Review: Philadelphia Ballet's Holiday Staple The Nutcracker Returns to the Academy of Music
by Scott Serio - December 07, 2025
Philadelphia Ballet's Holiday Staple The Nutcracker Returns to the Academy of Music in Center City Through New Year's Eve....
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The Real Thing
Sep 4 – Oct 5, 2025
Lantern Theater Company opens its 2025/26 season with The Real Thing by Tom Stoppard, directed by Peter DeLaurier. The cast includes Trevor William Fayle, J...
The 39 Steps
May 15 – Jun 15, 2025
A spy thriller or a rollicking comedy? Why not both! We travel from London to the Scottish Highlands and back again in this absurdist play...
Much Ado About Nothing
Feb 13 – Mar 16, 2025
Beatrice and Benedick hardly seem like a couple to be placed at the center of a classic romantic comedy. Well past the age of youthful...
American Moor
Nov 7 – Dec 15, 2024
EXTENDED BY POPULAR DEMAND!An actor auditions for the title role in Othello. From this simple scenario springs a rich and penetrating exploration of Shakespeare in...
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The Wanderers
Sep 5 – Oct 6, 2024
"Absorbing, twisty, and thoughtful... the finest play of the year!" –The Wall Street JournalTwo couples – Esther and Schmuli, Abe and Sophie – seem destined...
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William Shakespeare's THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
May 16 – Jun 16, 2024
Join us for Shakespeare's unrivaled comedy of mistaken identities, twins separated at birth, and love lost and won.
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FAITH HEALER
Feb 1 – Mar 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
Dec 2 – Dec 27, 2023
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
Nov 9 – Dec 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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Molière's TARTUFFE
Sep 7 – Oct 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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William Shakespeare's TWELFTH NIGHT
May 18 – Jun 18, 2023
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
Feb 2 – Mar 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
Dec 3 – Jan 2, 2023
"Electrifying!" –THE WALL STREET JOURNAL"A 95-minute masterpiece. Brilliantly performed and staged." –THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRERIn this wonderfully clear and direct telling of Charles Dickens' beloved novella,...
THE ROYALE
Nov 10 – Dec 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...
Travesties
Sep 8 – Oct 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
Jun 2 – Jun 26, 2022
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...
A Man for All Seasons
Mar 10 – Apr 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
Sep 9 – Feb 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
Jan 11 – Feb 27, 2022
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)
Dec 14 – Jan 2, 2022
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)
Dec 3 – Dec 30, 2021
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
Nov 9 – Dec 19, 2021
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
Oct 7 – Nov 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
Jun 1 – Jun 27, 2021
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...
Plays from the Lantern Archives: THE TEMPEST
May 4 – May 30, 2021
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
Apr 6 – May 2, 2021
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
Mar 2 – Mar 28, 2021
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
Jan 15 – Mar 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
Dec 4 – Dec 27, 2020
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...
Emma
Sep 19 – Oct 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...
Heroes
May 16 – Jun 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...
The Spark of War: Politics, Leadership, and the Psyche of a Nation
Mar 25 – Apr 8, 2013
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The Beauty Queen of Leenane
Jan 10 – Feb 3, 2013
St. Stephen's Theater: - Martin McDonagh; dir: Kathryn MacMillan....
The Island
May 17 – Jun 10, 2012
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