Laura Molzahn

Given the chance, most people would choose order over chaos for their own lives. But somehow a bit of chaos doesn't hurt when it comes to art: the theater script...

What's it like to be brown or black in the city of Chicago? My stepson, who's African-American, was once handcuffed in our yard for trying to go into his own...

With a massive undertaking like the Chicago Dancing Festival, which features multiple programs of multiple companies, planning is both essential — and impossible to perfect. Still, festival producers Lar Lubovitch...

"In the beginning, I think they wanted to do something to help the cause," says choreographer Randy Duncan, speaking about the performers who first gathered in his now-annual Dance for...

Something about tap dance feels thrillingly existential. As one intensely unplanned moment follows another, the synergy of dance and music seems beyond control, like a wind that blows strong or...

Imagine assembling an ocean liner in your basement, then carting it out onto a body of water, hoping it will float. That must be something like the experience Thodos Dance...

"I tried to make sure Coltrane's poem was the foundation of what we were doing," says tap dancer Jumaane Taylor. "It was a turning point in his life, and that...

Biting off more than anyone could comfortably chew, Chicago Dance Crash tackles good and evil in the new "Evil & Good," a rough collection of nine vignettes that actually achieves...

Drag queens, a marching band, a stunt bicyclist, a cheerleading squad and an emcee in stiletto platforms with his own posse of two: "We Will Tap You! A Celebration of...