In Good Company - Chicago and Theatre Y

IN GOOD COMPANY Created and Performed by Theatre Y in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut and Rimini Protokoll October 18-November 9th, 2025 Saturdays 3 pm & Sundays 3 pm FREE and open to the public. PLEASE RSVP Location: Theatre Y - 3611 W Cermak Rd, Chicago, IL 60623 Includes a meal and a 3-mile walk around the neighborhood. What if democracy isn’t just a system—but a shared movement forward? TICKETS Step into an unexpected journey through your city— where the familiar becomes extraordinary and strangers become companions. Chicago, IL — Join us this fall for In Good Company, a site-specific theater performance traveling to Houston, Milwaukee, and St. Paul, before returning to CHICAGO (Oct. 18-Nov. 9). Designed as an immersive walk through city streets, the performance invites you to reflect on community, democracy, and belonging—one step at a time. Beginning Saturday, October 18th, 2025, and running Saturdays and Sundays through November 9th, 2025, Chicagoans are invited to experience In Good Company,a theatrical walking performance that invites audiences to rediscover civic imagination, neighborliness, and common ground. Through immersive storytelling, live performance, and shared reflection, this one-of-a-kind event transforms city streets into a stage for community. In Good Company is an immersive, site-specific performance that blends theater, dance, music, and public dialogue. It invites audiences to reflect on what it means to be seen, heard, and connected in today’s divided world. When we see the world differently, how do we still move forward together? How do we rehearse and embody solidarity? The walks will each begin at 3PM at Theatre Y (3611 W. Cermak) and travel by foot through the neighborhood, returning to Theatre Y around 6PM for a FREE meal together. This performance and meal is entirely free, however the audience is invited to bring bread and/or fruit to share. Each performance will conclude around 7pm. All performances are FREE to the public thanks to members who donate as little as $5/month ($60/year). We welcome DONATIONS and MEMBERS! IN GOOD COMPANY is created and performed by Theatre Y's Artistic Director Melissa Lorraine, Dramaturg Evan Hill, Ensemble Member Eric K. Roberts, rapper and Swerve curator The Law of HUEY, Chicago's First Youth Poet Loreate E'mon Lauren, and writer/political scientist Bryan Brickner (full bios). The Chicago performances feature Marvin Tate (vocals and bells), Kyle Gregory Price (percussion), Riley Leitch (trombone), Shawn Bunch (chimes), Emily Bynum (dancer and soloist), Roesha (Ro) Townsel (dancer), Kaniya Redmond (dancer), The Stone Temple Choir, and more! Theatre Y is a Chicago-based ensemble known for its bold, participatory productions that center community engagement and radical inclusion. In Good Company features local dancers, musicians, and singers, in collaboration with North Lawndale’s own Marvin Tate, Music Inc, and Stone Temple Church. It is presented in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut, Germany’s international cultural institute, which promotes cross-cultural dialogue, artistic exchange, and global understanding through partnerships and programming around the world. The project features a collaboration with Helgard Haug of the internationally renowned performance collective Rimini Protokoll (Berlin), known for radically expanding the possibilities of theater in public space. About Theatre Y: Theatre Y is a Chicago-based international incubator that creates connections between diverse artists seeking mutual growth through collaboration. Since 2006, Theatre Y has been a point of convergence for diverse activisms, and all of the uncomfortable conversations that happen as a result. Artistic director Melissa Lorraine and the Theatre Y ensemble are committed to continuously re-thinking the practice of theater as a tool of liberation and a revolutionary practice, bringing Theatre Y to venues ranging from La MaMa’s historical theater to Illinois prisons. Newly and permanently relocated to the West Side (on the border of North Lawndale and Little Village), Theatre Y, now in its 19th year of experimental productions, challenging international content, and a member-based FREE theater model, occupies a unique place in Chicago's theater community. More about our history and mission.

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