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 ...

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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There is so much exciting singing and dancing talent onstage in the West End debut of "Flashdance: The Musical" that it makes you wonder how all the other musicals in town are making out. By Ray ...

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 ...