Les Miserables (movie)

Hundreds of high school students will descend on the State Theatre in Easton on Thursday for a celebration of their theatrical excellence. The 11th annual Freddy Awards ceremony, a live Tony Awards-style event, is the capstone of a year of hard work....

John Caird, who's directing the L.A. Opera production of "Tosca" that opens Saturday, played crucial roles in launching two of the biggest stage blockbusters of modern times. The fact that the British director remains somewhat below the radar, at...

Broadway fans are in for a treat, thanks to Richland Area School District students in grades seven through 12. On May 19 beginning at 7 p.m., these students will perform “Way Off Broadway,” a musical tribute to some of Broadway's greatest...

Attendance at touring Broadway shows nationwide dropped for the second straight season, according to a newly released report from the Broadway League. The report said that 12.7 million people attended a touring show in the 2011-12 season, down from 13.1...

A Parkland High School graduate will perform with a Penn State a cappella singing group Wednesday morning on NBC's "Today." Ben Mays, a 2011 Parkland grad, and the 11 other members of the all-male Statesmen are expected to perform 'N Sync's "It's Gonna...

In 2008, New York's Lincoln Center revived a Broadway warhorse: "South Pacific." At the beginning of the overture in the Vivian Beaumont Theater, the lip of Michael Yeargan's setting, which had the outline of a tropical island, began to move backward,...

When Oak Park and River Forest High School senior John Clay III goes to New York in late June as the male winner of the Illinois High School Musical Theater Award, he will have at least one friendly face to cheer him on. His girlfriend, Taylor Marie...

Freedom High School's production of "Les Miserables" and Parkland's "Phantom of the Opera" tied for the most 2013 Freddy Award nominations, with 15 each, it was announced today. Nazareth High School's "Anything Goes" had the second-most nominations with...

ACTORS NEEDED FOR COMEDY FILM Allentown native and award-winning filmmaker Zeke Zelker is preparing to tour 15 U.S. cities to hold auditions for his film-in-progress "Billboard: An Uncommon Contest for Common People," a comedy about a billboard-sitting...

"The Phantom of the Opera," the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical that has entertained multitudes of Chicagoans over the last two decades, is returning to Chicago. Although an endeavor of the original producer, Cameron Mackintosh, this is not the original Hal...

NEW YORK — Miss Agatha Trunchbull, headmistress of Crunchem Hall school, hates pigtails. They're good only to serve as handles by which she can toss a rebellious child into the air — a feat this one-time Olympic hammer-throwing champion...

Actress Jeanne Bennett of West Palm Beach stars in the four women ensemble "Waist Watchers: The Musical" by Alan Jacobson now playing at Plaza Theatre in Manalapan through May 19. Teaming with actresses Shelley Keelor, Missy McArdle and Katie Thomas, the...