Albany Park Theatre Project: Acclaim


Stories of Immigration, Cleverly Told by Teens By Hedy Weiss, Theater Critic - Chicago Sun-Times The company has transformed an often virulent and intensely partisan subject into the highest art....Nearly two dozen fervent young performers magically unspool a series of stories in this knockout of a show. Read more...
Suitcases, Rubber Ducks, Game Shows and Superhuman Padres By Bill Boerman-Cornell, Catapult Magazine Some of the best theater in the country, by any actors, professional or amateur, of any age. Read more...
APTP’s “Home/Land” is a Gift to Chicago; Extended Dates Announced Soon! By Darcy Rose Coussens, Chicago Theatre Review APTP is truly something special. Not only has it provided opportunities for its multiethnic youth ensemble in arts creation and performance, but it gives a voice to local residents. Read More...
Albany Park Theater Project: Home/Land By Katherine Zien, Flavorpill Home/Land is a complex, meticulous tapestry...the stories resound as news footage cannot...Not to be missed. Read more...
Chicago Reader: Culture Vultures By Cheryl Pope, Chicago Reader Albany Park Theater Project is sharing a fearless performance called Home/Land. Read more...
Chicago Reader: Recommended By Asher Klein, Chicago Reader A profile of APTP during the early stages of creating Home/Land. Listen.
Chicago Live! Rick Kogan interviews associate director Maggie Popadiak about "Home/Land," and cast members perform an excerpt. View.
Arts After School: Albany Park Theater Project By David Polk, 98.7 WFMT A profile of APTP during the early stages of creating Home/Land. Listen.
Playing with Our Food By Alan Maass, Socialist Worker - October 2010 Alan Maass reviews Feast, a play about food and people hungry for better lives...
This ‘Feast’ Will Leave You Wanting More By Aggie Hewitt, Chicago Theater Blog - May 2010 Albany Park Theater Project has proved to be one of the most exciting and all around cool theatre companies in Chicago...
Review of Feast at Albany Park Theater Project By Ada Grey - October 2010 I have never seen a play like it before...
'Feast' by the Albany Park Theatre Project: So this is APTP, not the usual youth ensemble fare By Chris Jones, Theater Critic - Chicago Tribune - July 21, 2010 “Feast” is certainly one of the best shows you'll ever see of its kind. Here's why...
An imaginative and compelling taste of Albany Park's rich immigrant society By Marissa Oberlander - Chicago Reader - July 2010
Youth Ensemble Serves up Feast for the Senses By Hedy Weiss, Theater Critic - Chicago Sun-Times - April 28, 2010 This enthralling new show, devised and performed by the Albany Park Theater Project (APTP) - a company of sublimely gifted teenage actors - is nothing short of delicious. Read more...
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Gapers Block - A Theater Grows in Albany Park Albany Park Theater Project’s most recent show, Feast, explores the role of food in community members’ lives and closed last month to sold-out houses and rave reviews.
Chicago Sun-Times - ’Feast’ Production Inspires Albany Park Community Garden The Albany Park Theater Project’s production of ‘Feast’ – about how food figures into immigrants’ lives – has inspired the creation of a community vegetable garden in the park where the theater is based.
WBEZ - Chicago Public Radio - April 16, 2010 For the past year, Albany Park Theater Project has been working on their latest - "Feast." Eight Forty-Eight's Eilee Heikenen-Weiss recently talked to a few of the people involved in the show.
Food Reporter Monica Eng on "Feast" Chicago Tribune - The Stew Leisure Blog - April 6, 2010 New Food Play Serves Up Tasty Food Memories and Stirring Views on Food Policy.
Sunday Papers with Rick Kogan - April 11, 2010 Rick talks with David Feiner, artistic director, APTP, and some of the kids from the Albany Park Theater Project's latest show, "Feast," running through April 24.
Yale School of Drama Spotlights APTP APTP’s co-founders, David Feiner and Laura Wiley, met while they were both students at the Yale School of Drama, the most famous and respected theater school in the United States. The Yale School of Drama’s Alumni Magazine recently featured APTP and an interview with David in an article about theater and social change.
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Coming Up Taller Presented to Albany Park Theater Project by the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. More... 2004
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