Lantern Theater Company
Lantern Theater Company
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At St. Stephen's Theater
10th & Ludlow Streets, P.O. Box 53428
Philadelphia
PA
19105-3428
Office Phone:
215.829.9002
Box Office Phone:
215.829.0395
Fax:
215.829.1161
Email:
email@lanterntheater.org The Chekhov Festival
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November 5 - 7 Presented in conjunction with our production of Uncle Vanya, this special weekend celebrates the influential work of Russian playwright, short-story writer, and physician Anton Chekhov, considered one of the greatest writers in the history of world literature.
Friday, November 5
6:00pm
Between Heaven and Hell:
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The Anthony Lawton Festival
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December 3 - 19
This three-play festival celebrates Philadelphia actor/playwright Anthony Lawton's spiritual theater for a secular audience.
The Great Divorce
Based on the Novel by C.S. Lewis
Adapted and Performed by Anthony Lawton
December 3 - 19
A Midsummer Night's Dream
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March 10 - April 10 One of Shakespeare's most exuberant and effervescent comedies! Young lovers Hermia and Lysander, kept apart by strict Athenian law, escape to the woods where tyrannical parents can't find them – but mischief can. Elsewhere among the trees, the fairy king and queen are having a marital spat with disastrous consequences for one Nick Bottom.
Vigil
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May 19 - June 12 Witty, cheeky, and gratifyingly macabre, this black comedy from Canadian playwright Morris Panych ends the Lantern's 2010/11 season with a bang. Middle-aged curmudgeon Kemp receives a letter from his rich aunt, who writes him she is "old and dying"... or does it say "yodeling?" It's hard to tell – her handwriting isn't very good. But Kemp quits his job and crosses the country to ready her for death, beginning an outrageous series of missteps and misunderstandings that gives way to a surprising, poignant finish.
Happy Days
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September 24 - October 18, 2009 Since the Lantern's first-ever production of Beckett's Waiting for Godot in 1994, we've built a reputation for approaching major works in new ways. Whether you love the theater of the absurd or simply appreciate the Lantern's refreshingly direct approach to modern classics, you won't want to miss Happy Days, in which Beckett's groundbreaking, uniquely modern character struggles to maintain her irrational cheerfulness in the face of ridiculous difficulties.
Henry IV, Part I
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April 1 - May 2, 2010 If you enjoyed our darkly comic, Barrymore Award-winning Richard III, you'll love this gripping, ripping plot from Shakespeare's history canon. King Henry, having seized the throne of England from his tyrannical cousin, finds himself in a political hornet's nest. As trouble brews, he is horrified to see his own son and heir keeping company with thieves, drunkards, and whores. Witness the tug of war for the soul of young Prince Hal between his tortured, guilt-ridden father and Sir John Falstaff, a charming and insinuating rogue.
Scapin
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Philadelphia Premiere
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December 3, 2009 - January 3, 2010 Adaptors Bill Irwin (The Happiness Lecture) and Mark O'Donnell soak Molière's sharp-edged comedy in vaudevillian clownery! This offbeat re-imagining of the classic puts Molière's famous servant Scapin at the center of an inventive interaction between actors and puppets. Scapin is directed by Aaron Cromie, known as a performer, director, and puppeteer from projects such as The Foocy, The Comedy of Errors, Travels with My Aunt, and The Fantasticks.
