City Lights publishes an edition of Highlights  for each mainstage show. This dramaturg’s guide by Rebecca Wallace and Carol Diaz-Arrastía includes interviews, historical background, photos, and other resources to help audiences more fully immerse themselves in the world of a play. Because that’s a great place to linger.

2025-26 season
Ride the Cyclone by Brooke Maxwell & Jacob Richmond
anthropology by Lauren Gunderson
Dial M for Murder, adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher from the original by Frederick Knott
Running After Shadows by Vincent Terrell Durham
Over the River and Through the Woods by Joe DiPietro
Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors by Gordon Greenberg and Steve Rosen

2024-25 season
Head Over Heels by Sir Philip Sidney, Jeff Whitty and James Magruder
The Cake  by Bekah Brunstetter, May 15-June 8, 2025
The Mousetrap  by Agatha Christie, March 13-April 6, 2025
In Love and Warcraft  by Madhuri Shekar, Jan. 16, Feb-9, 2025
Truce: A Christmas Wish from the Great War  by Kit Wilder & Jeffrey Bracco, Nov. 21-Dec. 22, 2024
An Inspector Calls  by J.B. Priestley, Sept. 26-Oct. 20, 2024

2023-24 season
Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show, July 18-Aug. 25, 2024
Clyde’s  by Lynn Nottage, May 16-June 9, 2024
King Liz  by Fernanda Coppel, March 21-April 21, 2024
Nora: A Doll’s House  by Stef Smith, after Henrik Ibsen, Jan. 18-Feb. 18, 2024
Ken Ludwig’s The Game’s Afoot, Nov. 16-Dec. 17, 2023
Toxic  by Kit Wilder, Sept. 14-Oct. 15, 2023

2022-23 season
Kinky Boots  with book by Harvey Fierstein, music & lyrics by Cyndi Lauper; July 13-Aug. 20, 2023
The River Bride  by Marisela Treviño Orta; May 18- June 11, 2023
Blithe Spirit  by Noël Coward; March 23- April 23, 2023
Miss You Like Hell  by Quiara Alegría Hudes and Erin McKeown; Jan. 26- Feb. 26, 2023
The Thanksgiving Play  by Larissa Fasthorse; Nov. 19-Dec. 18, 2022
Every Brilliant Thing  by Duncan Macmillan, with Jonny Donahoe; Sept. 15-Oct. 16, 2022

2021-22 season
Fun Home  by Jeanine Tesori, Lisa Kron and Alison Bechdel; July 14-Aug. 21, 2022
Waiting for Next  by Jeffrey Lo, May 19-June 19, 2022
Vietgone  by Qui Nguyen, with original music by Shane Rettig, March 24-April 24, 2022
The Hollow  by Agatha Christie, Feb. 3-March 6, 2022
Native Gardens  by Karen Zacarías, Nov. 18-Dec. 19, 2021
Coded  by Kirsten Brandt, Sept. 16- Oct. 17, 2021.

2020-21 season
A Christmas Carol  (new solo adaptation by Mark Anderson Phillips), Dec. 15-Jan. 3, 2020-21

2019-20 season
Coded  by Kirsten Brandt, March 12-April 11, 2020
Stage Kiss  by Sarah Ruhl, Jan. 16-Feb. 16, 2020
The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley  by Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon, Nov. 14-Dec. 15, 2019
The Wolves  by Sarah DeLappe, Sept. 18- Oct 20, 2019

2018-19 season
Cabaret  by Masteroff, Van Druten, Isherwood, Kander & Ebb, July 18-Aug. 25, 2019
Silent Sky  by Lauren Gunderson, May 16-June 16, 2019
Eurydice  by Sarah Ruhl, March 14-April 14, 2019
Mothers and Sons  by Terrence McNally, Jan. 17-Feb. 17, 2019
Making God Laugh  by Sean Grennan, Nov. 15-Dec. 23, 2018
God of Carnage  by Yasmina Reza, translated by Christopher Hampton, Sept. 13-Oct. 14, 2018

2017-18 season
In the Heights, with music & lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda and book by Quiara Alegría Hudes; conceived by Lin-Manuel Miranda, July 12-Aug. 19, 2018
The Siegel  by Michael Mitnick, May 17-June 17, 2018
The Merchant of Venice  by William Shakespeare, March 22-April 22, 2018
Alabama Story  by Kenneth Jones, Jan. 18-Feb. 18, 2018
Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley  by Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon, Nov. 16-Dec. 17, 2017
Stupid Fucking Bird  by Aaron Posner, sort of adapted from The Seagull  by Anton Chekhov, Sept. 14-Oct. 15, 2017

2016-17 season
LIZZIE  by Steven Cheslik-DeMeyer, Tim Maner and Alan Stevens Hewitt, July 13-Aug. 20, 2017
Rapture, Blister, Burn  by Gina Gionfriddo, May 18-June 18, 2017
Frankenstein adapted by Kit Wilder, Mar. 23-Apr. 23, 2017
Ideation  by Aaron Loeb, Jan. 19-Feb. 19, 2017
Calendar Girls  by Tim Firth, based on the Miramax motion picture by Juliette Towhidi and Tim Firth, Nov. 17-Dec. 18, 2016
Other Desert Cities  by Jon Robin Baitz, Sept. 22-Oct. 23, 2016

2015-16 season
Green Day’s American Idiot  by Green Day, Billie Joe Armstrong and Michael Mayer, July 14-Aug. 21, 2016
I and You  by Lauren Gunderson, May 19-June 19, 2016
The Elephant Man  by Bernard Pomerance, March 17-April 17, 2016
Tigers Be Still  by Kim Rosenstock, Jan. 21-Feb. 21, 2016
Handle With Care  by Jason Odell Williams with Hebrew by Charlotte Cohn, Nov. 19-Dec. 20, 2015
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde  adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher from the novella Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, Sept. 17-Oct. 18, 2015

2014-15 season
West Side Story  by Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim, July 16-Aug. 23, 2015
Exit, Pursued by a Bear  by Lauren Gunderson, May 14-June 14, 2015
M. Butterfly  by David Henry Hwang, March 19-April 19, 2015
Build  by Michael Golamco, Jan. 22-Feb. 22, 2015
Truce: A Christmas Wish from the Great War  by Kit Wilder & Jeffrey Bracco, Nov. 20-Dec. 21, 2014
Art  by Yasmina Reza, Sept. 18-Oct. 19, 2014