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Noel Coward's masterpiece. The four members of the eccentric Bliss family have each, without the other three knowing it, invited a guest to spend the weekend at their country estate. But the Blisses wouldn't be successful hosts to one visitor; confronted with four, they put their guests through their self-absorbed version of hospitality, utterly oblivious to the train wreck they've engineered. An irresistibly heartless comedy.
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The Mark of Kane
by Mark Pracht
October 21 - December 4, 2022 (Previews Oct. 21 - 29)
In 1939, two young friends huddled in a Bronx apartment and created a legend. A hero who represents an enduring chapter in the tale of the American comic book. One, Bob Kane, would profit from that legend for years to come, and the other would be all but forgotten. This is the legacy of the mark of Kane. City Lit Theatre brings a three-year world premiere of "The Four-Color Trilogy" to their stage. The Mark of Kane begins a three-year world premiere of “The Four-Color Trilogy,” highlighting major turning points in American comic book history.
The Birthday Party
by Harold Pinter
January 14 - February 26, 2023 (Previews Jan. 14 - 21)
A comedy of menace. Stanley may or may not play the piano, and today may or may not be his birthday, and he may or may not be hiding from someone in Meg's boarding house where he's lived for a year. But he's definitely made nervous by news that two new boarders are about to arrive, and she's definitely throwing him a party.
Aztec Human Sacrifice
Music & Lyrics by Kingsley Day
Book by Kingsley Day and Philip LaZebnik
May 5 - June 18, 2023 (Previews May 5 - 13)
It’s the night before the beginning of the Aztec empire’s new millennium, and the Chosen One – so named because he is to be sacrificed in order to make the sun rise next morning - has run off with the Emperor’s daughter. If he is not found, the sun will not rise and the world will end. By the writer of the legendary Chicago musical comedy Summer Stock Murder.
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