PLEASE NOTE: Post-Performance Discussion on May 1: Audience members are invited to stay and ask questions of the actors and director.

“WICKEDLY WITTY … It is one H--L OF A GOOD SHOW! Lewis’ topsy-turvy exercises in inverted moral theology were made to be played with lip-smacking relish. McLean’s plummy, supercilious bass-baritone voice is IDEALLY SUITED to Screwtape … DELIGHTFULLY REPULSIVE.”
Terry Teachout, The Wall Street Journal

“PURE GENIUS ... Full of crackling good prose ... McLean DOMINATES the stage ... he is both CHARMING and GRUESOME, which is exactly how theatergoers who are familiar with the book would want him to be ... An OUTSTANDING piece of work.
John J. Miller, National Review

When first published in 1942, The Screwtape Letters brought immediate fame to a little known Oxford don whose field of study was medieval English literature. Over the past sixty years its wit and wisdom have made it one of C. S. Lewis' most widely read and influential works.

After securing the rights from the estate of C. S. Lewis to adapt this best selling classic into a theatrical production, The Screwtape Letters opened at Theatre 315 in NYC for a limited three week run. Due to popular demand it ran for eleven sold-out weeks!

Later, a larger, more dynamic theatrical production ran for 12 sold-out weeks at the historic Theatre at St. Clement’s on W. 46th Street in New York to rave reviews from audiences and critics alike.

Now the theatrical event that played for 23 sold-out weeks in New York City will transfer to the beautiful Lansburgh Theatre in downtown Washington, D.C. Performances begin April 17th.

Set in a strikingly eerie, elegant and austere office in Hell, the play follows an urbane senior devil, Screwtape, who confidently dictates crackling good prose to his secretary, Toadpipe. The mission: To instruct a novice demon, Wormwood, on the fine art of tempting a young Christian away from “the Enemy” (Screwtape’s name for God) and safely down to the ravenous “our father below.”

Beloved by both audiences and critics alike, The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis offers a funny, thought-provoking and challenging theatrical experience that may change the way you think about the influence of angels and demons in your every day life.

Presented by Fellowship for the Performing Arts

Group rates available.

10 percent off for groups of ten to nineteen people.
15 percent off for groups of twenty or more people.

For further details or to order, please call the box office: 202.547.1122, option 1.

Student Rush tickets available on the day of performances for $20. Valid student ID required.