Lauren Warnecke

The thing I miss the most about Same Planet Different World is the name. Faced with the immense challenge of continuing to run a conventional repertory dance company, director Joanna...

Remember that scene in the movie "Footloose?" The one where Kevin Bacon drives into a warehouse in his VW bug, pulls a cassette tape out of the glove box, drinks...

Ah, the contemporary program. Like most big ballet companies, the Joffrey Ballet reserves the post-"Nutcracker" wintertime for a mixed-rep production (with some exceptions, like last February's "Anna Karenina"). Many ballet...

On Wednesday, Kimberly Bartosik's daughter will fly on an airplane by herself for the first time. Dahlia Bartosik-Murray, an 8th grader at the New Voices School of Academic & Creative...

There's a version of Chicago that we vehemently defend to our out-of-town friends and relatives. We're more than deep dish pizza, Michigan Avenue and the mob. We're Midwestern and metropolitan,...

Looking ahead, the Auditorium and Harris theaters are about to be filled with dance. But there's also plenty to see in small, more intimate spaces. Here are the events I'm...