In Carina Chocano’s whip-smart new book You Play The Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks, & Other Mixed Messages, she analyzes the “girls” of pop culture across the decades, from ...

FLASHDANCE - THE MUSICAL Comes to Boston, 3/11-23 by BWW News Desk - February 12, 2014 Celebrating its 30th Anniversary, the pop culture phenomenon of FLASHDANCE is now live on stage. With ...

As if being a welder in a Pittsburgh steel mill by day and an acrobatic, exotic dancer by night weren’t enough, in “Flashdance: The Musical” the character of Alex Owens also must belt out pop songs.

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In the gleam of sweat on bare shoulders, in the sudden snap of a strobe-lit pirouette, in the promise of escape built from steel and longing — there lies Adrian Lyne. To talk about Lyne is to talk ...

In the 1983 movie Flashdance, Jennifer Beals played Alex Owens, the Pittsburgh steelworker by day/exotic dancer by night whose dream of attending an elite dance conservatory improbably comes true. In ...

Only a complete overhaul with new creatives could turn this into a Stateside hit. Recognizing that the original’s 95 minutes of close-up, softcore body worship dressed as female empowerment might not ...