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LANTERN THEATER COMPANY

923 Ludlow Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107
215-829-0395

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About the Theatre

The mission of Lantern Theater Company is to produce plays that investigate and illuminate what is essential in the human spirit and the spirit of the times. We seek to be a vibrant, contributing member of our community, exposing audiences to great theater, inviting participation in dialogue and discussion, and engaging audience members about artistic and social issues. We will expand our role in Philadelphia through broader and deeper engagement with our artists, our audience, and our community. Our education programs will continue to draw from our expertise in dramatic and literary texts and in theatrical language and techniques to enrich learning in the classroom and beyond.


 Keith Hamilton Cobb...


Lantern Theater Company presents a regional premiere of the award-winning drama, The Wanderers, by Anna Ziegler, directed by Jesse Bernstein. The play explores the intricate ...


The Lantern Theater Company presents the regional premiere of a new drama in its 2024/25 season, featuring a talented ensemble cast under the direction of ...


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Theatre Ariel Returns With Philadelphia Premiere Of Maya Arad Yasur's AMSTERDAM in November


by Blair Ingenthron - October 27, 2024

This November, Theatre Ariel will produce its first Mainstage production since 2009 with the Philadelphia premiere of Amsterdam, by award-winning Israeli playwright Maa Arad Yasur, translated by Eran Edry. ...

Lantern Theater Company Launches 2024/25 Season With THE WANDERERS


by Stephi Wild - September 04, 2024

 Lantern Theater Company will launch its 2024/25 season with the regional premiere of The Wanderers, a funny, moving, and thoughtful drama by award-winning playwright Anna Ziegler. ...

Lantern Theater Company Presents the Philadelphia Premiere Of Anna Ziegler's THE WANDERERS


by A.A. Cristi - September 03, 2024

Lantern Theater Company has announced the regional premiere of THE WANDERERS by Anna Ziegler, directed by Jesse Bernstein, ...

Interact Theatre Company Presents THE CLIMB A World Premiere Production


by A.A. Cristi - April 29, 2024

To kick off summer, InterAct Theatre Company will present THE CLIMB by By C.A. Johnson....

Theatre Ariel to Present the Philadelphia Premiere of AMSTERDAM This November


by A.A. Cristi - April 25, 2024

Theatre Ariel will return to producing fully-staged performances this fall with a Philadelphia Premiere....

Lantern Theater Company Closes 30th Anniversary Season with THE COMEDY OF ERRORS


by Stephi Wild - April 18, 2024

 Lantern Theater Company will close its 30th anniversary season with The Comedy of Errors, part of the company’s ongoing commitment to produce the timeless stories of William Shakespeare for both the general public and local school students. ...

THE WANDERERS, THE 39 STEPS & More Set for Lantern Theater Company 2024/25 Season


by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 13, 2024

Lantern Theater Company has revealed its upcoming 2024/25 season, which will mark the company’s 31st year. See the full lineup and learn how to purchase tickets!...

THE LAST YIDDISH SPEAKER Comes to Philadelphia This Month


by Stephi Wild - March 05, 2024

What if the January 6, 2021 insurrection was successful? The Last Yiddish Speaker by Deborah Zoe Laufer imagines this alternate reality where a white supremacist regime has come into power. Learn more about the play here!...

Center City District Offers Exclusive Arts & Culture Promotional Discounts For A Limited Time


by A.A. Cristi - February 08, 2024

Save during Center City on Stage! Center City District offers exclusive promotional discounts on tickets to performances hosted across Center City. Buy one, get one half-off tickets available for a limited time. Participating partners include The Philadelphia Orchestra, Opera Philadelphia, Philadelp...

Lantern Theater Company to Continue 30th Anniversary Season With FAITH HEALER By Brian Friel


by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 16, 2024

Lantern Theater Company continues its 30th anniversary season with Brian Friel's masterpiece play, Faith Healer. Directed by Peter DeLaurier and featuring Anthony Lawton, Ian Merrill Peakes, and Geneviève Perrier, Faith Healer explores memory, belief, and the stories we tell ourselves....

