Performer: Joseph Walsh

Seeing Frankenstein in its 2025 incarnation feels worthy and redemptive. It’s as vivid and cinematic as ballet gets.

This irresistible Nutcracker is a reliable delight in an increasingly unreliable world.

Swan Lake is the last program of the San Francisco Ballet’s season and of the 37-year tenure of retiring artistic director Helgi Tomasson.

The ballet culminates with fouettés, bravura leaps from the oversized ensemble and a rousing finish with all 44 dancers onstage. It was an exuberant end to an intelligent, satisfying production, both of thought and movement.

Wheeldon’s Cinderella is the kind of production that so enthralls, you immediately want to make plans to see it again.

An enjoyable evening of thematic dance but without any insights into the future of ballet.