Emerald City Theatre Company, Chicago’s largest professional theater devoted entirely to families, is teaming up with First Book this holiday season to help bring the magic of reading to children throughout Chicago! We are thrilled to announce that they have added two performances of their holiday production, A Nutcracker Christmas, now playing through December 31, 2006 at the Apollo Theatre.

For these two added performances — Saturday, December 16 at 4:00 pm and Saturday, December 23 at 4:00 pm — Emerald City will donate 10% of proceeds to First Book to provide new books to programs serving disadvantaged children throughout Chicago. What a wonderful way to celebrate the season!

For more information or to purchase your tickets to these special performances, please visit EmeraldCityTheatre.com.

You can also visit Emerald City Theatre’s Web site to listen to music from the show!