November 5, 2012
How do you know a play is going to be a hit? When its run is extended before the show even opens. Which means that Lantern Theater’s production of David Ives The Liar is destined for hitdom, as early demand for tickets caused the play’s run to be extended well in advance of its November [...]
Read more»September 28, 2012
Fall in Philadelphia means locally designed haute fashion, crunchy local apples and bright orange pumpkins, vivid foliage, crisp craft beer, the re-enlivening of the Linc, restaurant menu refreshes, fall street festivals and — last but not least — the kick-off of a brand new theater season. With the successful run of another Philadelphia Live Arts/Fringe [...]
Read more»August 30, 2012
Rediscover the smash hit which last year became the best-selling production in the entire history of Lantern Theater Company as the same cast and design team resurrects New Jerusalem. The show tells the tale of the Inquisition’s bearing down on a small Jewish community in Portugal, who decide to flee to find peace in seemingly [...]
Read more»May 24, 2012
This summer, Lantern Theater Company takes audiences on a trip to The Island. Complete with hot sun on sand by day and waves singing lullabies into windows at night, South Africa’s Robben Island nevertheless carries its cast nightmarishly far from insular bliss. Set in the same political prison that housed Nelson Mandela, The Island centers [...]
Read more»March 8, 2012
From now through April 8, Lantern Theater Company presents a production of Romeo and Juliet which is daringly original – if only because it actually sticks to the original play. Director Charles McMahon purposefully avoids the modern inclination to update and reinvent Shakespeare’s text by digging more deeply into the poetry of the play itself. [...]
Read more»December 15, 2011
Mix some good, old-fashioned man-to-man (and man-to-woman) brawling, rapid-fire insults and slapstick comedy, and you’ll generally end up with the makings of a Marx Brothers movie. But for British playwright Noël Coward, these same elements work just as well in portraying true love — not the cleaned-up, fairy tale version, but the witty, nitty-gritty carousel [...]
Read more»October 13, 2011
When you read the name Baruch de Spinoza, it might bring back long-ago college nightmares of the one question on your philosophy final that you just couldn’t answer. But when you’re sitting in the plush, red seats of St. Stephen’s Theater to see the Lantern Theater Company production of New Jerusalem, The Interrogation of Baruch [...]
Read more»May 27, 2011
What better way for the Lantern Theater Company to conclude its 2010-2011 season than with the hilariously amusing, black comedy Vigil from Canadian playwright Morris Panych? Running now through June 12, Vigil takes place in the familiar setting of a Philadelphia rowhome. A series of outrageous and amusing misunderstandings lead to an unexpected finish as [...]
Read more»June 1, 2010
Just hearing Anthony Lawton recite a selection of the correspondences that make up C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters would make for a plenty interesting night. His delivery and presence only enhance Lewis’ already thought-provoking musings on the nature of man, the merits of Heaven and Hell, and a bunch of other themes that sound way [...]
Read more»May 3, 2010
You almost missed your chance to catch the Lantern Theater Company’s annual Shakespeare show. The final curtain for Henry IV was supposed to drop last week. Luckily for you Shakespeare-loving-types, the Lantern has extended the run through Sunday, May 9th. Directed by Charles McMahon and starring Allen Radway, Peter Pryor, and a number of other [...]
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