The Cake (2025)
“Luisa Sermol is a literal Broadway actor who finds every inch of bold nuance inside Della. Her understanding of how to set up payoffs with hilarity or heartache gives the show its powers. Her face is a canvas of expressive, enchanting elasticity that displays unbridled joy and profound loss.” –The Mercury News
Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show (2024)
“It takes mere seconds to know that this show is gonna slap… What makes this production such a scintillation is how fresh and alive it feels. Every classic number is a hit, with a riveting energy that shakes the old theater building down to the studs.” –The Mercury News
King Liz (2024)
“The City Lights Theater Company production is delectably smooth, with many fine moments harnessed together to craft a narrative offering plenty of poignant humor.” –The Mercury News
Vietgone (2022)
“City Lights has assembled an absolutely sizzling, crackerjack cast of five under the imaginative and insightful direction of Jeffrey Lo.” –Talkin’ Broadway
The Hollow (2022)
“Murder most malicious has transpired at City Lights Theater Company — and we couldn’t be more delighted about it.” –Content Magazine
Coded (2021)
“Critical in showing how women in gaming inspire by grabbing their own self-empowerment. No one will offer them any swords — they’ll just bring their own.” –The Mercury News
Digital shows during Covid
“City Lights did a heroic job of taking their stage to the littlest screen. They’ve kept San Jose alight.” –Metro
Stage Kiss (2020)
“The City Lights cast pulls it off with comic gusto. The comedy keeps building on itself, making some of those final scenes terribly funny, and also touching.” –The Mercury News
Eurydice (2019)
“How do you perform a play in English and American Sign Language simultaneously? Can that work? Yes.” -KQED
Silent Sky (2019)
“A luminous play, touching and stirring and funny in all the right places, and director Mark Anderson Phillips and the pitch-perfect cast bring out all those aspects beautifully.” –The Mercury News
