Working Title and the show's creatives have given their blessing to a new stage version of the beloved musical.

The latest show from "Billy Elliot" playwright Lee Hall will go on after all. A dispute over words spoken by a gay character had threatened to derail his new project — a community opera ...

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 ...

“Billy Elliot,” the tale of a British coal miner’s son who dreams of becoming a dancer, has the potential of winning a record number of 2009 Tony Awards, honoring the best of a star-driven ...

When British theater director Stephen Daldry made his feature film directing debut with "Billy Elliot" in 2000, he scored an out-of-nowhere hit that captured the hearts of audiences and critics ...

Set in a small coal-mining town in Northern England during the mid 1980s, “Billy Elliot” focuses on the precarious development of its preadolescent hero’s gift for dancing. Forced into ...

"Billy Elliot the Musical" from Pixie Dust Productions stays true to the 2008 Broadway show, and that's primarily positive.

Many parents here would probably be thrilled if their sons wanted to take ballet — in contrast to Billy’s mining-town parents in Thatcher-era England.

Billy Elliot is an 11-year-old boy whose family, bereft of its recently deceased mother, is on the brink of disaster as Billy’s father and older brother hang on to body and soul through a ...

“Billy Elliot the Musical” moves — and MOVES. When one of the astonishing young dance machines who rotate in the role of Billy is pirouetting or tapping, executing kickboxing steps or ...

Billy Elliot is a big, overstuffed musical, unsubtle and sometimes melodramatic, but it makes up for any shortcomings with its glorious tribute to the power of dance.