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Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Sep 15, 2020
We're Gonna Die offers a poignant portrait of mortality

Theatre Y turns Young Jean Lee's play into an elliptical but moving film project.
- By Irene Hsiao
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Theatre Y, Young Jean Lee, We're Gonna Die, Héctor Álvarez, Cambrians, Melissa Lorraine, Emily Bragg, Kyle Gregory Price, Andràs Visky

Arts & Culture, Feature Apr 21, 2020
Theatre Y hosts a virtual birthday celebration

A new video performance art series highlights András Visky's texts and visions.
- By Ariel Parrella-Aureli
- Tags: Feature, Theatre Y, My Body's Image, Delayed, András Visky, Melissa Lorraine, Howard Raik, Samuel Beckett, Magda Romanska

Arts & Culture, Art Feature Feb 5, 2020
Art expands the world of Juliet

An exhibit accompanying Theatre Y’s latest production puts motherhood front and center.
- By Kaylen Ralph
- Tags: Art Feature, Juliet, Theatre Y, Elise Glickman, Erin O'Neill, Tracy Marie Taylor, Keila Strong, Sophie Peterson, Mary Hazboun, Melissa Lorraine, Kevin V. Smith

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jan 22, 2020
Juliet is a naked cry of pain

But Theatre Y's staging covers up the Romanian prison camp story with too many needless additions.
- By Dmitry Samarov
- Tags: Theater Review, Juliet, Theatre Y, András Visky, Melissa Lorraine

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Aug 28, 2019
Recommended
The Camino Project combines pilgrimage and theater

Theatre Y's ambulatory production stretches over six hours and five miles—and it's worth your time and effort.
- By Josh Flanders
- Tags: Theater Review, Theatre Y, The Camino Project, Melissa Lorraine, Evan Hill, Dénes Döbre, Heni Varga, Eric K. Roberts, Alanna Gerardi, Arlene Arnone, Recommended

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Mar 29, 2019
The best part of Self-Accusation happens out on the sidewalk

Breaking the frame brings this German avant garde play to life.
- By Max Maller
- Tags: Theater Review, Self-Accusation, Theatre Y, Peter Handke, German avant garde, Arlene Arnone Bibbs, Melissa Lorraine, Héctor Álvarez

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Nov 8, 2018
Málaga, a play about a satanic babysitter, is an absolutely serious melodrama

Theatre Y's adaptation gets distracted by lots of clunky video-projection gimmickry.
- By Max Maller
- Tags: Theater Review, Málaga, Theatre Y, Raven Theatre, Lukas Bärfuss, Neil Blackadder, Katie Simpson, Eric K. Roberts, drama

Arts & Culture, Theater Review May 30, 2018
Recommended
The four plays that make up Stories of the Body plumb the depths of women’s experience

A Renaissance painter, a dancer, a sex worker, and Mother Teresa explore what it means to be female.
- By Irene Hsiao
- Tags: Theater Review, Stories of the Body, Theatre Y, Andras Visky, Artemisia Gentileschi, Katie Sherman, Mother Teresa, Katie Stimpson, Laurie Roberts, Melissa Lorraine, Andrej Visky, Eric K. Roberts, women’s autobiography, Recommended

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Nov 2, 2017
The Comedy of Errors, Marie Christine, and eight more new stage shows to see

