What if democracy isn’t just a system—but a shared movement forward?
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.
FREE and open to the public. PLEASE RSVP
Performance Schedule: October 18-November 9, 2025
Saturday & Sundays 3pm-7pm
Location: Theatre Y – 3611 W Cermak Rd, Chicago, IL 60623
Includes a meal and a 3-mile walk around the neighborhood.
A theatrical experience unlike any other.
You go on a journey in order to find out why you went.
– Josh Flanders, Chicago Reader
Beginning Saturday, October 18th 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?
Created and Performed by Theatre Y
in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut and Rimini Protokoll
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 Laureate 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.