2024 RIPPED FESTIVAL

2024 RIPPED FESTIVAL

Join us for a live, Zoom reading of the 2024 Ripped plays. Monday, July 29 @ 7pm CT Tickets are suggested $15 or pay-what-you-can. Read 2024’s short works inspired and ripped from today’s headlines in our online script library. Featuring writers & directors...
Fun Home – a Family Tragicomic

Fun Home – a Family Tragicomic

Join us for our next book in the Rubber Banned Book Club!   CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, NATIONAL BESTSELLER Alison Bechdel’s groundbreaking, bestselling graphic memoir charts her fraught relationship with her late father. Distant and exacting, Bruce Bechdel was an...
LIZ & NILKO: “LATIN AMERICANA”

LIZ & NILKO: “LATIN AMERICANA”

Join us for our next Commons event! See LIZ & NILKO: “Latin Americana”, featuring Ensemble member Liz Chidester. Monday, July 22 @ 7:00 PM The show runs approximately 75 minutes with no intermission. Following the concert, feel free to stay in the...
Backstage Guide for THE LAST WIDE OPEN

Backstage Guide for THE LAST WIDE OPEN

DOWNLOAD PDF | OPEN IN BROWSER Additional Resources NAMI Chicago – promote community wellness, break down barriers to mental health care and provide support and expertise for families, professionals and individuals in Chicago and beyond. THE FAMILY INSTITUTE AT...
NO ONE CARES ABOUT CLOWN PAIN

NO ONE CARES ABOUT CLOWN PAIN

Philip Earl Johnson. 34 years as MooNiE: Juggler. FooLiSH MorTaL. He’s leaving the props at home. And now he’s talking back. Misadventures during international travel, Jury Duty and hilariously challenging patrons are just a few of the subjects he takes on in this 80...
2024-2025 Season General Auditions

2024-2025 Season General Auditions

All in-person appointments for AEA and non-union performers are booked. Waitlist is open. We are also accepting all video submissions.   LOCATION American Blues Theater 5627 N Lincoln Ave Chicago, IL 60659 AUDITION DATES / TIMES By appointment only: Thursday, May...
Fun Home – a Family Tragicomic

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

Join us for our next book in the Rubber Banned Book Club!   WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, was published in 1960. The book is a profound exploration of racial injustice and moral growth set in the fictional town of Maycomb,...

Ticket Donation Request

American Blues Theater is pleased to consider all requests for ticket donations. Ticket donations consist of an electronic voucher redeemable for two (2) tickets to any production in our 2024 season (including readings, concert series, and other programming). Please...
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