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Saturday, June 14: City Lights’ annual “Lights Up!” new-play festival and maker fair returns on Saturday, June 14. Featured plays this year: The Soulmate Play by Anthony Doan, directed by Jacob Yoder-Schrock; and Helicopter Typhoon Carabao! or To Survive an Apocalypse Now, written by Amanda L. Andrei and directed by Mark Anderson Phillips. The maker fair features pottery by Keenan Flagg, photo cards and hostess gifts by Lisa Mallette, and collage art by Rebecca Wallace.
Next mainstage show in our 2024-25 season: City Lights’ summer 2025 musical is Head Over Heels, a love-affirming tale set to the music of The Go-Go’s! Performances are July 17-Aug. 24, 2025. Press release, photos, show program and dramaturgy guide coming soon.
Our 2025-26 season:
Welcome to City Lights’ 2025–26 season, where humor, heart, and mystery light up the stage. We launch the season with Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors — a madcap twist on a legendary tale. Then, get ready for warmth, nostalgia, and a bit of well-meaning meddling in Over the River and Through the Woods. A deeply personal journey takes center stage in Running After Shadows, a moving solo play about the ghosts that follow us. Suspense ramps up with Dial M for Murder, a razor-sharp thriller packed with twists and turns. The season then ventures into technological territory in anthropology, an innovative new play delving into AI, memory, and the fragile threads of human connection. We wrap things up on a wildly inventive (and darkly hilarious) note with the TikTok musical favorite Ride the Cyclone.
Other resources:
2025-26 season press release
2024-25 season press release
Masks are recommended in the building, and required at select performances of each mainstage show. City Lights recommends but does not require the Covid vaccine and booster. We ask that if any patron is feeling unwell or has any concerning symptoms to please stay home. We’ll be happy to exchange tickets for another performance, free of charge. For more about City Lights’ Covid protocols, which may change at any time as the pandemic evolves, go to cltc.org/covid-protocols.
Photos and video from past shows
2024-25 season:
The Cake (photos)
The Mousetrap (photos)
In Love and Warcraft (photos)
In Love and Warcraft (video)
Truce: A Christmas Wish from the Great War (photos)
Truce: A Christmas Wish from the Great War (video)
An Inspector Calls (photos)
An Inspector Calls (video)
2023-24 season:
Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show (photos)
Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show (video)
King Liz (photos)
Nora: A Doll’s House (photos)
Nora: A Doll’s House (rehearsal video)
Ken Ludwig’s The Game’s Afoot (photos)
Toxic (video)
Toxic (photos)
2022-23 season:
Kinky Boots (photos)
The River Bride (photos)
Blithe Spirit (photos)
Miss You Like Hell (video)
Miss You Like Hell (photos)
The Thanksgiving Play
Every Brilliant Thing (video)
Every Brilliant Thing (photos)
2021-22 season:
Coded (video)
Coded (photos)
Native Gardens
The Hollow
Vietgone
Waiting for Next
Fun Home
The Solo Pieces: New digital plays from the BIPOC community
Lola Cooked Our Food (video)
2020-21 season:
A Christmas Carol (video)
2019-20 season:
The Wolves
The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley
Stage Kiss
Coded
2018-19 season:
God of Carnage
Making God Laugh
Mothers and Sons
Eurydice
Silent Sky
Cabaret
2017-18 season:
Stupid Fucking Bird
Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley
Alabama Story
The Merchant of Venice
The Siegel
In the Heights
2016-17 season:
Other Desert Cities
Calendar Girls
Ideation
Frankenstein
Rapture, Blister, Burn
LIZZIE (photos)
LIZZIE (video)
2015-16 season:
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Handle With Care
Tigers Be Still
The Elephant Man
I and You
Green Day’s American Idiot
2014-15 season:
Art
Truce: A Christmas Wish from the Great War
Build
M. Butterfly
Exit, Pursued by a Bear
West Side Story
2013-14 season:
Amadeus
The Language Archive
Monty Python’s SPAMALOT