Low Down Dirty Blues

Low Down Dirty Blues is now playing in Chicago at Northlight Theatre until July 3.  After it's run in Chicago, the cast will travel down to Florida and we will open our production of Low Down Dirty Blues July 17.  This is our first production in our new home in the Rinker Playhouse at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts. Meet the all-star cast below:  

Mississippi Charles Bevel appeared in the original Broadway cast of It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues (Tony Award nominee), as well as at Arizona Theatre Company, Denver Center Theatre Company, Missouri Rep, and Seattle Rep. Other credits include productions at the Goodman Theatre, Karamu Performing Arts Theatre, Meadow Brook Theatre, Geva, Plowshares Theatre Company, St. Louis Black Repertory, San Diego Repertory Theatre, Denver Center Theatre Company, Seattle Repertory Theatre.

      

Felicia P. Fieldsa native Chicagoan, earned a Tony Award nomination for her portrayal of Sofia in The Color Purple on Broadway. Her performance also earned her a 2006 Theatre World Award, A Clarence Derwent Award, two Broadway.com Awards and she was a 2006 Drama League honoree. Felicia has worked throughout the Chicagoland area and has received many Joseph Jefferson award nominations for her performances in Jammin' with Pops(Ella Fitzgerald), Hot Mikado(Katisha), Show Boat(Queenie), Ma Rainey's Black Bottom(Ma Rainey), Aint Misbehavin' (Nell/Amelia) and Dreamgirls(Effie Melody White), to name a few. Felicia's stellar performance in Chicago's Drury Lane production of Sophisticated Ladies earned her the Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Actress in a Musical.
             

Gregory Porter was a member of the original Broadway cast of It Ain’t Nothin' But the Blues. Other credits include: Nat King Cole and Me: A Musical Healing at the Denver Center Theater Company, a musical that he co-created with Randal Myler. Gregory performed on the national tour of the Broadway musical Civil War and appeared in Avenue X at San Diego Repertory Theatre. In addition to acting, he is an accomplished jazz vocalist and professional chef. His television appearances include "Late Night with David Letterman", "The Rosie O'Donnell Show" and "The Today Show". He has recorded with renowned jazz flutist Hubert Laws, and has a new CD out this May on Motema Music. Gregory performs frequently with Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra.
             
Sandra Reaves-Phillips was born in South Carolina, where she labored in the migrant fields with her grandmother and sang in the church choir before entering the world of show business. Theatre credits include It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues, One Mo' Time, Further Mo' and Raisin (National Tours); Little Bit (Off-Broadway); Sweet Mama Stringbean (National Black Theatre Festival); and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (Citadel Theatre, Canada and Pittsburgh Public), among others. She has had countless club, festival and special appearances around the world, including New York's famed Cotton Club, the Montreal Jazz Festival, and Cavalcade of Stars at Carnegie Hall. She continues to tour in shows she created: Late Great Ladies of Blues & Jazz, Bold & Brassy Blues, Me, Myself & You and Glory Hallelujah Gospel! Television: “Law and Order”, Comedy Central, “Homicide”, “Another World”, and NBC Movie of the Week Following Her Heart. Film: ‘Round Midnight and Lean on Me, for which she sang the title song.