Tom Hooper came to fame by adapting the past: first via a pair of HBO films (with Helen Mirren as Elizabeth I and Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney in the spellbinding John Adams), then with a royal ...
As the stage lights dim and the overture begins, a gust of wind lifts you onto the 19th-century barricades of France. In a world full of uncertainty, the musical “Les Misérables” reminds us of the ...
In June 1832, a group of students, immigrants and insurrectionists took to the streets of Paris, demanding change. The fervor of the French Revolution had withered amid vast economic inequality, food ...