Past Shows

The Wanderers
The Wanderers
9/5 - 10/6/2024


"Absorbing, twisty, and thoughtful... the finest play of the year!" –The Wall Street Journal Two couples – Esther and Schmuli, Abe and Sophie – seem ...
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 Anna Ziegler...

William Shakespeare's THE COMEDY OF ERRORS


Join us for Shakespeare's unrivaled comedy of mistaken identities, twins separated at birth, and love lost and won.
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Comedy

FAITH HEALER
FAITH HEALER
2/1 - 3/3/2024


From the rich imagination of the great Irish playwright Brian Friel, Faith Healer is a deep dive into the psyche of an inspired performer – ...
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Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol


In this wonderfully clear and direct telling of Charles Dickens' beloved novella, acclaimed playwright and actor Anthony Lawton brings the story vividly to life as ...
Holiday Show

Crumbs from the Table of Joy
Crumbs from the Table of Joy
11/9 - 12/17/2023


This dramatic gem from two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Lynn Nottage gently reveals the funny and touching struggles of a family trying to make a fresh start.
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Set against the social politics of the 1950s, this charming, funny, and moving play follows 17-year-old Ernestine Crump as she adjusts to life after the ...

Molière's TARTUFFE
Molière's TARTUFFE
9/7 - 10/8/2023


Prim and devout Orgon invites Tartuffe, a charlatan par excellence, into his bourgeois household, laying the scene for equal parts domestic disruption and social outrage. ...
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The story takes place in the home of the wealthy Orgon, where Tartuffe—a fraud and a pious imposter—has insinuated himself. He succeeds magnificently in winning ...

William Shakespeare's TWELFTH NIGHT


As Shakespeare's most fascinating comic heroine, Viola turns personal tragedy and loss into a life-changing experience for herself and those she comes to love. Yes, ...
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The Lifespan of a Fact
The Lifespan of a Fact
2/2 - 3/5/2023


THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT pits a famous writer, a magazine editor, and a lowly fact checker against one another in a chaotic battle over ...
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Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol


"Electrifying!" –THE WALL STREET JOURNAL "A 95-minute masterpiece. Brilliantly performed and staged." –THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER In this wonderfully clear and direct telling of Charles Dickens' ...

THE ROYALE
THE ROYALE
11/10 - 12/11/2022


Set in the early 1900s, THE ROYALE takes inspiration from the life of Jack Johnson, the first African American heavyweight world boxing champion. Ramirez's riveting ...

The Lifespan of a Fact
9/8 - 10/9/2022


The Lifespan of a Fact is a play that explores the often messy intersection of truth and storytelling. It centers around John D'Agata, a magazine ...

The Royale
9/8 - 10/9/2022


Travesties
Travesties
9/8 - 10/9/2022


Zurich, 1917. In Tom Stoppard's Tony Award-winning comic masterpiece, obscure British diplomat Henry Carr and Dadaist Tristan Tzara are in love with Cecily and Gwendolen, ...

Fabulation, or The Re-Education of Undine


Undine has it all success, love, and a fabulous wardrobe. When her life begins to unravel in one hilarious reversal after another, she is forced ...

Travesties
5/19 - 6/19/2022


The second of two plays looking back at 100 years ago, Travesties is written by one of the greatest playwrights of the 20th Century. A ...

A Man for All Seasons
A Man for All Seasons
3/10 - 4/9/2022


When Henry VIII puts aside Queen Catherine, he fears opposition from Sir Thomas More, his own Lord Chancellor, even more than from the Pope. A ...

Me and the Devil
Me and the Devil
9/9 - 2/27/2022


A World Premiere by Steve H. Broadnax III and Charles Dumas / Directed by Steve H. Broadnax III / Have you ever wanted something so ...

The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens & Count Leo Tolstoy: Discord


Digital Premiere | By Scott Carter | Directed by Armina LaManna | A Founding Father, a Victorian literary celebrity, and a Russian aristocrat/anarchist clash in ...

Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol (DIGITAL)


In this professionally filmed and edited version of Charles Dickens' beloved novella, acclaimed actor and playwright Anthony Lawton brings the story boldly to life with ...

Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol (LIVE)


We are thrilled to welcome back audiences with this wonderfully clear and direct telling of Charles Dickens' novella, in which acclaimed actor and playwright Anthony ...

The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens & Count Leo Tolstoy: Discord


A Founding Father, a Victorian literary celebrity, and a Russian aristocrat/anarchist clash in this provocative comedy that sets three of the world's greatest thinkers against ...

The Plague
The Plague
10/7 - 11/21/2021


Infection, quarantine, panic, and closed borders are invoked in this sharp adaptation of Camus' masterful novel La Peste, originally written following World War II to ...

Plays from the Lantern Archives: CORIOLANUS


Famine threatens Rome, and the people's hunger swells to an appetite for political change. A war hero from a powerful family, Coriolanus seems destined to ...

Intimate Apparel
5/13 - 6/6/2021


Lantern Theater Company Lynn Nottage...

Plays from the Lantern Archives: THE TEMPEST


With poetry that brings the roiling sea to heel, THE TEMPEST examines what happens when one ruler is exiled, his successor washed up on shore, ...

From the Lantern Archives: MEASURE FOR MEASURE


When the power of the State is put in the service of one man's lust, Shakespeare creates one of his greatest heroines to combat the ...

From the Lantern Archives: THE CRAFTSMAN


From the ashes of World War II, Dutch patriots discover that one of their own a rich and reputable art dealer has sold rare Vermeer ...

Molly Sweeney
Molly Sweeney
1/15 - 3/7/2021


In this New York Drama Critics' Circle Award-winning play, Molly Sweeney leads a full and productive life as a woman with blindness. But her husband ...

Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol


STREAMING TO YOU AT HOME December 4 - 27, 2020 "A 95-MINUTE MASTERPIECE. BRILLIANTLY PERFORMED." -The Philadelphia Inquirer In this wonderfully clear and direct telling ...


Lantern Theater Company Lynn Nottage...

Molly Sweeney
11/16 - 11/29/2020


Lantern Theater Company Brian Friel...

The Vertical Hour
1/9 - 2/16/2020


Mainstage: The Vertical Hour...

The Last Match
11/7 - 12/8/2019


Anna Ziegler Lantern Theater Company...


Bertolt Brecht; dir: Charles McMahon....

Minors: A New Musical
5/23 - 6/30/2019


Mainstage: book: Kittson O'Neill; lyrics: Robert Kaplowitz, Kittson O'Neill; music: Robert Kaplowitz; dir: Matthew Decker....

Measure for Measure
3/14 - 4/21/2019


“Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.” Shakespeare’s black comedy tingles with intrigue in this story of love, lust, and politics. A full ...

Betrayal
1/10 - 2/17/2019


Mainstage: Harold Pinter; dir: Kathryn MacMillan....

The Heir Apparent
11/8 - 12/16/2018


adapt: David Ives from Jean-Fran?ois Regnard; dir: M. Craig Getting....

Hapgood
9/6 - 10/14/2018


Tom Stoppard; dir: Peter DeLaurier....

The Tempest
3/15 - 4/22/2018


There could scarcely be a more provocative start to the season—or a more vivid way to experience Shakespeare’s beloved final play. Unique staging that transports ...

Copenhagen
1/11 - 2/11/2018


Michael Frayn; dir: Kittson O'Neill. Mainstage:...

Red Velvet
9/7 - 10/8/2017


The most remarkable story of Ira Aldridge, gentleman, actor, star of the London West End stage. In his lifetime, Aldridge played the most coveted of ...

Coriolanus
3/9 - 4/16/2017


William Shakespeare; dir: Charles McMahon. Mainstage Theater:...

