City Lit hosts a fall gala each year, featuring live performances, a raffle, and a buffet, to help sponsor another year of bringing literature to life!

City Lit hosts an annual Spring Tea Fundraiser to help bring another season of literature to life each year!

City Lit celebrates Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas with a concert reading of holiday-related literature adapted for the stage!

City Lit hosts an annual Art of Adaptation Festival of stage adaptations of non-dramatic literature each summer!

Every April from 2011 through 2015, City Lit will produce a show that commemorates the American Civil War in honor of the Sesquicentennial.

City Lit Theater and the American Library Association have worked together for the past five years to present readings from each year’s list of most frequently challenged books. Banned Books Week has been held during the last week of September since 1982.