LANTERN THEATER COMPANY

EXTENDED BY POPULAR DEMAND! An actor auditions for the title role in Othello . From this simple scenario springs a rich and penetrating exploration of ...
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 Keith Hamilton Cobb...

"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...

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

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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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

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 ...

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 ...

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 pits a famous writer, a magazine editor, and a lowly fact checker against one another in a chaotic battle over ...
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"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' ...

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

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lantern Theater Company Lynn Nottage...

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, ...

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

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 ...

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...

Lantern Theater Company Brian Friel...

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Bertolt Brecht; dir: Charles McMahon....

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

“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 ...

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

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

Tom Stoppard; dir: Peter DeLaurier....

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 ...

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

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 ...

Scott Carter; dir: Kimberly Senior....

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

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 ...

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. ...

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. ...

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

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

Naomi Iizuka; dir: Peter DeLaurier....

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 ...

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

Glen Berger; dir: Kathryn MacMillan....

Anna Ziegler; dir: Kathryn MacMillan....

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

William Shakespeare; dir: Charles McMahon....

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 ...

Athol Fugard; dir: Matt Pfeiffer....

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

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

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 ...

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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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...