Press about Theatre Y:
Chicago’s Theatre Y plans a bold move: A campus in North Lawndale with members of the ensemble moving with the theater - Chicago Tribune
“We Are Proud to Present…” (2023)
Review: ‘We Are Proud to Present’ is a brave beginning for Theatre Y in North Lawndale - Chicago Tribune
Revolutionary Practice: A Review of “We are Proud to Present” at Theatre Y - Newcity Stage
Catharsis through fire: Theatre Y’s We Are Proud to Present . . . digs into the emotional truths of colonization and genocide. - Chicago Reader
The Emerald Camino Project (2019)
Rescripted - Highly Recommended
We’re Gonna Die
Chicago Reader - Highly Recommended
Newcity Stage - Highly Recommended
Dueling Critics - Highly Recommended
The segment starts 20 minutes and 40 seconds into the program.
András Visky’s JULIET
Howlround - Taking Risks to Promote Community
WTTW - Highly Recommended
Wttw’s Chicago tonight
The Camino Project
Chicago Reader - Highly Recommended
Picture this Post - Highly Recommended
Self Accusation
Newcity Stage - Highly Recommended
Chicago Tribune - Highly Recommended
Chicago Theater Triathlon - Highly Recommended
Stories of the Body
Picture this Post - Highly Recommended
Chicago Reader - Highly Recommended
Newcity Stage - Recommended
Macbeth
City Desk Shakespeare 400 Chicago - Highly Recommended
Newcity Stage - Recommended
Buzz News - Recommended
Fatelessness
The Chicago Reader - Recommended
An Impressive Presentation of Lovely Evidences
The Chicago Reader - Recommended
The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez
Chicago Critic - Highly Recommended
Chicago Reader - Highly Recommended
Chicago Stage Standard - 2.5/4 stars
2010 JULIET Reviews
Other press:
COVER STORY OF THE CHICAGO READER:
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
COVER STORY OF THE NEW YORK TIMES ART SECTION:
"[Lorraine] plies her character’s grim magic with such angry conviction that you may well pinch your arm to make sure it’s still made of flesh. But your emotions, at least, are likely to remain raw and human. The elfin [Lorraine] is an almost elemental presence." 'I Killed My Mother,' Andras Visky's Play, at La Mama. By BEN BRANTLEY
Quotes about Our Performances
“Once again, Theatre Y creates a production that is as extraordinary in vision and delivery as it is provocative and captivating. Nuanced, eviscerating, staggering emotional authenticity..,with fantastically stylized kaleidoscopic surrealism.”
“Of all of the deserved accolades that can be lavished on Theatre Y’s mission and breathtaking work, perhaps the most accurately deserved is an imagined prescient hypothetical. If they were creating their art under a corrupt and brutal regime, they would no doubt have already been imprisoned and would quite possibly be dead by now. Given that peculiar theoretical paradigm, when viewing their work it is as if you are watching the ghosts of great artists poignantly, vehemently and posthumously rage against the very structural machine of human deprivation. Even in a “free” country, Theatre Y’s work is beautifully subversive. Since we are always just an election or two away from the potential of crushing suppression, their insight is always imperatively relevant.”
““Far beyond routine. Mesmerizing, riveting, energized, ambitious, articulated, bold...damn good theater.”
““A brilliant interpretation of a brilliant play.””
