Amid the news of yesterday's fire at the Notre Dame Cathedral, I found myself among the large group of people who felt profoundly affected by the tragedy, despite not identifying with any religion. Re ...

In classic literature very few works have had as many liberties taken in adaptation as Victor Hugo’s “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.” Since its first recognizable film, the 1923 silent version starring ...

Both ghastly and captivating, an odd blend of the misshapen and the magnetic — yes, Disney’s 1996 feature “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” was one unusual creature. That was the cartoon movie with ...

Victor Hugo’s novel about the deformed bell ringer Quasimodo, who longs for the beautiful Esmeralda, found new life in the 1999 musical, “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” by Alan Menken (music) and ...

Starting Friday, students will be transforming the Amarillo Little Theatre Academy mainstage into a cathedral and bell tower from the late 1400s to tell the story of Quasimodo, Esmeralda and Claude ...

What Victor Hugo did for the Royal Shakespeare Company, he now does for Synetic Theater. That is to say, as the 19th-century French novelist’s “Les Misérables” proved a defining vehicle for that ...

Rebekah Barajas, playing the role of Esmeralda, rehearses a scene of “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” put on Agape Theater Company. The show will hit the stage on July 21-23 and 28-30 at Lutheran High ...

Near the start of the musical “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” Quasimodo — the young outcast who has been cloistered away inside a grand Paris cathedral — sings of his yearning to join the wider world.

University Ballet of Chicago (UBallet), the University’s student-run ballet company, recently took to Logan Theater for two performances of La Esmeralda, Jules Perrot and Cesare Pugni’s 19th-century ...