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 ...

If you can complete that sentence, then you’re part of the coveted demographic that “Flashdance the Musical” is aiming for. It’s been 30 years since the hit movie about a blue-collar girl named Alex ...

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.

The former Editor of Ask.com, Kate (she/they) was nominated for an LA Press Club National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Award in 2022. Their fiction, reviews, and articles have been published by ...

Launcher of a thousand off-the-shoulder sweatshirts, popularizer of leg warmers: it’s “Flashdance” and the film turns 40 this year, just like some of us are or have too. It’s hard to believe a beloved ...

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: ...

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 ...