Dirty Dancing (musical)

Tough guys do dance and sing. With two of Hollywood’s biggest manly men now starring in the same film, there’s a good chance that some of their male fans secretly wish they were seeing Wolverine versus Maximus. Instead, Hugh Jackman and...

Ballet is all over TV this season, from ABC Family's "Bunheads" created by Amy Sherman-Palladino, to the CW's reality show “Breaking Pointe,” a peek behind the scenes of Salt Lake City’s celebrated Ballet West and Nickelodeon's "Dance...

When you dance in a Twyla Tharp show, you've got to do more than pirouettes or pretty ballet steps. Tharp's choreography is unique. It's gutsy, quirky and Olympics-competition-ready with its bag full of flips, backbends and cartwheels galore. So it's a...

The national touring production of "Come Fly Away," Twyla Tharp's sensual ballet/musical set to the songs of Frank Sinatra, breezes through Baltimore this week. One of the featured dancers in the show will look very much at home on the stage of the Modell...

He choreographed the original “Dirty Dancing” back in 1987.  Kenny Ortega's “Newsies,” which he directed and choreographed, became a benchmark Disney flop, leading to years in the wilderness.Lots of episodic TV, the occasional...

Jennifer Grey, who starred in "Dirty Dancing" with Patrick Swayze, approves Kenny Ortega's "Dirty Dancing" remake. "I'm so excited about this news and I think there's nobody better to do this than my beloved Kenny Ortega," Jennifer Grey said....

I could not be more happy for this week's finals in Dancing With the Stars, especially after approving nearly 500 comments on last week's results show post. Sleep? What's that?But enough about me. Tonight, Kyle Massey, Jennifer Grey and, yes,......

Patrick Swayze, the hunky actor who danced his way into viewers' hearts with "Dirty Dancing" and then broke them with "Ghost," died Monday after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 57. "Patrick Swayze passed away peacefully today with family at his...

Here are reviews of offerings at the Orlando International Fringe Festival from Sentinel theater critic Matthew J. Palm, staff writers Tod Caviness, Dewayne Bevil, Kelly Fitzpatrick, Jim Abbott, Martha Phifer, Alsy Acevedo and Fringe correspondent Mary...

Here are reviews of offerings at the Orlando International Fringe Festival from Sentinel theater critic Matthew J. Palm, staff writers Tod Caviness, Dewayne Bevil, Kelly Fitzpatrick, Jim Abbott, Martha Phifer, Alsy Acevedo and Fringe correspondent Mary...

Patrick Swayze -- the actor who helped make dirty dancing a worldwide phenomenon -- died today in Los Angeles after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 57. With his lithe body and athletic virility, Swayze brought a dancer's sensibility......