CITY LIT THEATER

Based on Chapter Seven of Bram Stoker’s DRACULA ,  this gothic horror high seas adventure tells the shocking events aboard the cargo ship transporting Count Dracula’s ...

A cage-rattling prison drama from Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis (BETWEEN RIVERSIDE AND CRAZY) that boldly examines faith, dignity, and our system of justice. ...

In 1920, Karel apek’s early science fiction classic R.U.R. coined the term “robot” and looked ahead to the wonders and dangers of artificial intelligence decades ...

A modern-day reimagining of the Beauty and the Beast fairy tale.

The Chicago non-Equity premiere of this searing August Wilson drama about six friends in the Hill District of Pittsburgh in 1948 mourning the death of ...

The final installment of the “Four-Color Trilogy” about three key moments in the history of comic books, THE HOUSE OF IDEAS examines the rise of Marvel ...

It’s 1940, exactly two years after Orson Welles’ infamous “War of the Worlds” radio broadcast, a show that infuriated author HG Wells. By an amazing ...

Murder in the Cathedral  dramatizes the martyrdom of Archbishop Thomas Becket at the hands of knights loyal to Henry II in 1170.  Eliot wrote it ...

A double bill of one-acts. WAITING FOR TINA MEYER  concerns a pair of best-friend actors--a man and a woman--sitting in a bar because the man is ...

A world premiere stage adaptation of the thriller novel THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER by Davis Grubb. Inspired by the crimes of West Virginia serial ...

City Lit Theater Company, in association with the American Library Association (ALA)’s Office of Intellectual Freedom, will again present BOOKS ON THE CHOPPING BLOCK during ...

The second play in Mark Pracht’s projected “Four-Color Trilogy” of plays set during the early years of the comic book industry, The Innocence of Seduction ...

City Lit Theater Company, in association with the American Library Association (ALA)’s Office of Intellectual Freedom, will again present BOOKS ON THE CHOPPING BLOCK during ...

QUANTUM LOVERS is about the turbulent love affair and tragic break-up between Albert Einstein and his first wife, Mileva Maric, a bittersweet tale that took ...

It’s the night before the beginning of the Aztec empire’s new millennium, and the Chosen One – so named because he is to be sacrificed ...

Harold Pinter's "comedy of menace." Stanley may or may not play the piano, and today may or may not be his birthday, and he may or ...

In 1939, two young friends huddled in a Bronx apartment and created a legend the comic book character Batman. One, Bob Kane, goes on to ...

Noel Coward's masterpiece. The four members of the eccentric Bliss family have each, without the other three knowing it, invited a guest to spend the ...

Nol Coward's masterpiece. The four members of the eccentric Bliss family have each, without the other three knowing it, invited a guest to spend the ...

City Lit Theater Company, in association with the American Library Associations Office of Intellectual Freedom, will again present BOOKS ON THE CHOPPING BLOCK, a celebration ...

Christy Mahon comes into Flaherty's tavern on the west coast of Ireland and claims to have killed his father with a shovel. The locals are ...

Christy Mahon comes into Flaherty's tavern on the west coast of Ireland and claims to have killed his father with a loy (shovel). The locals ...

One of the great Chicago plays. By City Lit's resident playwright, author of VOICE OF GOOD HOPE and THE SAFE HOUSE, it won the Susan ...

One of the great Chicago plays. By City Lit's resident playwright, author of Voice of Good Hope and The Safe House, it won the Susan ...

A world premiere adaptation of the novel that originated the archetype of the American cowboy. Never named, rough-hewn but soft-spoken, living on the frontier between ...

A world premiere adaptation of THE VIRGINIAN: A HORSEMAN OF THE PLAINS by Owen Wister, the novel that originated the archetype of the American cowboy. ...

A world premiere adaptation of THIRTEEN DAYS by Robert F. Kennedy, his memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis. On October 16, 1962, long-range Soviet missiles ...

World premiere adaptation of THIRTEEN DAYS by Robert F. Kennedy, his memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis. On October 16, 1962, Soviet missiles carrying nuclear ...

Virtual reading of Kristine Thatcher's play focusing on the life of Barbara Jordan, first Black Congresswoman from the deep south. As a devoted defender of ...

A world premiere adaptation of THIRTEEN DAYS by Robert F. Kennedy, his memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis. On October 16, 1962, long-range Soviet missiles ...

A dramatic portrait of Barbara Jordan, the first African American congresswoman to be elected from the Deep South. The play follows Jordan from her childhood ...

VOICE OF GOOD HOPE by City Lits resident playwright Kristine Thatcher. A dramatic portrait of Barbara Jordan, the first African American congresswoman to be elected ...

The death, quite suddenly, of Sir Charles Baskerville in mysterious circumstances is the trigger for one of the most extraordinary cases ever to challenge the ...

Opening our season will be a new production of our 2007 Jeff-nominated adaptation. We are pleased to be able to say that James Sparling and ...

A double-bill of two acts. In THE DEVIL AND DANIEL WEBSTER, adapted for the stage by Stephen Vincent Benet from his 1936 short story, a ...

The Devil and Daniel Webster by Stephen Vincent Benet, Trial by Jury by W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan Directed by Terry McCabe Music Directed by ...

By Lopé de Vega Adapted and directed by Terry McCabe “Fuente Ovejuna is a rousing, sweeping, adventurous tale . . .” Tribune The greatest play ...

By Kristine Thatcher Directed by Terry McCabe “Kristine Thatcher has written an important play, and it has landed in the hands of exactly the right ...

32-year-old Bridget has come back home for a visit to Lansing, Michigan from New York City, where she has been getting by--but not better than ...

Bluntschli, a Swiss soldier fonder of chocolates than of bullets, hides in the bedroom of Bulgarian heiress Raina while escaping from battle—a development that disturbs ...

The titan Prometheus, friend of humankind, is chained by Zeus —and fastened with a spike through his chest - to a mountain as punishment for ...