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City Lit Theater to Present Excerpts from Top Challenged Books for Banned Books Week


by Chloe Rabinowitz - September 14, 2023

Discover the power of literature as City Lit Theater showcases excerpts from the top challenged books of the year. Join us for a thought-provoking event in observance of Banned Books Week....

City Lit Sets 2023-24 Season; Producer/Artistic Director Terry McCabe to Retire


by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 15, 2023

City Lit Producer and Artistic Director Terry McCabe announced that the theatre’s 2023-2024 season—its forty-third—will be his last on its staff. ...

Nominations for 2023 Jeff Awards for Non-Equity Theater Announced; See the Full List!


by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 31, 2023

Kicking off the new year, the Joseph Jefferson Awards announced its nominations for theater excellence among Non-Equity theater. See the full list!...

GEORGIANA & KITTY: CHRISTMAS AT PEMBERLEY to Open at Northlight Theatre in November


by Chloe Rabinowitz - November 02, 2022

Northlight Theatre will continue its 2022–2023 season with Georgiana & Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley by Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon, directed by Marti Lyons. The production runs November 25 – December 24, 2022....

City Lit Theater Will Celebrate 'Banned Books' Week


by Stephi Wild - September 16, 2022

City Lit Theater Company, in association with the American Library Association's Office of Intellectual Freedom, will again present BOOKS ON THE CHOPPING BLOCK, a celebration of BANNED BOOK WEEK, September 18-22, at various locations in and around Chicago....

The Impostors Theatre Company Returns with Chicago Premiere of THE HOUSE OF BABA YAGA 


by A.A. Cristi - October 07, 2021

The Impostors Theatre Company returns this November for their third season with the Chicago premiere of The House of Baba Yaga, by ITC ensemble member Emma Smart and directed by ITC Artistic Director Stefan Roseen....

Past Shows

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 ...

Videos


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Ensemble Theater In Honor of Helen Zell at Steppenwolf (4/25 - 6/2) Tracker
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical in Chicago Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
Paramount Theatre (4/24 - 6/16) Tracker
Queens of the Blues in Chicago Queens of the Blues
Studebaker Theater (6/7 - 6/23)
Jersey Boys in Chicago Jersey Boys
Mercury Theater Chicago (3/15 - 5/19)
The Second City Mainstage's 112th Revue in Chicago The Second City Mainstage's 112th Revue
The Second City - Mainstage (Chicago) (4/23 - 5/16)
MOMIX - Alice in Chicago MOMIX - Alice
Auditorium Theatre (5/9 - 5/9)
Ross Johnson: A Funny Thing Happened...Tomorrow! in Chicago Ross Johnson: A Funny Thing Happened...Tomorrow!
Rhapsody Theater (5/1 - 6/5)
Viva la Mort in Chicago Viva la Mort
The Conspirators (5/16 - 6/9)
Baby in Chicago Baby
Citadel Theatre Company (4/17 - 5/19)
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