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City Lit To Perform Excerpts From The Top 10 Challenged Books In BOOKS ON THE CHOPPING BLOCK


by Chloe Rabinowitz - September 15, 2025

City Lit Theater Company will again present BOOKS ON THE CHOPPING BLOCK during BANNED BOOKS WEEK. Learn more about the events and see how to attend here!...

INTO THE WOODS, CORONATION, and More Nomination For Non-Equity Jeff Awards


by Stephi Wild - March 25, 2025

The Joseph Jefferson Awards has announced the recipients for theater excellence among Non-Equity theater during the 2024 season. Check out the full list of winners here!...

Production Team Set for 51st Anniversary Non-Equity Jeff Awards Ceremony


by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 13, 2025

At the 51st Anniversary Joseph Jefferson Awards for Non-Equity Theater, more than 100 recognized artists and new emerging faces and voices will be honored. Learn more about the ceremony!...

The Jeff Awards Reveal 51st Anniversary Non-Equiy Theater Awards Nominations


by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 06, 2025

Celebrating its 51st anniversary awarding recognition for Non-Equity theater, the Joseph Jefferson Awards revealed its nominations for theater excellence among Non-Equity theater during the 2024 season. Learn more about the nominations....

Past Shows

BOOKS ON THE CHOPPING BLOCK
10/5 - 10/11/2025


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 ...

Thirteen Days
Thirteen Days
9/10 - 10/24/2021


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 ...

Prometheus Bound
Prometheus Bound
4/27 - 6/10/2018


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 ...

The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray
3/2 - 4/15/2018


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 ...

J.B.
J.B.
10/27 - 12/10/2017


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 of the Sorrows
Deirdre of the Sorrows
9/1 - 10/15/2017


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, ...

London Assurance
London Assurance
6/9 - 7/23/2017


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 ...

Forty-Two Stories
Forty-Two Stories
4/14 - 5/28/2017


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 ...

The Sundial
The Sundial
1/6 - 2/12/2017


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 ...

The Sundial
The Sundial
1/6 - 2/12/2017


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, ...

The Sundial
The Sundial
1/6 - 2/12/2017


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 ...

Psmith, Journalist
Psmith, Journalist
9/23 - 11/6/2016


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, ...

Psmith, Journalist
Psmith, Journalist
9/23 - 11/6/2016


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 ...

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