We're proud to celebrate our 28th Season with you. American Blues Theater illuminates the American ideas of freedom, equality and opportunity in the plays we produce and the communities we serve.

Performances


We’re proud to present Season 28 “Legends and Legacies”! Join us for the Chicago professional AEA premiere of the musical “Hank Williams: Lost Highway”. We return with Chicago’s favorite holiday tradition, the 12th annual “It’s a Wonderful Life: Live in Chicago!”—moved into our new venue. MORE

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Douglas Post wins American Blues Theater’s 2014 Blue Ink Playwriting Award Congratulations to Douglas Post for winning American Blues Theater’s 2014 Blue Ink Playwriting Award. His script Comden Mall Community Activists was chosen from over 400 submissions across the U.S., Canada, and the United Kingdom. MORE

How To Purchase Tickets

There are two easy ways to purchase tickets. Choose individual tickets for a specific production, Season 29 FlexPass, or special event below.
If you need assistance with individual production tickets call our Box office at 773-404-7336.

Grounded

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Grounded
June 6 – July 13, 2014
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Hank Williams

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Hank Williams: Lost Highway
Begins July 25, 2014
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Wonderful Life

Tickets on sale in Oct.

It's a Wonderful Life
November 21 – December 28, 2014
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Current Performance

We’re proud to present Season 28 “Legends and Legacies”! Join us for the Chicago professional AEA premiere of the musical “Hank Williams: Lost Highway”. We return with Chicago’s favorite holiday tradition, the 12th annual “It’s a Wonderful Life: Live in Chicago!”—moved into our new venue.

During the winter, we’ll present the world premiere of the 2012 Blue Ink Playwriting Prize and Edgerton Foundation New Play Award “American Myth”. We conclude our season with the Chicago premiere of George Brant’s solo show “Grounded” that won the Smith Prize and 2013 Edinburgh’s Fringe First Award.

Grounded – June 6 through July 13, 2014

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PERFORMANCE INFO


Previews June 6 – June 8, 2014

Opens June 12, through July 13


Thur – Sat @ 7:30pm Sun @ 2:30pm

75 minutes, no intermission.

at Greenhouse Theater Center, 2257 N. Lincoln Ave, Chicago

BOX OFFICE

Call (773) 404-7336 for tickets

or purchase online here $19-$49.

TOWN HALLS

We offer free post-show events:

June 15 – Discussion on PTSD with Dr. Michele Kerulis

June 22 – Women Vetrepreneurship Program

June 29 – Meet the director, Lisa Portes

July 6 – Meet the solo performer, Gwendolyn Whiteside

SYNOPSIS

A hot-rod F16 fighter pilot’s unexpected pregnancy ends her career in the sky. Repurposed to flying remote-controlled drones in Afghanistan from an air-conditioned trailer near Vegas, the Pilot struggles through surreal twelve-hour shifts far from the battlefield, hunting terrorists by day and being a wife and mother by night. A tour de force play for one actress, GROUNDED flies from the heights of lyricism to the shallows of workaday existence, targeting our assumptions about war, family, and the power of storytelling. Explore our playguide. Read the director’s statement.

ARTISTS

Cast: Gwendolyn Whiteside* (The Pilot).

Production: George Brant (playwright), Lisa Portes (director), Sarah E. Ross* (scenic), Elsa Hiltner (costumes), Sarah Hughey* (lights), Lindsay Jones* (sound), Mike Tutaj (projections), Arianna Soloway* (properties), Ellen Willett (production manager), Kristin Leahey (dramaturg), & Jaclyn Holsey* (stage manager).

*American Blues Theater Ensemble and Artistic Affiliates

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