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.

When I hear the words Les Misérables, my mind often casts to the musical first and the film adaptation second. What I seem to almost always forget is that this story started life as a novel, and a ...

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 ...

Les Misérables — the world’s longest-running musical and a true modern classic — comes alive on the Tuacahn Amphitheatre ...

Home school theater group Valley Troubadours will present "Light in the Darkness," an adaptation of Les Miserables Nov. 6-8.

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The Paris streets are full of joy during the opening moments of Ladj Ly’s electrifying “Les Misérables,” which despite the deceptive title is not yet another adaptation of Victor Hugo’s 1862 novel, ...

"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 ...

Director Tom Shankland didn’t want his “Les Miserables” to be anything like the stage-musical version of Victor Hugo’s sweeping historical novel, nor like the 2012 Tom Hooper feature-film musical. For ...

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 ...