Leah Hocking was in the original Broadway cast of “Billy Elliot” as Billy’s late mother. At the same time, she was understudy to the female lead, Mrs. Wilkinson, and received a Tony nomination as Best ...

The story of boy with a passion for ballet, which has proudly claimed a spot amongst the UK's most iconic - and profitable - films, initially struggled to be made ...

I spent a semester studying in London in the winter of 1985, and one of the first concerts I attended was a benefit at Brixton Academy for the striking coal miners, featuring Aztec Camera and ...

Britain's Got Talent might have found the next Billy Elliot in 14-year-old Jack Higgins. The dancer - who appears on tonight's show with a routine set to the song 'Say Something' - attends a ...

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 ...

Please be warmed up and ready to dance when the call begins. Performers will be called in groups. All performers: please bring ballet flats and tap shoes. Some performers may be asked to cold read ...

The man who made Billy Elliot dance, both on screen and on stage, took dance lessons as a kid in the same kind of tumbledown rec center that entices Billy to take his first step into the world of ...

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 ...