The 40th anniversary of the English-language version of the musical, which opened in London in 1985, is on October 8.

Critics initially panned it, but public love for the musical with songs like “One Day More” and “On My Own” has kept it going ...

Once dismissed as ‘Victor Hugo on the garbage dump,’ Les Mis is now the world’s longest-running musical. As it marks 40 years ...

"Not many people have had the opportunity to compare my English version, page for page, with the original ... the actual lyrics now being sung nightly in New York and London, there is very little ...

Letters from Kretzmer’s archive, donated to Cambridge University Library, reveal how he felt he was not given enough credit ...

Letters from the late Herbert Kretzmer, recently donated to Cambridge University Library, reveal that the writer, who ...

Word-of-mouth carries Les Mis from the Barbican, to the West End and beyond. This anniversary, therefore, was a pure ...

There are moments in Les Misérables, the movie musical adaptation from The King's Speech director Tom Hooper, that are so rumbling and rousing and righteous that certain people might be immediately ...

When it premiered at The Barbican in 1985, Les Miserables was famously panned - with one critic labelling it "lurid Victorian ...

From negative reviews to the show’s Christian themes, here are some things you may not have known about “Les Mis.” ...