Real Life & Real Theater

APTP devises original plays that tell real-life stories with honesty, imagination, intelligence, and love. Our performances will surprise and startle you, delight and amaze you, challenge you and console you, break you and heal you – and ultimately inspire you and make you feel more alive. Since 1997, our youth ensemble has premiered 19 plays, performed for more than 50,000 people, and opened Albany Park’s first performing arts space. The Chicago Tribune hails APTP as “one of Chicago’s more remarkable artistic institutions,” and the Chicago Sun-Times calls APTP “a prodigiously gifted, exquisitely directed youth ensemble that abounds in talent, technique, and emotional heat.”