Informed Consent
1/12 - 2/12/2017


A drama about one woman's quest to answer the mysteries of science and her own life, inspired by a landmark court case between one of ...

An Iliad
11/10 - 12/11/2016


On a bare stage, a storyteller emerges from the back of the theatre to re-tell The Iliad, one of the oldest stories in Western civilization. ...

An Iliad
11/10 - 12/11/2016


On a bare stage, a storyteller emerges from the back of the theatre to re-tell The Iliad, one of the oldest stories in Western civilization. ...

Mrs. Warren's Profession
9/8 - 10/16/2016


5112 Lankershim: - George Bernard Shaw; dir: Robin Larsen....

Mrs. Warren's Profession
9/8 - 10/16/2016


5112 Lankershim: - George Bernard Shaw; dir: Robin Larsen....

36 Views
5/26 - 6/26/2016


Naomi Iizuka; dir: Peter DeLaurier....

As You Like It
3/10 - 4/17/2016


An idyllic Forest of Arden provides the lush backdrop for Shakespeare's glorious romantic comedy of courtiers, clowns, philosophers and provincials—all bewitched by the trials and ...

Oscar Wilde: From the Depths
1/14 - 2/14/2016


Charles McMahon; dir: M. Craig Getting....


Glen Berger; dir: Kathryn MacMillan....

Photograph 51
9/10 - 10/11/2015


Anna Ziegler; dir: Kathryn MacMillan....


adapt: Steven Canny, John Nicholson; dir: Matt Pfeiffer....

The Taming of the Shrew
3/19 - 4/26/2015


William Shakespeare; dir: Charles McMahon....

Doubt: A Parable
1/15 - 2/15/2015


In this brilliant and powerful drama, Sister Aloysius, a Bronx school principal, takes matters into her own hands when she suspects the young Father Flynn ...

The Train Driver
4/10 - 5/4/2014


Athol Fugard; dir: Matt Pfeiffer....

Julius Caesar
2/6 - 3/16/2014


St. Stephen's Theater: William Shakespeare; dir: Charles McMahon....


St. Stephen's Theater: adapt: Charles McMahon, Sebastienne Mundheim from Dylan Thomas....

Emma
9/19 - 10/27/2013


Jane Austen's adored heroine gets the musical treatment in Emma from acclaimed composer and lyricist Paul Gordon (Daddy Long Legs, Jane Eyre). For centuries, Emma ...


St. Stephen's Theater:...

Heroes
5/16 - 6/9/2013


Three aging WWI French army veterans, a very different "band of brothers," muse on life, the past and what is over the next hill as ...

Henry V
3/14 - 4/14/2013


St. Stephen's Theater: - William Shakespeare; dir: Charles McMahon....


St. Stephen's Theater: -...

The Beauty Queen of Leenane
1/10 - 2/3/2013


St. Stephen's Theater: - Martin McDonagh; dir: Kathryn MacMillan....

The Island
5/17 - 6/10/2012

The Island
The Island
5/17 - 6/10/2012


The Island is Robben Island, South Africa's notorious prison, where John and Winston are political prisoners and cellmates. After absurdly grueling days laboring under the ...

Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet
3/1 - 4/1/2012


Romeo and Juliet is beloved all over the world for the tragic romance of its star-crossed lovers. But it is the story, too, of an ...

The Great Divorce
The Great Divorce
2/7 - 2/12/2012


C.S. Lewis' own favorite among his works, The Great Divorce tells the satiric and comic tale of hapless professor Clive and the motley band of ...

Private Lives
Private Lives
12/8 - 12/31/2011


This holiday season, the Lantern serves up Noël Coward's champagne cocktail of a comedy. Amanda and Elyot, once a glamorous and tempestuous couple, haven't seen ...

New Jerusalem, The Interrogation of Baruch de Spinoza at Talmud Torah Congregation: Amsterdam, July 27, 1656


As the Inquisition bears down on them, a small Jewish community flees Portugal to find a tenuous peace in seemingly liberal Amsterdam. But Spinoza, a ...

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