CHICAGO — In the new and endearing movie “Billy Elliot,” an 11-year-old boy from northeastern England decides, against all odds, that he wants to be a ballet dancer. His widowed father and older ...

“Billy Elliot” certainly belongs on any list of the greatest British musicals of all time, eclipsed by “Les Miserables” for sure, but right up there with “Matilda,” “Mamma Mia!” and “Blood Brothers.” ...

It's not often that a musical comes along that is as ambitious as it is emotional — and then succeeds on both counts. But 'Billy Elliot,' which opened Thursday at Broadway's Imperial Theatre, is an ...

Set in Northern England during the 1984-1985 coal miners’ strike, this uplifting film focuses on the character of an 11-year-old boy who exchanges his boxing gloves for ballet slippers. Despite his ...

Paramount Theatre begins the year with a revival of “Billy Elliot: The Musical,” the Tony Award-winning tuner adapted from the 2000 coming-of-age film about a young boy from a mining family in ...

Follow your dreams — against all odds, no matter what the cost, don’t let anyone stand in your way — such is the message of “Billy Elliot.” The musical “Billy Elliot” comes to the Paramount Theatre in ...

It's been 25 years since Billy Elliot first danced its way into films fans' hearts, going on to be a hit musical ...

Original Billy Elliot Liam Mower will return to the hit musical for one night only on 28 September 2014, this time as older Billy. Mower, who since leaving the show in 2006 has trained at Rambert and ...

Paramount Theatre’s production of “Billy Elliot The Musical” is a spectacle in every sense of the word: From set designer Michelle Lilly’s magnificently forbidding mine shaft, whose murky interior ...