Colt Prattes News

Works selected across the new Indie Episodic, Shorts and Special Events sections of the 2018 Sundance Film Festival were announced today, underlining Sundance Institute's commitment to showcasing bold independent storytelling, regardless of form, format or length.

Sundance Now, AMC Networks' premium video streaming service announced today that its new original relationship dramedy, This Close will premiere on Valentine's Day Wednesday, February 14. The news comes on the heels of the series' acceptance into the 2018 Sundance Film Festival as part of the Fest's new Indie Episodic showcase. The upcoming scripted series, the streaming service's first ever straight-to-series order, is based on a series of shorts that was featured at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival's Short Form Episodic Showcase.

Works selected across the new Indie Episodic, Shorts and Special Events sections of the 2018 Sundance Film Festival were announced today, underlining Sundance Institute's commitment to showcasing bold independent storytelling, regardless of form, format or length.

Marlee Matlin, Cheryl Hines ('Curb Your Enthusiasm'), Zach Gilford ('Kingdom,' 'Friday Night Lights') and Colt Prattes (Dirty Dancing) have been cast in Sundance Now's upcoming scripted original, THIS CLOSE, set to premiere on the Subscription VOD service in early 2018.

Cody Williams has led a successful career on Broadway since 2010. He began his professional career in MEMPHIS on Broadway and has continued until now to CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY in 2017, where audiences from all over have been witness to Williams' incredible high flying dance power. But Cody Williams is a man of many trades, most recently becoming Producer of NY1's OnStage with Frank DiLella. I recently interviewed Cody to find out how he first fell in love with theatre - and where he sees this all going.

ABC's reboot of the 1980's classic film DIRTY DANCING did not deliver a strong rating's performance Wednesday night, coming well below the Season Finale of CBS's SURVIVOR.

Good morning, BroadwayWorld! Today's big news: The new musical THE BOY WHO DANCED ON AIR bows tonight at Abingdon!

On last night's Season Finale of DANCING WITH THE STARS, Season 10 champion Nicole Scherzinger returned to the ballroom to perform 'Do You Love Me' with her DIRTY DANCING co-star Colt Prattes. Check it out below!

On last night's 2-1/2 hour season finale of ABC's DANCING WITH THE STARS, NFL star Rashad Jennings and his professional dance partner Emma Slater were crowned Season 24 champions!

Abigail Breslin, Debra Messing, Bruce Greenwood, Nicole Scherzinger, Sarah Hyland, Tony Roberts, Katey Sagal and Billy Dee Williams, along with rising stars Colt Prattes and J. Quinton Johnson, headline the stellar cast in a new adaptation of the global pop-cultural phenomenon, DIRTY DANCING, premiering WEDNESDAY, MAY 24

Award-winning dancer, choreographer, and director, Andy Blankenbuehler, has worked on some of the most groundbreaking musicals of all time, including Hamilton and In the Heights, and has used movement to connect to the complex and beautiful truth of the human condition. His current project, choreographing the long-anticipated ABC revival of one of the most classic movies of all-time, Dirty Dancing, has allowed Blankenbuehler to keep flexing his artistic muscles, and enter into a world of increased depth and discovery with its cherished characters. Since the original first debuted, Blankenbuehler was moved by its powerful themes of strength, liberation, love, and allowing the art of dance to serve as a powerful voice.

On last nights LATE NIGHT, guest Debra Messing talked about starring in ABC's Dirty Dancing reboot and how the original compelled her to act.

Below, Johnson discusses ABC's highly anticipated DIRTY DANCING reboot, premiering Wednesday, May 24 (8:00-11:00 p.m. EDT) on ABC.

Abigail Breslin, Debra Messing, Bruce Greenwood, Nicole Scherzinger, Sarah Hyland, Tony Roberts, Katey Sagal and Billy Dee Williams, along with rising stars Colt Prattes and J. Quinton Johnson, headline the stellar cast in a new adaptation of the global pop-cultural phenomenon, DIRTY DANCING, premiering WEDNESDAY, MAY 24

Abigail Breslin, Debra Messing, Bruce Greenwood, Nicole Scherzinger, Sarah Hyland, Tony Roberts, Katey Sagal and Billy Dee Williams, along with rising stars Colt Prattes and J. Quinton Johnson, headline the stellar cast in a new adaptation of the global pop-cultural phenomenon, DIRTY DANCING, premiering WEDNESDAY, MAY 24

Abigail Breslin, Debra Messing, Bruce Greenwood, Nicole Scherzinger, Sarah Hyland, Tony Roberts, Katey Sagal and Billy Dee Williams, along with rising stars Colt Prattes and J. Quinton Johnson, headline the stellar cast in a new adaptation of the global pop-cultural phenomenon, DIRTY DANCING, premiering WEDNESDAY, MAY 24 (8:00-11:00 p.m. EDT), on ABC. 

Abigail Breslin, Debra Messing, Bruce Greenwood, Nicole Scherzinger, Sarah Hyland, Tony Roberts, Katey Sagal and Billy Dee Williams, along with rising stars Colt Prattes and J. Quinton Johnson, headline the stellar cast in a new adaptation of the global pop-cultural phenomenon, DIRTY DANCING

DIRTY DANCING, the global pop-cultural phenomenon, becomes a three-hour filmed musical event on ABC. The network will premiere the film on Wednesday, May 24, 8:00-11:00 p.m. Check out photos of the cast having the time of their lives below!