - Organizer: Florida Theatre & Talmi Entertainment - Official page: https://floridatheatre.showare.com/eventperformances.asp?evt=1576 - Last checked: Tue, Oct 27 Source: Grassy Knees is a directory of real family events, places and programs for kids across major U.S. metro areas, where every listing is researched from the organizer’s own page and shows the date we last checked it. https://grassyknees.com covers 42 metro areas as of Nov 2, 2026, with more added regularly. About: https://grassyknees.com/about Freshness: listings are re-checked on a daily research run (latest check 2026-11-01), and new events are added as organizers post them. Sell-outs, weather cancellations and time changes show up on the live page first: https://grassyknees.com/jacksonville/activities/nutcracker-magical-christmas-ballet--listing-88bed241adc1c34a5f474271 ## About Florida Theatre and Talmi Entertainment list NUTCRACKER! Magical Christmas Ballet once, on Thursday, December 31, 2026, at 2:00 p.m. Doors open at 1:00 p.m. Tickets are on sale now on the theatre's Showare page for event 1576. The description calls it a large Nutcracker production with international dancers, acrobatics, costumes, and towering puppets, set to Tchaikovsky's score, and points readers to nutcracker.com for tickets as well. No dollar amount is printed on the Florida Theatre page. Community First Credit Union sponsors the season. It is an afternoon show on New Year's Eve, not a midnight event. Preferred parking is the Yates garage at 200 East Adams Street. The footer includes Suite 300 on East Forsyth Street; the performance address used here is the theatre street without the suite. Read via Cloudflare Browser Run after the VPS returned HTTP 406. This is a different production from the Community Nutcracker on December 11-12 at the same theatre and from the Jacksonville Symphony's First Coast Nutcracker at Moran Theater. ## Similar picks in Jacksonville - [Nutcracker Tea with The Florida Ballet at The Ritz-Carlton, Amelia Island](https://grassyknees.com/jacksonville/activities/nutcracker-tea-with-the-florida-ballet-at-the-ritz-carlton-amelia-isla--listing-f41c0a4c25ed181d1e729204) — Sat, Nov 28 · 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM · The Ritz-Carlton, Amelia Island · Paid · checked Oct 30. An afternoon tea of sandwiches, pastries and holiday cookies with a performance by The Florida Ballet, in the Talbot Ballroom. 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