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Paradise Blue

Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe

It’s 1937, and three generations of porters are hard at work on the luxurious Panama Limited train. Midwest blues songs flavor their journey from Chicago to New Orleans as the porters confront dark secrets from their past and tough truths about their future together. This captivating coming of age story is woven with iconic blues music.

Pullman Porter Blues

Ensemble Theatre

On the heels of Gem of the Ocean (2022), expert August Wilson interpreter Chuck Smith revives the second work in the famed American Century Cycle—one of Wilson’s best-loved, most compelling plays. Herald Loomis searches the country with his young daughter to find his estranged wife. But first, he must regain a sense of his own heritage and identity in this story of spiritual and emotional resurrection.

Joe Turner's Come and Gone

Goodman Theatre

This Pulitzer Prize-winning drama is set in the segregation-era South of 1944. On a Louisiana Army base, two shots ring out. A Black sergeant is murdered. A series of interrogations triggers a gripping barrage of questions about sacrifice, service, and identity in America. One persistent investigator must race against his white leadership to unravel the crime before they unravel him.

Director

Chuck Smith

Events

Upcoming events

Jan 28 - Feb 8, 2026

Paradise Blue · Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe

Past events

Jan 28 - Feb 8, 2026

Paradise Blue · Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe

Jun 22 - Jul 28, 2024

Pullman Porter Blues · Epic Theatre Ensemble

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