IN 1999, Universal Pictures released "October Sky" to mildly popular if not widespread critical acclaim. Maybe you remember the heartwarming story about a coal miner's son who, against the ...

Place is essential to this world. A layer of unease marks the undertone of “Billy Elliot” and its relationship with its setting. It is 1984 in the fictional town of Everington in Durham County ...

Set in a down-and-out mining town not unlike the steel-mill town in "The Full Monty," "Billy Elliot" mixes humor and pathos in the story of a boy's attempt to pursue his passion -- ballet -- in a ...

Ten-year-old Billy Elliot (Jamie Bell) is a lad living a bleak existence in Northern England. His mother is dead; his Dad (Gary Lewis) is a miner out on strike who's worried about how to keep the ...

Bennett Dametz, 12, is taking center stage in the musical "Billy Elliot." The show is put on by the Music Theatre Kansas City in Shawnee, Kansas, and opens Friday night at B&B Theatres. It will ...