2025 RIPPED FESTIVAL
2025 Ripped Festival (via Zoom) Monday, Apr 14 @ 7:00 PM Central Zoom reading directors - Manny Buckley* & Elyse Dolan* Zoom reading actors - Venice Averyheart, Liz Chidester*, Bryanna Ciera Colón*, Elisabeth Del Toro, Camille Robinson*, Jamia Taylor, and Zak...
2025-2026 Season General Auditions
In-person appointments for AEA and non-union performers are available. We also accept all video submissions. LOCATION American Blues Theater 5627 N Lincoln Ave Chicago, IL 60659 AUDITION DATES / TIMES By appointment only: Thursday, April 24 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM General...
2025 BLUE BASH
Join us for our annual fundraiser – 2025 Blue Bash.
The Color Purple
Join us for our next book in the Rubber Banned Book Club! The Color Purple won a Pulitzer Prize in 1983, making Walker the first Black woman to win a Pulitzer for fiction. A feminist work about an abused and uneducated Black woman’s struggle for empowerment, The Color...
Belonging, Inclusion, & Pay Equity
Learn more about IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, & Access) at American Blues.
THE OH BOYS: “Back to Blues”
Join us for our next Commons event. See The Oh Boys: “Back to Blues”, featuring Ensemble member Zachary Stevenson.
Backstage Guide for 2024 IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE: LIVE IN CHICAGO! & Additional Resources
Insider look at IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE: LIVE IN CHICAGO! – read interviews, see designs, & learn more about the production.
Exec. Artistic Director’s Note for IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE: LIVE IN CHICAGO!
It’s been one year since we redeveloped a building into our non-profit theater, championing all American identities with particular roots in the working class – the blue collars.
“TEACHER TRIBUTE” during 2024 IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE: LIVE IN CHICAGO!
Nominate an educator for our annual “Teacher Tribute”.
TANIA RICHARD’S “BLACK GIRL FROM A WHITE SUBURB”
Join us for the first public reading of BLACK GIRL FROM A WHITE SUBURB, a solo show by Artistic Affiliate Tania Richard.