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Tag: Lantern Theater Company

Articles and reviews of Philadelphia’s Lantern Theater Company.

photo by Mark Garvin
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HEROES (Lantern): Quieter guns of August

Christopher Munden May 24, 2013 No Comments

It’s 1959. Two veterans of the Great War sit in silence. HENRI: I love the month of August GUSTAVE: I knew it couldn’t last, the…

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Tax time. Is there any money in theater?

Christopher Munden April 15, 2013 1 Comment

Like the rest of us, theater companies have to file taxes. This tax day, we look at some information from the most recent publicly available tax returns (generally 2012) for some major and independent Philadelphia companies.

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HENRY V (Lantern): Grumpy Professor Review

The Grumpy Professor, John T DAlessandro PhD March 25, 2013 3 Comments

HENRY V, a wonderful Shakespeare play, is being presented by the Lantern Theater until the end of April . Charles McMahon usually does very exacting…

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Lantern Theater Company's production of HENRY V (2013). Photo by Paola Nogueras
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The Lantern’s noble HENRY V

Christopher Munden March 22, 2013 2 Comments

HENRY V completes Shakespeare’s four-part series on Plantagenet kings of England. No longer the indolent partier, Prince Hal has inherited the English throne, but is…

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Megan Bellwoar (standing) and Mary Martello (seated) as Maureen and Mag Folan in Lantern Theater Company’s production of Martin McDonagh’s THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE. Photo by Mark Garvin.
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A Darker Emerald Isle: Lantern’s THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE

Christopher Munden January 10, 2013 No Comments

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…

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Best of Philadelphia Theater, 2011-12

Christopher Munden August 10, 2012 No Comments

Here are my annual picks for the best of Philadelphia theater: Best Play: August: Osage County (Arden) Honorable mention: The Island (Lantern) Best Actor, Male: Frank…

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Sisyphus Sings in Silent Joy: Lantern Theater Company’s THE ISLAND

Christopher Munden May 25, 2012 No Comments

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…

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Romeo and Juliet (Lantern Theater Company): Do we need another R&J?

Kathryn Osenlund March 16, 2012 No Comments

You may ask, “Do we need yet another production of Romeo and Juliet?” The answer is yes we do. This is the Lantern. Next question? The…

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Old People and Theater (VIGIL at Lantern)

Christopher Munden May 30, 2011 No Comments

I began to attend Philadelphia theater in earnest about a decade ago, in my early mid-twenties. Consistently, my companion and I would be the youngest…

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Theater People vs. Theater Critics…The Ultimate Debate

Christopher Munden May 23, 2011 No Comments

I’ve been a lover of the stage as long as I can remember. Mostly this love has been realized as a patron of local theaters.…

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Why’s Everyone Such a Critic?

Christopher Munden May 23, 2011 2 Comments

I’ve been a lover of the stage as long as I can remember. Mostly this love has been realized as a patron of local theaters.…

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Brat Productions Presents ‘Carrie’ at Underground Arts

Christopher Munden October 19, 2010 No Comments

Published in 1974, Stephen King’s Carrie, the tale of a bullied high school outcast who takes bloody telekinetic revenge upon her torturers, kick started a horror-writing career that…

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A Demonic Tour de Force: The Screwtape Letters Returns to the Lantern Theater Company

Christopher Munden May 27, 2010 No Comments

C.S. Lewis‘s The Screwtape Letters is more overtly religious than his allegorical children’s books. But just as an appreciation for the Narnia tales does not require a…

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No Deceit: Lantern Theater’s Scapin is a Treat

Christopher Munden December 15, 2009 1 Comment

A classic work of comic literature, a joyous reworking by one of the best clowns in modern theater, an imaginative staging by a top-class Philadelphia…

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