If you open the Google homepage on Friday, you'll be greeted with a familiar face. You might not recognize Victor Hugo at first, but you almost definitely know his works—Hugo wrote The Hunchback of ...

The last time Philadelphia audiences saw playwrights Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg’s Tony Award-winning musical “Les Misérables” on a local stage, we lived in calmer socio-political times.

Now touring North America, this updated version of the beloved musical has been crafted by producer Cameron MacIntosh. For ...

Ladj Ly's gritty, Oscar-nominated "Les Miserables" (B+; rated R; in theaters now in Los Angeles, expanding Friday to 17 cities, including Atlanta, Chicago, New York and Washington; adds additional ...

If you thought “crimes of necessity,” such as stealing bread to feed your starving family, were only punished centuries ago, you clearly need to think again. These days, the new America we live in ...

A star-studded cast led by Dominic West, David Oyelowo, Olivia Colman and Lily Collins helps Andrew Davies restore some of the nuance to Victor Hugo's epic classic 'Les Miserables.' By Daniel Fienberg ...

I’M SURE WE ALL RECALL this stirring “reality television” moment from a 2009 episode of “Britain’s Got Talent.” With a single song, Susan Boyle, a 47 year-old Scottish nobody, became an ...

The Oscar-winning director and his stars discuss the revolutionary aspects of their film, made as the world faced massive upheaval. By Jordan Zakarin Leading up to the various, continent-hopping ...

This “Les Misérables” is not based on the Victor Hugo novel, but on a real incident of police brutality in France. It’s that nation’s submission for the 2020 international feature Oscar. “I come from ...

"The message is simple: We Venezuelans never give up," says a star of Les Misérables opening in Caracas. Victor Hugo's classic resonates with residents in one of the world's deadliest cities. There's ...