The setting of Stephen Daldry's uplifting comedy Billy Elliot, which is about a working-class boy who wants to be a ballet dancer, is a beleaguered coal-mining town in the north of England circa ...

NEW YORK -- Billy's gotta dance. And you gotta see him do it. The musical version of the much-loved 2000 movie "Billy Elliot" has arrived at the Imperial Theatre on Broadway, and when the rubber ...

Oct. 19, 2000 - In "Billy Elliot," ballet serves as the leap of faith needed for a sensitive boy to escape the poverty and defeatism of his English coal-mining town. And he takes to that leap with ...

Aaron Ostroff, right, as Billy Elliot, appears with LeGrand Lawrence, who plays Billy’s father, and Ahnya Chang, who plays his ballet teacher, Mrs. Wilkinson, in DHT’s production of “Billy ...

Julie Kent, former ballet dancer turned Artistic Director of The Washington Ballet, reviews iconic ballet scenes from films including 'Black Swan,' 'Mao's Last Dancer,' 'The Game Plan,' 'The ...

The West End has a sizable homegrown hit in "Billy Elliot -- The Musical." Far more aggressive than the 2000 movie, at once angrier and considerably more shameless, too, the stage show expands on ...

Opening the 2018-2019 season with “Billy Elliot the Musical” was truly a leap of faith for Civic Theatre artistic director William Sanders.

Miss Wilkinson (Janet Dickinson) and the ballet girls in a scene from "Billy Elliot The Musical" at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts on Wednesday night.

Billy Elliot is a big, overstuffed musical, unsubtle and sometimes melodramatic, but it makes up for any shortcomings with its glorious tribute to the power of dance.

For its international debut in Sydney ahead of a Broadway bow in fall 2008, London hit "Billy Elliot the Musical" has undergone a slight but significant makeover, with softer Thatcher themes ...