“To love another person is to see the face of God.” Victor Hugo There’s no question, says actor Nick Cartell, that Jean Valjean is the juiciest role he’s ever played. If you were fortunate enough to ...

Courtesy photo. / Performing in Hollidaysburg’s “Les Miserables: School Edition” are (from left to right) back row: Olivia Miknis, Emily Jones, Gideon Karn and Sophia Waibel; front row: Arwen Hartman, ...

THE BASICS: LES MISERABLES, the multiple Tony-award winning musical by Boublil and Schönberg, in the national Broadway Tour presented by Shea’s Buffalo, starring Nick Cartell as Jean Valjean, Preston ...

As a theater critic, I see somewhere around 125 plays and musicals a year. Some of the weaker and most-dated shows I’m happy to see only once. But there are some I never tire of. Top on my list is ...

Two years ago this month, the “Les Misérables” national tour visited the San Diego Civic Theatre for a sold-out, two-week run. Now it’s back for a six-day run that ends Sunday, and for those who saw ...

Spanning seventeen years, the plot centers around Jean Valjean, an idealistic French peasant who seeks personal redemption after serving a nineteen-year prison sentence for stealing a loaf of bread to ...

When a musical is so widely known that it’s staged at the high school level, it’s typically past its prime. (Compare “Wicked”—its film version coming out a month from now—with “Oklahoma,” and only one ...

Les Misérables has extended its run at the West End’s Sondheim Theatre into 2025 and has confirmed its Christmas 2024 schedule. Currently starring in the London production are Peter Jöback as Jean ...