Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The challenge of casting the Encores! revival of “The Tap Dance Kid” exposes some of the complications of tap, show business and Black history. By ...

Alde Lewis and Zamira Williams hit the boards in The Tap Dance Kid. Credit: Photo by Carlos Figueroa @JPEGSbyCarlos Alde Lewis recalls dancing on Broadway with Tommy Tune as his director and ...

Move over, Fred Astaire. There's a new group of tap dancers in town. But they might not look as you expect. The sound of synchronized rhythms flow up the stairs from the lower floor of the Lincoln ...

The rattle of tap shoes fills the small black box theatre, as dancers step along to the swing jazz accompaniment. The tempo for this song, played by a pianist and a drummer hitting a high hat, is fast ...

What happens when a child’s dream clashes with a parent’s vision for the future? “The Tap Dance Kid,” on stage at Houston’s Ensemble Theatre, brings that question to life through electrifying ...

To ward off the cold of the evening, Shakee Dixon pulled up the hood of his new, bright-red sweatshirt, purchased with his earnings from Bourbon Street. “You like ...

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 ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The Encores! series returns with a 1983 musical that, despite its pleasures, wasn’t quite right then and isn’t quite right now. By Jesse Green When ...

South Korea’s fascinating “Swing Kids” is such a dizzying, anachronistic mash-up of genres and cultures -- tap-dancing musical, violent war movie, social-justice drama, and slapstick comedy with music ...

Joining the cast are Tracee Beazer (Carole), DeWitt Fleming Jr. (Daddy Bates), Joshua Henry (William), Trevor Jackson (Uncle Dipsey), Shahadi Wright Joseph (Emma), Chance K. Smith (Winslow), Adrienne ...