The Stage (Free subscription) | yesterday
Layton Williams, the first black performer to play Billy Elliot on stage, has been unveiled as one of three 13-year-old boys who will take on the role of the young Michael Jackson in forthcoming West End show Thriller Live.
NewYorkology: A New York Travel Gui (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
NewYorkology contributor Alexandra Farkas had the chance to see “Billy Elliot” shortly after its November 13 opening night at the Imperial Theater. Farkas, who earlier this year directed the New York premiere of John Fleming’s “ The Two Lives of Napoleon Beazley ” at the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, is back as NewYorkology’s theater critic after a hiatus to give birth to a beautiful...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
The arrival of "Billy Elliot" on Broadway, coinciding with the reminder that the next White House chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, was trained as a ballet dancer, has become part of the latest wave of "real men can do ballet" talk....
IndieLondon (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
FROM December 1, 2008, Brad Wilson, Joanna Riding and Joe Caffrey will join the cast of Billy Elliot the Musical which is currently booking at the Victoria Palace Theatre until October 24, 2009. Set in the North East of England, Billy Elliot the Musical is a funny, heart-warming and feel-good celebration of one young boy’s dreams and is an adaptation of one of the most popular...
NYtheatre.com (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
Billy Elliot The Musical feels like a big Broadway hit—on the order, perhaps, of Jersey Boys and Mamma Mia! String together words and phrases like "feel-good musical," "crowd-pleaser," and "heart-warming" and you know most of what you need to about this cannily crafted show.
New York Newsday (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
Think it's tough finding one teenage boy with the stamina and skill to carry a Broadway dance musical on his shoulders? Try to find three. A behind-the-scenes documentary about the years-long search for Broadway's trio of alternating "Billy Elliots" will debut Monday on WNET/13.
Trendfo.com Hottest Trends (Free subscription) | yesterday
(playbill.com) - December 01, 2008A documentary about the nationwide search for the three young actors who currently share the lead role in Broadway's Billy Elliot the Musical makes its world premiere Dec. 1. (nytimes.com) - November 29, 2008Photos of the three actors who play the title role in the Broadway musical ?Billy Elliot.? (huffingtonpost.com) - November 21, 2008The...
Popvine (Free subscription) | yesterday
ANOTHER show is closing!Grease the musical just announced they will play their last show on January 4th.It’s bleak on the Great Whit Way!At least Billy Elliot is doing well!
PerezHilton.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
ANOTHER show is closing! Grease the musical just announced they will play their last show on January 4th. It's bleak on the Great Whit Way! At least Billy Elliot is doing well!
[FashionRatty] Lattest Articles (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
ANOTHER show is closing Grease the musical just announced they will play their last show on January 4th It's bleak on the Great Whit Way At least Billy Elliot is doing...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
The Broadway triumph of “Billy Elliot” is in many ways a triumph of paradox.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
Thirteen-year-old Trent Kowalik, a champion Irish step dancer, stars on Broadway in “Billy Elliot.”
NY Daily News (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
Between Rahm Emanuel's pirouetting past and Broadway's hit show "Billy Elliot," it's the season of men in tights. And the New York City Ballet's Charles Askegard is no exception.
