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THE 39 STEPS (Lantern): Hitchcock onstage

Kathryn Osenlund May 28, 2025 No Comments

Adapted by Patrick Barlow from the novel by John Buchan and the movie by Alfred Hitchcock

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MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (Lantern): Still a joy

Kathryn Osenlund February 25, 2025 No Comments

A script needs life breathed into it and that’s what happens with an inspired director, designers, and talented versatile actors.

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THE COMEDY OF ERRORS (Lantern): Twins, shipwreck, mistaken identity, romance gone awry

Kathryn Osenlund May 28, 2024 No Comments

One of Shakespeare’s greatest hits, his first comedy, The Comedy of Errors, is playing at the Lantern Theater Company until June 16. Twins, shipwreck, mistaken…

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FAITH HEALER (Lantern): Powerful storytelling

Kathryn Osenlund February 13, 2024 1 Comment

The Lantern Theater’s performance of Faith Healer, by Brian Friel is presented as four monologues that represent three points of view, those of Frank Hardy…

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TARTUFFE (Lantern): Delightfully over-the-top

Kathryn Osenlund September 29, 2023 No Comments

Before he became a celebrated playwright, Jean-Baptiste Poquelan was a poor thing in a touring shoestring theater company. Although he had wanted to be a…

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TWELFTH NIGHT (Lantern): Some are born great

Kathryn Osenlund June 2, 2023 1 Comment

Shakespeare wrote Twelfth Night (1599-1600), one of his few fantasy plays, immediately before he penned his incomparable Hamlet (1600-1601).  As Artistic Director Charles McMahon describes…

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TWELFTH NIGHT (Lantern): Shall we set about some revels?

Toby Zinman May 29, 2023 No Comments

“Shall we set about some revels?” Yes!  The battle begins: Lantern Theater Company opened its excellent and enjoyable production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night; soon to…

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TRAVESTIES (Lantern): A play of ideas married to farce

Toby Zinman September 15, 2022 1 Comment

Tom Stoppard’s newest play Leopoldstadt is coming to New York, and once again he is being talked about as if he were the second coming…

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THE RESISTABLE RISE OF ARTURO UI (Lantern): 60-second review

Rudolf Schreiber September 25, 2019 No Comments

A quick, masterful production that would make Brecht proud.

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MEASURE FOR MEASURE (Lantern): A Gchat review

Christopher Munden March 25, 2019 2 Comments

Julius Ferraro and Christopher Munden discuss Lantern Theater’s production on Gchat.

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THE TEMPEST (Lantern): Sounds and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not

Toby Zinman March 23, 2018 No Comments

Lantern Theater’s production of THE TEMPEST, Shakespeare’s last play, is an enjoyable, modest show, full of comedy and romance and the gentle spirit of human forgiveness.

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COPENHAGEN (Lantern): Observable quantities

Kathryn Osenlund January 23, 2018 No Comments

I suspect that among the reasons COPENHAGEN has been so successful is that it invites us to believe that we are smarter than we actually are

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THE CRAFTSMAN (Lantern): Crafting a good story

Christopher Munden November 16, 2017 No Comments

Now in its world premiere from Lantern Theater, the latest play by Philly’s favorite playwright Bruce Graham is based on a true story. It’s a great story.

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THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO THOMAS JEFFERSON, CHARLES DICKENS & COUNT LEO TOLSTOY: DISCORD (Lantern Theater Company): Locked in limbo with literati

Kathryn Osenlund June 13, 2017 2 Comments

The Lantern team transforms an essentially all-talk playscript into an engaging, living piece of theater.

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36 VIEWS (Lantern): Using artifice to reveal truths

Christopher Munden June 2, 2016 No Comments

Visually beautiful and compelling in its coherence, 36 VIEWS weaves these intellectual concepts on the uncertainty of art and life with a wholly original style.

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AS YOU LIKE IT (Lantern): As you’ve never seen it!

Debra Miller March 18, 2016 2 Comments

A cross-temporal interpretation of Shakespeare’s Elizabethan classic injects passages of current expressions and gestures, slapstick, and original music into the well-known pastoral rom-com.

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Commedia dell’Arte: Highlights from the “Master Class with Antonio Fava”

Benjamin Lloyd February 17, 2016 No Comments

Experiences in a master class with maestro Antonio Fava

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How Commedia dell’Arte Maestro Antonio Fava influenced my teaching and my life: Interview with Craig Tavani

Henrik Eger February 16, 2016 No Comments

Maestro Antonio Fava has taught Commedia dell’Arte to quite a few Philadelphia-area actors and directors, including Immaculata University instructor Craig Tavani.

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OSCAR WILDE: FROM THE DEPTHS (Lantern): A love that dared not speak its mind

Kathryn Osenlund January 30, 2016 2 Comments

With his brilliant work and tragic arc, Oscar Wilde remains a fascinating figure.

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Chatting with the Lantern’s Charles McMahon about his new play on Oscar Wilde

Debra Miller January 2, 2016 No Comments

Charles McMahon discusses the inspiration, themes, and format of his new play on Oscar Wilde, prior to its world premiere with Lantern Theater Company.

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