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Lantern Theater Company’s Philadelphia premiere of Tom Stoppard’s HEROES, adapted and translated from Gérald Sibleyras’ Le Vent des Peupliers (“The Wind in the Poplars”), is funny and profound and fully relatable; it’s beautifully staged and brilliantly acted. A production like this reminds audiences and critics alike of why they love [...]

For the 600-year anniversary of his accession to the English throne, Lantern Theater Company–whose annual spring Shakespeare production has become a Philadelphia tradition–presents HENRY V. The complex history piece, filled with a dizzying array of characters and locales, is an epic of kingships, revolts, battles, and bloodshed. Set at the [...]

The Lantern Theater Company’s production of THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE completes its presentation of Martin McDonagh’s Leenane Trilogy, following 2007’s THE LONESOME WEST and 2011’s A SKULL IN CONNEMARA. Chronologically the first entry into the trilogy and McDonagh’s first major play, THE BEAUTY QUEEN is not as staunchly original [...]

Following its remount of David Ives’ heavy historical fiction NEW JERUSALEM in September, Lantern Theater Company opened its regular season with another much lighter work by the playwright, his 2010 translation and adaptation of THE LIAR. The new “translaptation” of the 17th-century romantic farce about a pathological liar is written [...]

In his essay The Myth of Sisyphus Albert Camus compares man’s existence to the figure from Greek mythology, condemned for eternity to push a rock up a mountain, only to have it fall to the bottom again. Yet the philosopher presents the image of Sisyphus in “silent joy,” where the [...]

It’s hard to imagine that even the Bard himself would not be in awe of Lantern Theater Company’s current offering. The theater’s refreshingly genuine take on a well-known classic, coupled with impeccable production talent, meets and in certain cases exceeds the lofty expectations audiences have come to expect from Lantern. [...]

PRIVATE LIVES–Noël Coward’s romantic comedy of manners of the British upper crust–debuted in 1930, in the midst of the Great Depression in both America and England. It is a welcome delight that Lantern Theater Company has chosen to revive the glamorous farce of the idle rich for the holidays (concurrent [...]

Is attacking two of the most educated and progressive historic religious cultures the best way to begin a dialogue about free-thinking and tolerance? David Ives’ vitriolic fantasy about the trial of Spinoza shows little tolerance for either the Protestants or Sephardic Jews of 17th-century Amsterdam, and equally little historical accuracy. [...]

The Lantern Theater Company opened its latest production, A SKULL IN CONNEMARA on Wednesday January 19. The show takes place in a small town in Ireland with a very small Catholic cemetery – too small as it turns out. Each year a local widower is hired to disinter old bones [...]

The Lantern Theater Company opened its season this week with a reflective and superbly performed production of Anton Chekhov’s UNCLE VANYA. Professor Serebryakov (David Howey) and his young wife Yelena (Sarah Sanford) return to their country home and their odd behaviors disrupt the otherwise monotonous country lifestyle, almost to the [...]

STAGE Magazine’s News Reporter, Jim Hilgen, has produced a special series of exclusive video interviews with selected 2010 Barrymore Award Nominees. The second of the series of interviews is a conversation with Ceal Phelan, one of the 2010 nominees for the Charlotte Cushman Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a [...]