A spokesperson for the department said it was providing £36.5m across the music and dance CAT schemes this academic year. "We ...

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 ...

The depiction of British working-class life in films, beginning in the late-1950s, emerged full-bloom in the 1990s. It has taken a particular resonance in the aftermath of the Thatcher regime. Even ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...