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In an “Alias” meets “Looper” type tale, this sci-fi adventure is latest addition to the cannon of new plays cultivated by BWBTC featuring stage combat.

A comedy of identity and sexuality

A series of 10-minute plays interspersed with standup and spoken word performers.

Double bill of one acts about dating

What would a Senior in High School born in 2006 know about the music of the 80’s? Derrick Taylor knows absolutely nothing about that decade of music but he is about to find out when his music teacher challenges him to research the music of the 80’s and compare it to the musical culture of today. Derrick is forced to go to his eccentric inventor Uncle Mike to help him discover what he calls ‘old folks music.’ However, with artists like Prince, Sheila E, Madonna, Keith Sweat and many, many more, He quickly learns that the music of the 80’s was and is phenomenal. Join Derrick as he enters the portal to the past and discovers what great music is all about!

Shakespeare’s classic tragedy in an intimate, in-the-round setting. Ashley Fox leads a knockout cast in a production that invites audiences to get up close and personal with their ghosts.

The first full production in Chicago since the early 1950s (though there have been concert readings from time to time) of Murder in the Cathedral by T.S. Eliot, author of Cats and a series of letters to Groucho Marx, among other works. The play dramatizes the martyrdom of Archbishop Thomas Becket at the hands of knights loyal to Henry II in 1170. Eliot wrote it on commission to be performed in the sanctuary at Canterbury Cathedral, the room where Becket was murdered; his depiction of the killing draws from the eye-witness account of Edward Grim, a monk who was wounded trying to protect the Archbishop. This production will be staged in the sanctuary of Edgewater Presbyterian Church, the building in which City Lit resides.

CIRCA Pintig's 33rd Season: KAPWA

On the Twentieth Century is a lively musical comedy set in the 1930s, featuring a glamorous journey aboard a luxury train where egos clash, romance blossoms, and theatrical shenanigans unfold, delivering a delightful blend of humor and heart.

In How to Kill a Rodent, Canadians Guy and Carrie take a road trip to Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania in an effort to commit a minor act of terrorism against the United States: assassinate Punxsutawney Phil, that magical prognosticating groundhog, on live television.

In Infinity Burns, it is the year 1599 and the monk Giordano Bruno is about to be burned at the stake. His crime: believing that the universe is infinitely large. He has seven days to convince the inquisition that he is right, or recant his views. Set in the dungeons of the inquisition and in the vastness of Bruno's own imagination, Infinity Burns explores what it takes to live in connection with our internal truth, and when to let it go.

Bramble Theatre Company's third annual Festival of Unfinished Work features six (6) short scenes from original full-length plays currently in process, written by Chicago-based playwrights.

The Mad Ones invites audiences on an introspective and rebellious exploration of youth, self-discovery, and the pursuit of authenticity, as a group of high school seniors grapple with the complexities of growing up in this poignant and energetic musical featuring songs like “Freedom” and “Run Away With Me”.