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In this new podcast, Paul goes behind the curtain to discuss Black Ensemble Theater’s current production: “Blue Heaven.” Writer/Director Daryl Brooks and actor Billy Rude talk about the music and ...

Black Ensemble Theater will present Blue Heaven, written and directed by Producing Managing Director Daryl D. Brooks. This soul-stirring new production will celebrate the power of the blues with the ...

In Black Ensemble Theater’s new jukebox musical, “Blue Heaven,” the dearly departed wait to enter paradise, not in a fiery purgatory where they are purified of their sins, but in a cool club called ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- "Blue Heaven" is a rousing tribute to the music that calls Chicago home, and the legends who made it an American art form. Lyle Miller plays Howlin' Wolf, and Dwight Neal, Muddy ...