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Lantern Theater Company to Continue 30th Anniversary Season With CRUMBS FROM THE TABLE OF JOY By Lynn Nottage


by Chloe Rabinowitz - November 03, 2023

Lantern Theater Company will continue its 30th anniversary season with two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Lynn Nottage's dramatic gem, Crumbs from the Table of Joy. Learn how to purchase tickets!...

ETERNAL LIFE PART 1 At The Wilma Theater Now Streaming


by A.A. Cristi - May 01, 2023

Digital theater pioneer the Wilma Theater is offering a streaming version of its onstage production ETERNAL LIFE PART 1, which was written by Nathan Alan Davis and directed by Morgan Green, who directed the world premiere digital production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning FAT HAM. The production will ...

Photos: First Look at Inis Nua Theatre Company's MEET ME AT DAWN


by Blair Ingenthron - February 19, 2023

Inis Nua Theatre Company is premiering the first Mainstage production of their 19th season with the American premiere of Meet Me at Dawn, written by Scottish playwright Zinnie Harris. Meet Me at Dawn will be directed by Sam Tower and stars Hannah Gold and Jackie Soro. The show runs until March 5, 20...

Photos: First Look at FAIRVIEW Directed by Pulitzer Prize Winner James Ijames - Now Extended at The Wilma Theater


by Chloe Rabinowitz - June 08, 2022

The Wilma Theater announced today a one-week extension for Fairview, the groundbreaking 2019 Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Jackie Sibblies Drury, directed by Pulitzer Prize winner James Ijames. Originally set to close on Saturday June 18, the production will now conclude its run on Sunday June 26. ...

Past Shows

My Mama and the Full-Scale Invasion


Sasha’s 82-year-old mother has lived in Kyiv her whole life. When Russia invades Ukraine in 2022, Sasha copes with her fears by imagining her mother ...

10 Days in a Madhouse
10 Days in a Madhouse
9/21 - 9/30/2023


Is she insane? Or just pretending? This psychological drama follows trailblazing reporter Nellie Bly through her internment at Blackwell's Asylum, exposing, as Bly did, notions ...

Twelfth Night
Twelfth Night
6/6 - 6/25/2023


BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE DIRECTED BY YURY URNOV June 6–25, 2023 The Wilma boldly reimagines Shakespeare’s beloved romantic comedy, set on a beach in the summertime. ...


Theatre Horizon: Jaylene Clark Owens, Hollis Heath, Janelle Heatley, Chyann Sapp....

Describe the Night
1/28 - 2/16/2020


Set in Russia over the course of 90 years, this thrilling and epic new play by Rajiv Joseph traces the stories of seven men and ...


Set in Russia over the course of 90 years, this thrilling and epic new play by Rajiv Joseph traces the stories of seven men and ...

Dance Nation
10/22 - 11/10/2019


Somewhere in America, an army of pre-teen competitive dancers plots to take over the world. And if their new routine is good enough, they’ll claw ...


adapt: Rosa Barba, Blanka Zizka from Etel Adnan; music: Alex Dowling....

Mr. Burns, a post-electric play
10/23 - 11/11/2018


What will endure when the cataclysm arrives – when the grid fails, society crumbles, and we’re faced with the task of rebuilding? Anne Washburn’s imaginative ...

Passing Strange
1/10 - 2/18/2018


Stew ; book: Stew ; lyrics: Stew ; music: Stew , Heidi Rodewald; dir: Tea Alagic. The Wilma Theater:...

Blood Wedding
10/25 - 11/19/2017


In Tanya Ronder’s spare, yet strikingly beautiful modern translation Lorca’s Blood Wedding finds a refreshing new and compelling poetic world while retaining its sumptuous language ...

Adapt!
3/22 - 4/22/2017


Blanka Zizka; music: Mariana Sadovska; dir: Blanka Zizka....

Constellations
1/11 - 2/5/2017


This spellbinding, romantic journey begins with a simple encounter between a man and a woman. But what happens next defies the boundaries of the world ...

Seuls
11/29 - 12/11/2016


Wajdi Mouawad; dir: Wajdi Mouawad....

Seuls
11/29 - 12/11/2016


Wajdi Mouawad; dir: Wajdi Mouawad....

When the Rain Stops Falling
10/12 - 11/6/2016


Andrew Bovell; dir: Blanka Zizka....

When the Rain Stops Falling
10/12 - 11/6/2016


Andrew Bovell; dir: Blanka Zizka....

Notes of a Native Song
9/5 - 9/11/2016


Stew , Heidi Rodewald....

Notes of a Native Song
9/5 - 9/11/2016


Stew , Heidi Rodewald....

The Christians
5/4 - 5/29/2016


Ten years ago, Pastor Paul's church was a modest storefront. Now it houses thousands, with a coffee shop in the lobby and a baptismal font ...

An Octoroon
3/16 - 4/10/2016


Branden Jacobs-Jenkins; dir: Joanna Settle....

The Hard Problem
1/6 - 2/6/2016


Tom Stoppard; dir: Blanka Zizka....

Antigone
10/7 - 11/8/2015


After a case of sibling rivalry culminates in civil war, King Creon of Thebes forbids anyone from burying the traitor who started it in this ...


Acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead is the fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told from the worm's-eye view of ...

Hamlet
3/25 - 4/19/2015


William Shakespeare; dir: Blanka Zizka....

The Body of an American
1/7 - 2/1/2015


Dan O?Brien; dir: Michael John Garc...


Paula Vogel....

Cherokee
1/8 - 2/5/2014


Lisa D?Amour....

The Convert
10/9 - 11/10/2013


Danai Gurira....

Bootycandy
5/15 - 6/16/2013


The Wilma Theater: - Robert O'Hara....

Under the Whaleback
3/6 - 4/7/2013


The Wilma Theater: - Richard Bean....

Assistance
1/2 - 2/3/2013


The Wilma Theater: - Leslye Headland....


The most honored play in a generation concludes the Wilma’s 2011/2012 Season – and then returns for the 20th Anniversary of Part Two: Perestroika to ...

Body Awareness
1/4 - 2/5/2012


Director Anne Kauffman thrilled Wilma audiences in 2010 with the smash hit Becky Shaw, winning a Barrymore for Best Director. She returns to Philadelphia next ...

Videos


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Lantern Theater Company (5/16 - 6/16)

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The 39 Steps in Philadelphia The 39 Steps
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Matt Donnelly ♦ The Mind Noodler in Philadelphia Matt Donnelly ♦ The Mind Noodler
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Mark Zacharia ♦ Mystifying Magic & Mentalism in Philadelphia Mark Zacharia ♦ Mystifying Magic & Mentalism
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The Christmas Candy Caper in Philadelphia The Christmas Candy Caper
Bird-in-Hand Stage (11/1 - 12/28)
She Kills Monsters in Philadelphia She Kills Monsters
Town and Country Players (5/31 - 6/15)
PHOTOS
Carl Mercurio ♦ Magic At It's Best in Philadelphia Carl Mercurio ♦ Magic At It's Best
Smoke & Mirrors Magic Theater (7/20 - 7/20)
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