Tag: Les Miserables

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    Oliver Picken

    On Edge: Anticipating Wicked and the Future of Stage Musicals On Screen

    Oliver Picken shares his hopes and concerns for the upcoming film adaptation of Wicked.

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    Alice Fortt

    Closer To The Edge: Our Musicals Wishlist

    To pick up those theatre blues some of our writers pick out their favourite musicals, because, who doesn’t love a good musical?

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    Emily Dennis

    “I love you”: Act IV, Scene 1: An Ode to Romantic Declarations in Theatre.

    From our Romance mag, Emily Dennis looks at how theatre displays the trials of love.

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    Vicky Greer

    Reality on Display: History in Theatre

    As an increasing number of Award winning musicals such as Hamilton have their origins in history, Vicky Greer takes a look at what makes people fall in love with these shows.

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    Bruno Russell

    Review: Collabro at Mayflower Theatre, Southampton

    Bruno Russell calls Collabro’s latest gig at the Mayflower ‘impressive’ and ‘thoroughly enriching’, and a continuation of their success since their Britain’s Got Talent win.

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    Rehana Nurmahi

    Stage Spotlight: Samantha Barks

    Samantha Barks is the latest actress to be put in The Edge’s Stage Spotlight.

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    Rehana Nurmahi

    30 years of Southampton’s Mayflower Theatre

    On the Mayflower Theatre’s 30th birthday, Features Editor Rehana reflects on some of her fondest memories there.

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    Rehana Nurmahi

    Stage Spotlight: Aaron Tveit

    Features Editor Rehana puts Aaron Tveit in our brand new ‘Stage Spotlight’, examining his career in theatre.

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    Rehana Nurmahi

    BBC to adapt Les Misérables into a six-part drama

    BBC set to adapt Victor Hugo’s iconic novel Les Miserables into a six-part TV drama.

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    Rehana Nurmahi

    The joys of ever-changing musical theatre casts

    With Hamilton saying goodbye to three original cast members, Rehana looks at the perks of changing casts

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    Matt Clarson

    What’s the Matt-er: We’ll Always Have Paris

    In his second column post, Matt considers the recent terror attacks in Paris and how culture/art can help inform our reactions to it

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    Caitriona Hanly

    ‘Do you hear the people sing?’ What The Edge love about Les Mis on the West End

    30 years ago today, the musical masterpiece Les Miserables opened on London’s West End. Adapted from the gargantuan novel of the same name by Victor Hugo, the opera tells the interweaving stories of an ensemble cast in Revolutionary France and deals with themes as heavy as political corruption, poverty, morality, and death, all through the medium of […]

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    Rehana Nurmahi

    Stage production of Les Misérables is set to celebrate 30th anniversary with a special show

    Les Misérables is set to celebrates 30 years on the West End stage, with a special show featuring faces old and new,