A Spooky Season of Phantoms, a Bat Boy and More

Theater in New York has felt spookier than usual this season: Beetlejuice has risen from the afterlife; a bat boy has just ...
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Paul Stanley Says Being 'Teased' over His Facial Deformity Helped Him Connect to Playing Phantom of the Opera Character

The KISS frontman has "microtia" Ilana Kaplan is a Staff Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has previously appeared in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair ...

Why Gerard Butlers Phantom of the Opera Was So Divisive

Musicals experienced a massive resurgence in popularity throughout the 2000s, with sensational silver screen productions of ...
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Why Hollywood’s first iconic Phantom of the Opera film is still puzzling us, 100 years on

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s extravagant 1986 musical version of The Phantom of the Opera will celebrate its 40th anniversary at the Sydney Opera House in 2026. But an even more enduring anniversary takes ...