2024 Blue Ink Award Winner Announced
Congratulations to Ken Urban, winner of the 2024 Blue Ink Award for The Conquered. As part of the award, Urban receives a $3,000 cash prize, a staged reading directed by Artistic Affiliate Dexter Bullard at American Blues Theater, and the opportunity to further...
2024 BLUE BASH
Join us for our annual fundraising event to support our artistic programs and community service.
The Nubile Thangs! – concert
Join us for another Commons event – The Nubile Thangs!
the real time – concert
Join us for another Commons event – “the real time” concert in our studio.
Press Center – Opening Our Permanent Home
Press for our permanent home – 5627 N Lincoln, Chicago 60659
Press Center – 2023 It’s a Wonderful Life: Live in Chicago!
Press for our production of 2023 “It’s a Wonderful Life: Live in Chicago!”
Press Center – The Reclamation of Madison Hemings
Press for our production of “The Reclamation of Madison Hemings”.
Press Center – General News
Press for American Blues Theater programming and leadership.
Backstage Guide for THE RECLAMATION OF MADISON HEMINGS
Inside look at THE RECLAMATION OF MADISON HEMINGS – read interviews, see designs, & learn more about the production.
Playwright Charles Smith’s Note
“The Reclamation of Madison Hemings” was envisioned as, and commissioned to be, a two-person play about Madison Hemings and Israel Gillette Jefferson, two men who were enslaved at Thomas Jefferson’s forced labor camp, Monticello.