Bacon opens up to PEOPLE about the 40th anniversary of 'Footloose' as its writer, Dean Pitchford, is inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame Months after the hit 1984 musical film celebrated its ...

Theater is, of course, a product of its times, which means that a show you’ve seen before can suddenly seem to offer different messages when viewed through the lens of a different production in a ...

From the iconic shoe-filled opening to Kevin Bacon angrily doing gymnastics in a warehouse, “Footloose” is an all-timer of a movie that explores youthful enthusiasm vs. repressive morality – and boy, ...

Bacon and his brother performed a set at the California festival Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty; Paramount/Kobal/Shutterstock Cut loose! Kevin Bacon and his brother Michael ...

Kevin Bacon has revealed he’s banned Footloose from being played in his presence after being asked to dance ‘like a monkey’ ...

You’ve got the iconic title track by Kenny Loggins, “Let’s Hear It for the Boy” by Deniece Williams, and the Bonnie Tyler song “Holding out for a Hero.” Then there’s “Almost Paradise” by Mike Reno and ...

Living in New Orleans, it is almost inconceivable that any town could get away with outlawing music and dancing. Yet, that is the premise of "Footloose, " the 1990s stage adaptation of the ...

Kevin Bacon has dozens of memorable roles, but it’s his 1984 film “Footloose” that he’s asked about most frequently — or asked to dance to. Ahead of his new Prime Video series, “The Bondsman,” Bacon ...

Kevin Bacon’s “worst nightmare” involves one of his most iconic movie roles. While reflecting on his career during a panel at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas, the 66-year-old ...