Upcoming Events
Two Hours in a Bar
Comedy/Drama, Musical
Runs Mar 08 – Apr 21, 2024
Double bill of one acts about dating
Murder in the Cathedral
Drama
Runs May 03 – Jun 16, 2024
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.
Presented by Lucid Theater Company
Wells and Welles
Drama
Runs Jul 18 – Aug 11, 2024
Drama imagines what happened in a meeting between H.G. Welles and Orson Welles, based on true events.
The House of Ideas
Drama
Runs Aug 23 – Oct 06, 2024
The final installment of the “Four-Color Trilogy” about three key moments in the history of comic books,
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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.