Upcoming Events
Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train
Drama
Runs Jul 25 – Sep 07, 2025
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. Angel Cruz is …
Strange Cargo: The Doom of the Demeter
Co-production with Black Button Eyes Productions
Drama, New Work, Spooky Season
Runs Oct 10 – Nov 23, 2025
The Dracula tale set on the high seas.

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For over 30 years, audiences and artists have joined City Lit to celebrate the power and beauty of the spoken written word. City Lit was founded in 1979 by Arnold Aprill, David Dillon and Lorrell Wyatt. At the time, it was the only theatre in the nation devoted to stage adaptations of literary material. City Lit has explored fiction, non-fiction, poetry, biography, essays and drama in performance, and presented a wide array of voices, from classic writers Edith Wharton and P.G. Wodehouse to contemporary writers Alice Walker and Raymond Carver.