by Blues | Jul 30, 2024 | Blue Ink Award & Festival, News
AUGUST 2 & 3, 2024 Join us for our 2-day festival of new plays. Celebrate the 2024 Blue Ink Award recipient Ken Urban and featured finalists Nick Malakhow and Brittany Fisher. Festival passes and individual tickets can be purchased HERE or by calling (773)...
by Blues | Jun 24, 2024 | News, The 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...
by Blues | Jun 24, 2024 | News, Rubber Banned Book Club
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...
by Blues | Jun 7, 2024 | News, The Commons
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...
by Blues | Jun 3, 2024 | News, The Last Wide Open
We asked Artistic Affiliate Katarzyna Müller (Polish adaptation & consultant) and her sister Matilda Szydagis (dialect coach) a few questions. You can read their bios in PRODUCTION TEAM. How would you describe your childhood, growing up in Chicago on the South...
by Blues | Jun 3, 2024 | News, The Last Wide Open
Welcome to American Blues Theater and our inaugural production in the Davee Studio! While this space has already hosted readings, concerts, an EDI seminar, and a dance party – you’re among the first customers of Jana’s Restaurant. In April 2019, I...
