While The Lion King and Mufasa is often thought of as Disney's darkest death, there is another death that is far more ...

Featuring a sweeping, musical score and an epic story of love, acceptance, prejudice and what it means to be a hero, City of ...

Featuring a sweeping, musical score and an epic story of love, acceptance, prejudice and what it means to be a hero, City of Fairfax Theatre Co. presents “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.” It takes the ...

Esmeralda, the fiery dancer who is strong and compassionate, captures the attention of many, among them Quasimodo, who is shunned for his disability and was abandoned as a child at the door of the ...

Quasimodo in Disney's film is sweet, but treated as child-like. Gone is the monster of Charles Laughton's popular 1939 incarnation, and in its place is a man-child who knows nothing about the world.

And playing Quasimodo, the much-maligned Notre Dame Cathedral bell-ringer, is the fresh-faced young actor Joshua Castille. Like the hunchbacked figure in Hugo’s story, Castille is deaf.

While Quasimodo is but one of many interconnecting characters in the original Hugo novel, he dominates the narrative of this lavish Universal production. In the story, Jehan (Brandon Hurst), the evil ...

It's up to Quasimodo, an unlikely hero, to save the day. Saturday, Oct. 7-Sunday, Nov. 5, Hanna: "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Written by William Shakespeare. Directed by Joseph Hanreddy.

Quasimodo has competition for Esmeralda's heart, a man named Phoebus De Martin whose complex character is believably portrayed by Nicholas Kuell. Phoebus becomes a very likeable person, to the ...

Maybe Quasimodo's devotion to the obviously evil Frollo was the reason that Esmeralda felt the need to leave the safety of Notre Dame instantly after Phoebus had her use the "sanctuary" card.

The character of Esmeralda is remade as a Disney-style Jasmine, Ariel or Belle – strong-willed, independent, rebellious – instead of trusting the character’s ample compassion and sensuality.