Maurice Hines Jr., who went from working in a tap-dancing act with brother Gregory Hines to becoming a tap trailblazer on Broadway, has died at age 80.

Maurice Hines, a legend of tap dance for seven decades, has died. He gained fame with his brother Gregory as the Hines Brothers, delighting audiences on stage, television and film. Jeffrey Brown ...

Tap dancer, Savion Glover, rose to fame with his role in the original Broadway production. Now he's revamping the musical and a New Jersey kid is taking on the role Glover made famous in the 1980s.

That “The Tap Dance Kid” is never sure which of the members of the Sheridan family it’s about — the focus seems to change every 10 minutes — is just one of the oddities afflicting this ...

For Samuels Smith, it goes a step further. It's about honoring tap dancing's roots, and his own. "Tap was kind of a language that was developed for people to establish their own freedom," he said.

Working on "Diary of a Tap Dancer" at the A.R.T. is a full circle moment for Johnson, who graduated from Harvard’s Graduate School of Education.