• Port of Entry, Chicago Tribune review. APTP and Third Rail Projects immersive experience.

    PORT OF ENTRY (Review) by Chris Jones | August 7, 2023

    If you go and see this show — and you truly should, for it is beautiful and fresh and a work of reconciliation — you’ll never again travel through Albany Park without turning your head and looking up anew at its windows.

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  • New York Times Article titled Adventures in a Sinister Wonderland

    THEN SHE FELL (Feature) by Siobhan Burke | August 11, 2013

    “The movement in the show, Ms. Willett said, evolved through a constant paring down to essentials: “When it didn’t feel like choreography anymore, that’s when we knew, O.K., this is what it should be–when you forget that the characters are dancing, because that’s just what they do, and you wouldn’t expect them to do anything else.”

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  • New York Times newspaper headline titled Lewis Carroll Is in a Hospital

    Critic's Pick: THEN SHE FELL (Review) by Ben Brantley | November 30, 2012

    “This show occupies a dreamscape where the judgements and classifications of the waking mind are inoperative, and where the single self keeps splitting and blurring.”

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  • New York Times newspaper headline Review:Oasis Brings Childlike Whimsy to Manhattan Mall

    Critic's Pick: OASIS (Review) by Laura Collins-Hughes | April 7, 2019

    “...a heightened form of people-watching. In the wordlessness of its small dramas and romances, we get to fill in the blanks.”

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  • New York Times newspaper headline Review:Specters of the Stage Enchant in 'Ghost Light'

    Critic's Pick: GHOST LIGHT (Review) by Ben Brantley | June 19, 2017

    “… a spectral tour of the hoary legends, superstitions and rituals that remain sacrosanct in the hearts of even the most jaded playmakers… this production traffics in, and transcends, the enduring clichés of a profession, finding a hypnotic circularity in a craft that is, after all, about recreating the same images and words night after night after night.”

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  • The Washington Post newspaper headline: The Friendly specters of 'Ghost Light' work their incandescent charms

    GHOST LIGHT (Review) by Peter Marks | June 19, 2017

    “…the type of interactive show that should be replicated in every theater town in the country with a yen to take audiences by the hands- literally- and remind them of what the stage can do that no other entertainment platform can.”

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  • Forbes article page with headline: For One Long Night, Manhattan Was Turned Into A Massive Game For Hundreds of Finance Workers

    MIDNIGHT MADNESS (Review) by Seth Porges | August 14, 2015

    “…an every-couple-of-years overnight adventure that forces teams of (mostly) finance folks to criss-cross the city as they track down clues, solve puzzles, and unwittingly take part in what may be the largest and most ambitious immersive theater production the city has ever seen.”

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  • New York Times newspaper page with headline: Review: 'The Grand Paradise' Summons a '70s Pleasure Palace

    Critic's Pick: THE GRAND PARADISE (Review) by Ben Brantley | January 31, 2016

    “…this interactive tour of an imaginary Floridian pleasure palace from the 1970s manages to summon romantic promise and regretful retrospection in a single, ocean-air breath.”

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  • Chicago Tribune newspaper page with headline: A day in the life of a public school in immersive 'Learning Curve'

    LEARNING CURVE (Review) by Chris Jones | August 1, 2016

    “… embraces the symbolic, the inner life of the kid, the deeper context …the biggest takeaway of all about ‘Learning Curve’ is just how many curveballs adults throw in the way of actual learning, even though the faces you see in this show are upturned with determination, talent and ambition.”

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  • Page from American Theater publication with title Teaching Moments in Albany Park's 'Learning Curve'

    LEARNING CURVE (Feature) by Kerry Reid | October 21, 2016

    “…an abandoned parochial school in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood becomes the setting for a site-specific show that takes audiences all over the building and into the heart of what it means to negotiate the contested territory of public education in America.”

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  • New York Times newspaper article with title "Family Camping Trip Packed With Phantom Selves, Hopes, and Dreams"

    ROADSIDE ATTRACTION (Review) by Alastair Macaulay | July 1, 2013

    “…the choreography takes everyday impulses and makes them lyrically potent.”

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  • New York Times newspaper article titled "Picnic Tables for Dancing, Bookcases for Naps"

    THIRD RAIL PROJECTS (Feature) by Helene Stapinski | June 20, 2014

    “This is what happens when Third Rail comes to visit.”

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  • New York Times newspaper article with title "This Ruminative Funeral Moves to a Country Beat"

    VANISHING POINT (Review) by Roslyn Sulcas | July 1, 2008

    “…charmingly relaxed from the opening moments, when Jennine Willett dances alone, with quick earthy movements…”

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Trailer: Third Rail Projects Reel

 

Documentary: Between Yourself and Me
A co-production of Dance Films Association and Third Rail Projects

 

Feature: Then She Fell: Caught In The Act by BRIC TV | October 2, 2012

 

Feature: The Art of Creating Immersive Theatrical Experiences with Jennine Willett | Learning Theater Spotlight | Literacy Unbound Summer Institute

 

Feature: MANA SPOTLIGHT: Third Rail Projects Residency | Mana Contemporary | 2013

 

Feature: Off Book: Steampunk | PBS DIGITAL STUDIOS | AUGUST 31, 2011