A cartoon-inspired staging of the Bard and a creole update of Medea are among this week's best bets.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, The Basement Company, Adam Harrell, Madison Smith, Death & Pretzels, The Comedy of Errors, Shakespare, Filament Theatre, Shakespeare All-Stars, JT Nagle, Polley Cooney, Arin Mulvaney, In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play, TimeLine Theatre, Sarah Ruhl, Mechelle Moe, In Sarah's Shadow: The Eleonora Duse Story, Olivia Lilley, Prop Thtr, Sarah Bernhardt, George Bernard Shaw, Marie Christine, Euripides, Medea, Michael John LaChiusa, BoHo Theatre, Lilli-Ann Brown, Curtis Bannister, Nicole Michelle, Kyrie Courter, Ken Singleton, Pavi Proczko, Patricia Cotter, 1980 (or Why I'm Voting for John Anderson), Jackalope Theatre, Patricia Cotter, Kaiser Ahmed, Hillary Horvath, The Tiger Who Wore White Gloves, Gwendolyn Brooks, Nora Brooks Blakely, Valerie King, Izaiah Harris, Marc Rogers, Aaron Mitchell Reese, Kemati J. Porter, Destiny Casson, Upstairs: The Musical, UpStairs Lounge, New Orleans, Wayne Self, Pride Films and Plays, Eric Coleman, Gary Trick, Yerma, Federico García Lorca, Max Truax, Theatre Y

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Apr 5, 2017
Born Yesterday, The Great and Terrible Wizard of Oz, and seven more new theater and comedy reviews

A classic from Remy Bumppo and a revival from the House Theatre of Chicago are among this week's best bets.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Garson Kanin, Born Yesterday, Eliza Stoughton, Greg Matthew Anderson, Sean M. Sullivan, David Darlow, Fatelessness, Melissa Lorraine, Imre Kertész, Theatre Y, Benjamin Holliday Wardell, Andràs Visky, Adam Boncz, Feminism and Other Things, Drinking and Writing Theater, Amelia Bethel, Lady Grace Murphy, the House Theatre of Chicago, The Great and Terrible Wizard of Oz, Phillip Kapperich, AnJi White, Joe Steakley, L. Frank Baum, Christine Mayland Perkins, Tellin' Tales Theatre, Tekki Lomnicki, Steve Glickman, Judi Lee Goshen, Silent Sky, Lauren Gunderson, First Folio Theatre, Henrietta Leavitt, Melanie Keller, Cassandra Bissell, Christopher Kriz, Adventure Stage Chicago, Six Stories Tall, Marco Ramirez, Wolfgang Stein, the Annoyance, Anneliese Toft, Judi Lee Goshen, Tom Arvetis

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Feb 15, 2017
The Scottsboro Boys, The Ghoul Exhibition, and nine more new theater reviews

A powerful Chicago premiere from Porchlight and a searing solo show on gun violence are among this week's best bets.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, The Arrow, The Arrow Cleans House, Neo-Futurists, Kurt Chiang, Lily Mooney, Red Theater Chicago, Beowulf: An Epic Quest of Music, Monsters, and Mead, Aaron Sawyer, Pavi Proczko, Brindin Sawyer, Brenda Scott Wlazlo, Beowulf, Grendel's mother, Lyric Opera, Georges Bizet, Carmen, Ekaterina Gubanova, Joseph Calleja, Rob Ashford, Eleonora Buratto, New American Folk Theatre, Deep in the Heart of Tuna, Ed Howard, Joe Sears, Jaston Williams, Greater Tuna, A Tuna Christmas, Tuna, Texas, Derek Van Barham, Anthony Whitaker, Grant Drager, Héctor Álvarez, The Ghoul Exhibition, Theatre Y, Melissa Lorraine, gun violence, Rhinofest, Runaways Lab Theatre, Gannon Reedy, Nathaniel Shane, Goddamn Geniuses: Legacy of Brillians, 1927 Solway conference, Niels Bohr, Erwin Schrödinger, Albert Einstein, Eclectic Full Contact Theatre, The History Boys, Alan Bennett, Laura Carney, Katherine Siegel, I Left My Heart: A Salute to the Music of Tony Bennett, Mercury Theater, Jim DeSelm, Robert Hunt, Evan Tyrone Martin, Kevin Bellie, David Grapes, Todd Olson, Quest, The Actors Gymnasium, 500 Clown, Leslie Buxbaum Danzig, Leo Tolstoy, The Three Questions, Amanda Crockett, Kevin O'Donnell, Porchlight Music Theatre, The Scottsboro Boys, Kander and Ebb, John Kander, Fred Ebb, Samuel G. Roberson Jr., Florence Walker-Harris, Breon Arzell, David Thompson, Doug Peck, BoHo Theatre, Urinetown, Mark Hollmann and Greg Kotis, Aubrey Adams, Ariana Burks

