Come and meet those dancing feet… no, not the tapping toes of the classic musical 42nd Street, but a different street entirely in Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe’s world premiere tap dance revue ...

The Tap Dance Kid (1983) now strutting fitfully at Ensemble Theatre, has a basic problem at its core in that the title character is not the main focus of the story. What derails Tap Dance is that ...

This nostalgic, Tony Award–winning 1983 musical is all about family dynamics. Young Willi wants nothing more than to follow in the footsteps of her mother and Uncle Dipsey as a dancer. Her father, ...

Jay Gatsby lives in West Egg. Daisy Buchanan lives in East Egg. And the new musical about them that opened Thursday at the Broadway Theatre lays a big egg. It’s debatable whether one of American ...

Diane Davisson knew she had to tap more than her feet to preserve the legacy of tap dancing. The producer, choreographer and dancer tapped into the movement’s history, as well as on the shoulders of ...

Musical theater dance is the type of dancing—usually ballet, jazz, hip-hop, or tap—used in choreographed sequences for musical theater. Once upon a time, in the Golden Age of Broadway, there were two ...

When he announced the last show of the Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe’s 2024-25 season during a donor event a year ago, founder and Artistic Director Nate Jacobs didn’t let on that he didn’t really ...

For their Christmas offerings, most dance companies wade into the fertile ground of "The Nutcracker" or forget about the whole season. For the past six years, Anacrusis Modern Tap Dance has skipped ...

Performances in N.Y.C. The Uptown Rhythm Festival will mix styles, including tap, swing and flamenco, that are flourishing despite problems of rehearsal and performance space. Max Pollak rehearsing at ...

Tap dance is as much a part of Americana as blue jeans, barbecue or the Statue of Liberty. While not as popular today as it was during its “Golden Age” from 1920 to 1940, the American art form has ...