At Puppetworks in Brooklyn, *The Steadfast Tin Soldier* is staged as a traditional marionette play for children and families, using handcrafted puppets to tell Hans Christian Andersen’s 1838 story of a one-legged toy soldier devoted to a paper ballerina. The performance is paired with *Nutcracker Sweets*, placing two European fairy-tale lineages side by side in a New York puppet-theater setting. There is no widely documented NYC premiere history for this specific staging. Its restraint is the point: the tale’s stoicism reads as a quiet lesson in persistence and consequence.
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