Joseph Jefferson Awards & Noms for FENCES

Joseph Jefferson Awards & Noms for FENCES

UPDATE (10/2/23) We’re honored & thrilled that FENCES won 3 Joseph Jefferson Awards last night: Huge congratulations & thanks to all of the artists, crew, technicians, and staff involved in the production, including: Kamal Angelo Bolden, Manny Buckley,...
Director’s Note for August Wilson’s FENCES

Director’s Note for August Wilson’s FENCES

Hello and Welcome to American Blues Theater’s production of Fences, In 2018, I directed a production of Hamlet at The Gift Theatre in Chicago. At the center of it was an astounding performance by Daniel Kyri playing a young black man wrestling with the weight of...
Artistic Director’s Note for August Wilson’s FENCES

Artistic Director’s Note for August Wilson’s FENCES

We are thrilled to welcome you to August Wilson’s Fences. Wilson is one of the greatest voices of American theater. His masterpiece script Fences debuted in 1985 and won the Pulitzer Prize for drama, among many other theater honors. Wilson created the seminal ten-play...
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