by Blues | Mar 12, 2025 | News
Are you doing the work of anti-racism? Would you like to gain more skills and build on what you’ve started? Join us for a workshop on Inclusion and Allyship, taught by Artistic Affiliate and Belonging Specialist Tania Richard (award-winning author, actor, and...
by Blues | Mar 11, 2025 | News
Join us for our next Commons event! Back for an encore is Ensemble member Ian Paul Custer’s band The Real Time. Saturday, April 5 @ 7:00 PM The show runs approximately 80 minutes with no intermission. Following the concert, feel free to stay in the lobby and...
by Blues | Mar 11, 2025 | News, Ripped: Living Newspaper 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,...
by Blues | Mar 11, 2025 | News
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...
by Blues | Feb 10, 2025 | News
Join us for our annual party on Saturday, March 22! Includes performances by our award-winning Ensemble members & Artistic Affiliates, live auction + raffle, delicious food, fully-stocked bar, after party DJ & dancing. Featuring performances from our Ensemble...
by Blues | Jan 26, 2025 | News
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...