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Oct 25, 2016
Grounded, Dogs of Rwanda, and a dozen more new theater reviews

Two solo performances are among this week's best bets.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Allá en San Fernando, Collectivo El Pozo, Leslie Magdalena Holguín, José Rochel, Carolina Escrich, Raúl Doronte, Stage Left Theatre, The Bottle Tree, Beth Kander, Kathryn Acosta, Amy Szerlong, The Right Brain Project, The Dancing Plague, Joseph Ramski, Nathan Robbel, Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints, Dark Sisters, Nico Muhly, Stephen Karam, Third Eye Theatre Ensemble, Jason Carlson, Dogs of Rwanda, Sean Christopher Lewis, Rwandan genocide, Grounded, George Brant, drone warfare, Amber Kelly, Lexi Saunders, Leavings, Polarity Ensemble Theatre, Gail Parrish, Ashley Honore Roberson, Lecherous Honey, Henrik Ibsen, Ghosts, Cock and Bull Theatre, Ariane Mnouchkine, Théâtre du Soleil, Georges Bigot, Theatre Y, Macbeth, Runaways Lab Theatre, Mary Shelley Sees the Future, Frankenstein, Olivia Lilley, Multitudes, John Hollingworth, Rasaka Theatre Company, Vitalist Theatre, Liz Carlin Metz, Bradford, England, Saturn Returns, Tif Henderson, NeoFuturists, NeoFuturarium, Thumbelina, Lifeline Theatre, Hans Christian Andersen, Brandi Lee, Zombie Broads, The Factory Theater, Corrbette Pasko, Sara Sevigny, Janice L. Blixt

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature May 4, 2016
Mike Mother, Best of Enemies, The 180 Degree Rule, and eight more stage shows to see now

A Neo-Futurist performance piece, a drama about an almost unimaginable alliance, and a satire of Hollywood's golden age are among the hits this week.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, iO, Vienna Juvenile, Matt Besser, Layne Dixon, Provision Theater, Best of Enemies, Osha Gray Davidson, Mark St. Germain, C.P. Ellis, Ann Atwater, Rod Armentrout, Felicia Fields, Collaboraction, Anthony Moseley, Rivendell Theatre, Dry Land, Ruby Rae Spiegel, Hallie Gordon, Bryce Gangel, Jessica Ervin, Curious Theatre Branch, The Eviller Twin, Sue Cargill, Stefan Brün, Raven Theatre, House of Blue Leaves, John Guare, JoAnn Montemurro, Kelli Strickland, Sarah Hayes, Lyric Opera, The King and I, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Paolo Montalban, Kate Baldwin, Ali Ewoldt, Rona Figueroa, Matthew Uzarraga, Théâtre du Châtelet, Mike Mother, Neo-Futurarium, Jessica Anne, Mike Hamilton, Marsha Norman, 'Night, Mother, Babes With Blades, The 180 Degree Rule, M.E.H. Lewis, Barbara Lhota, Rachel Edwards Harvith, Lisa Herceg, Stage 773, Skin in the Game, one-act festival, The Living Canvas, Cathedral, Right Brain Project, the Ruckus, Hobo Junction Productions, Organic Theater Company, pH Comedy, Thanks for the Tip, Kayce Alltop, Dan Wright, Jared Miller, Theatre Y, 3 Sisters, Andrej Visky, Melissa Lorraine, Katie Stimpson, Kevlyn Hayes, Anton Chekhov, Earl H.E. Hill, Dan Christmann

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jan 28, 2016
The rules have changed at Rhinofest

