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Aphrodisiac

Presented by City Lights Theater Company at City Lights Theater

January 19-February 19, 2012

Congressman Dan Ferris is being questioned about the disappearance of his intern, Ilona Waxman. Does this sound awkward? Imagine if he were your dad! Loosely based on actual events, this perplexing and playful study of power-politics throws expectations to the wind and pits perception against reality as a brother and sister search for the truth about their father, who has fallen under suspicion of closed-door sexual improprieties--and worse. And if that weren’t enough, things really

Hamlet - City Lights Theater Company

Presented by City Lights Theater Company at City Lights Theater

March 15-April 15, 2012

One of the greatest plays by one of the world's greatest playwright, Hamlet pits the white-hot rebellion of youth against the stale propriety of expectation and tradition. With his father the King of Demark newly dead, and his mother the Queen newly married to his father's usurping brother, young prince Hamlet is hurtled down a course of murder, discovery, and vengeance that strips him of love, of family, and of his own fragile identity. City Lights' modern-day Hamlet is a

Santaland Diaries

Presented by City Lights Theater Company at City Lights Theater

November 17-December 18, 2011

After nine years, this show is back by popular demand! This holiday season, City Lights reprises one of the funniest and most outrageous portraits of holiday cynicism ever written. In this unlikely holiday classic, by one of America’s supreme satirists, an out-of-work slacker finds temporary employment as a Macy’s holiday elf during the holiday crunch. Enduring humiliation and succumbing to battle-weary bitterness, our hero shares his observations of ill-mannered parents,

SoleJive - Music at City Lights

Presented by City Lights Theater Company at City Lights Theater

September 25, 2011

SoleJive is an eight-piece band that is as diverse musically, as it is ethnically. Such diversity is both representative of hometown SJ, as well as testament to how music transcends difference and finds common relation. Musically, by blending elements of Jazz, Ska, Hip Hop, and Funk, the group weaves in and out of genres. The group believes that “there is only good music and bad music, with the former being confined by labels.”

August, Osage County

Presented by City Lights Theater Company at City Lights Theater

September 22-October 23, 2011

One of the most critically acclaimed plays in recent history, this Pulitzer Prize-winning modern masterpiece chronicles an American family at its resilient best – and dysfunctional worst. When the patriarch of the Weston clan disappears one hot August night, the family reunites at the Oklahoma homestead, where three generations of suspicions are aired and dark secrets are revealed. Weaving epic tragedy with scathing black comedy, August is a bracing and uncompromising portrait

Pastoral Paranoia - Staged Reading, New Play Series

Presented by City Lights Theater Company at City Lights Theater

August 9, 2011

In America, where farm life has collapsed and drugs have filled the void, Dickie McDonald’s rural drug empire is threatened when his older brother is forced out of a likewise collapsing California and returns home to vie for power in the family. Soon, all except the dotty mother and father are aligned against Dickie, but Dickie who may seem somewhat “slow” is no fool. Conflict ensues.

City Lights has a strong commitment to developing new, offbeat theater pieces. Its

Nine

Presented by City Lights Theater Company at City Lights Theater

July 21-August 28, 2011

Based on Federico Fellini's semi-autobiographical film 8 1/2, the musical Nine is a sensual exploration of tangled relationships and romantic fantasies. The renowned Italian film director Guido Contini has just celebrated his 40th birthday and is facing a mid-life crisis: the various women who influence his life have become his ultimate obsession. In due course, the overwhelm his art, his dreams, and his future as he strivs to create his greatest film to date.