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Lantern Theater Company will open its 2012/13 season with a pair of plays by David Ives: The Liar, an adaptation of the French comedy classic by Pierre Corneille, and a limited return engagement of New Jerusalem, The Interrogation of Baruch de Spinoza at Talmud Torah Congregation: Amsterdam, July 27, 1656, which last fall played to sold out houses and was extended twice to meet demand, quickly becoming the best-selling production in the Lantern's history.

Tickets are now on sale for the 16th annual Philly Fringe, which runs in conjunction with the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival from September 7 - 22.

The Lantern Theater Company has just announced its 2012/13 Season which includes five shows and runs from September 4, 2012-June 9, 2013.

Now in the midst of a record-breaking year, Lantern Theater Company announces the productions scheduled for its 2012/13 season. The Lantern opens its 19th season with a remount of David Ives' New Jerusalem, The Interrogation of Baruch de Spinoza at Talmud Torah Congregation: Amsterdam, July 27, 1656, the best-selling play in the company's history and featuring the original cast and creative team from the original 2011 production. This limited return engagement is followed by the Philadelphia premiere of The Liar, also by Ives, a sophisticated comedy of lies and love adapted from the French play by Pierre Corneille. Mid-season, the Lantern completes Martin McDonagh's Leenane Trilogy (A Skull in Connemara, The Lonesome West) with the darkly comic The Beauty Queen of Leenane. Lantern Associate Artistic Director Kathryn MacMillan will direct both The Liar and The Beauty Queen of Leenane. In the spring, Lantern Artistic Director Charles McMahon directs Henry V, William Shakespeare's epic journey through royal courts and battlefields. The season concludes with Heroes, a playful, bawdy, and heartbreakingly funny comedy by Tom Stoppard, adapted from Gerald Sibleyras' Le Vent De Peupliers and directed by Lantern affiliated artist M. Craig Getting.

On the heels of an enthusiastic Philadelphia reception for New Jerusalem, The Interrogation of Baruch de Spinoza at Talmud Torah Congregation: Amsterdam, July 27, 1656, Lantern Theater Company has announced an encore limited engagement in the Fall of 2012, directed by the Lantern's Artistic Director, Charles McMahon. This revival will include the original cast and creative team of the critically acclaimed production that opened the Lantern's 2011/12 season.

Lantern Theater Company announces a second extension of New Jerusalem, The Interrogation of Baruch de Spinoza at Talmud Torah Congregation: Amsterdam, July 27, 1656.

Due to high demand, Lantern Theater Company announces a one-week extension for the Philadelphia premiere of New Jerusalem, The Interrogation of Baruch de Spinoza at Talmud Torah Congregation: Amsterdam, July 27, 1656 by award-winning playwright David Ives.

Due to high demand, Lantern Theater Company announces a one-week extension for the Philadelphia premiere of New Jerusalem, The Interrogation of Baruch de Spinoza at Talmud Torah Congregation: Amsterdam, July 27, 1656 by award-winning playwright David Ives.

Lantern Theater Company opens its 2011/12 season with the Philadelphia premiere of David Ives' award-winning New Jerusalem, The Interrogation of Baruch de Spinoza at Talmud Torah Congregation: Amsterdam, July 27, 1656.

Celebrating its 18th anniversary season in 2011/12, Lantern Theater Company announces a slate of plays and events that illustrate the company's ongoing commitment to celebrating the best in classic and contemporary playwriting.

Lantern Theater Company opens its 2011/12 season with the Philadelphia premiere of David Ives' award-winning New Jerusalem, The Interrogation of Baruch de Spinoza at Talmud Torah Congregation: Amsterdam, July 27, 1656.

Celebrating its 18th anniversary season in 2011/12, Lantern Theater Company announces a slate of plays and events that illustrate the company's ongoing commitment to celebrating the best in classic and contemporary playwriting.

The Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia announces War Stories MixTix - our third installment of theme-based theatre packages aimed at giving audiences the power of choice.

The Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia announces War Stories MixTix - our third installment of theme-based theatre packages aimed at giving audiences the power of choice.

Baltimore Shakespeare Festival (BSF) stages Richard III, William Shakespeare's tale of political ambition taken to extreme, this holiday season on the BSF Elizabethan Stage at St. Mary's, located at 3900 Roland Avenue in the Hampden neighborhood in Baltimore City.

Director Michael Carleton has envisioned Richard as the prototype of the amoral modern politician who will stop at nothing to achieve power. While professing the purest and most altruistic of motives, he holds no allegiance but to himself; he is the master of media and manipulator of appearances. To drive the point home, Carleton has Richard's famous opening monologue delivered in part as if it were a victory speech after a political campaign, shows some of the events being broadcast on CNN, and invests much of the proceedings with a Georgetown-y air. And by golly, he's right. The effect is not much different from that of Fair Game, the movie about l'affaire Valerie Plame now playing in the local bijou.

Baltimore Shakespeare Festival (BSF) stages Richard III, William Shakespeare's tale of political ambition taken to extreme, this holiday season on the BSF Elizabethan Stage at St. Mary's, located at 3900 Roland Avenue in the Hampden neighborhood in Baltimore City.

Baltimore Shakespeare Festival (BSF) stages Richard III, William Shakespeare's tale of political ambition taken to extreme, this holiday season on the BSF Elizabethan Stage at St. Mary's, located at 3900 Roland Avenue in the Hampden neighborhood in Baltimore City.