Has Chicago's longest-running fringe theater festival abandoned the fringe?
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Theater Review, Rhinofest, Curious Theatre Branch, Beau O'Reilly, Jenny Magnus, Eugène Ionesco, Rhinoceros, Rick Paul, Runaways Lab Theater, Logan Breitbart, Billy Goat Experiment Theatre, Karen Yates, Justin Botz, Julie Cowden, Theatre Y, Imre Kertész, Prop Thtr, Benjamin Holliday Wardell

Blogs, Bleader Dec 14, 2015
A Star Wars dinner, an artful look at Kanye West, and more things to do this week

The Game Dev Holiday Mixer, the Second Annual Curbside Yuletide Book Party, and other events happening in Chicago from December 14-17
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Theatre Y, I'm Going Back Home, Skimption, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Self-Portrait in a Kanye Mirror, Museum of Contemporary Art, Recommended Reading, Women & Children First, Game Dev Holiday Mixer, Emporium Arcade Bar, Star Wars Dinner, Tail Donkey Stick, Second Annual Yuletide Book Party, Beauty Bar

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jun 17, 2015
Recommended
The most unassuming diva on the planet shines in The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez

Melissa Lorraine of Theatre Y gets to be herself in this late play by Peter Handke.
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Theater Review, The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez, Theatre Y, Melissa Lorraine, Royal George Theatre, Juliet, Porn, Peter Handke, Zeljko Djukic, TUTA Theatre Chicago, Walt Whitman, Michael Roloff, Scott Abbott, Natasha Vuchurovich Dukich, The Seagull, Stealing Beauty, Kevin V. Smith, Recommended

Arts & Culture, Feature Aug 14, 2013
"There's something in me that wants to steal the holiness"

Melissa Lorraine of Theatre Y prepares to open The Binding, inspired by a Jewish apocryphal text and driven by movement, in a Logan Square church.
- By Laura Molzahn
- Tags: Feature, St. Luke's Lutheran Church of Logan Square, church buildings, movement, Theatre Y, The Binding, plays, Melissa Lorraine, actors, directors, Evan Hill, Testament of Abraham, religion, Denes Debrei, Heni Varga, KOBEZ-Centre Memoire du Corps, Andrew Schoen, Northern Illinois University, Eastern Europe, La MaMa, Melissa Hawkins, Philip Ridley, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, memorization, darkness, memory, Arch Harmon, Margaret Kustermann, Partners for Sacred Places, Andras Visky, Saint Luke's Lutheran Church of Logan Square

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Theatre Y turns Young Jean Lee's play into an elliptical but moving film project.

A new video performance art series highlights András Visky's texts and visions.

An exhibit accompanying Theatre Y’s latest production puts motherhood front and center.

But Theatre Y's staging covers up the Romanian prison camp story with too many needless additions.

Theatre Y's ambulatory production stretches over six hours and five miles—and it's worth your time and effort.

Breaking the frame brings this German avant garde play to life.

Theatre Y's adaptation gets distracted by lots of clunky video-projection gimmickry.

A Renaissance painter, a dancer, a sex worker, and Mother Teresa explore what it means to be female.

A cartoon-inspired staging of the Bard and a creole update of Medea are among this week's best bets.

A classic from Remy Bumppo and a revival from the House Theatre of Chicago are among this week's best bets.

A powerful Chicago premiere from Porchlight and a searing solo show on gun violence are among this week's best bets.

Two solo performances are among this week's best bets.

A Neo-Futurist performance piece, a drama about an almost unimaginable alliance, and a satire of Hollywood's golden age are among the hits this week.

Has Chicago's longest-running fringe theater festival abandoned the fringe?

The Game Dev Holiday Mixer, the Second Annual Curbside Yuletide Book Party, and other events happening in Chicago from December 14-17

Melissa Lorraine of Theatre Y gets to be herself in this late play by Peter Handke.

Melissa Lorraine of Theatre Y prepares to open The Binding, inspired by a Jewish apocryphal text and driven by movement, in a Logan Square church.

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