CITY LIT THEATER COMPANY

City Lit Theater Company presents a series of readings from the top ten challenged books of the year during Banned Books Week, running from October ...

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 world premiere translation of Aeschylus’ theatrically boldest tragedy, commissioned by City Lit from Nicholas Rudall, Founding Director of Court Theatre and internationally acclaimed award-winning ...

Oscar Wilde’s only novel ranks with Frankenstein and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as a defining excursion into psychological horror. Dorian ...

Set in the center ring under the Big Top of a traveling circus that has seen better days, Archibald MacLeish’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play is a ...

DEIRDRE: “Do many know what is foretold, that Deirdre will be the ruin of the Sons of Usna, and have a little grave by herself, ...

Grace Harkaway, who considers herself immune to love, is marrying elderly Sir Harcourt Courtly for his money. Then she meets his son. Then Sir harcourt ...

A comedy about life in a Lake Shore Drive high-rise condo building where a professional student from the University of Chicago is moonlighting as a ...

Our third world premiere Shirley Jackson adaptation, staged by three-time Jeff-winning adapter Paul Edwards. Jackson's eerie, wickedly comic novel opens on the evening of the ...

It’s the evening of the funeral of Lionel Halloran, master of Halloran House. Was Lionel’s mysterious death from a fall down stairs murder? Lionel’s widow, ...

City Lit Theater Company presents a World-Premiere adaptation of Shirley Jackson’s The Sundial; an eerie, wickedly comic novel which served as a point of inspiration ...

City Lit returns to the work of one of its favorite authors, this time with Terry McCabe’s original adaptation of Wodehouse’s 1915 novel about Psmith, ...

The most frequently produced author in City Lit history returns. Monocle-wearing dandy Psmith comes to New York, edits a newspaper, fights organized crime, and loses ...