Jennifer Beals went from wide-eyed acting newcomer to movie star and 1980s fashion icon in "Flashdance" 40 years ago. Audiences were swept up in Beals' performance as Pittsburgh steel mill welder Alex ...

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 are few things better than reliving your childhood. We are both children of the ’80s and were more than delighted to take a trip back to that awesome, cool, totally rad decade with some help ...

This review has been corrected. See below for details. “Flashdance the Musical” has its way over “Flashdance” the movie in at least one critical regard: The show’s plucky heroine — as you’ll recall: ...

This tour marks the world premiere of a new stage adaptation of the hit 1983 film, revised since its London stage premiere in 2010. It plays Heinz Hall. The Jan. 1-6 run is the dawn of a new national ...

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 ...