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…
View More FAITH HEALER (Lantern): Powerful storytellingTag: Peter DeLaurier
MY GENERAL TUBMAN (Arden): Ancestors calling
Time travel as spiritual reality and a throbbing moral obligation
View More MY GENERAL TUBMAN (Arden): Ancestors callingHAPGOOD (Lantern): Rising to the challenge of a gleefully complicated spy story
Hapgood is not just a spy story, it’s also a physics story
View More HAPGOOD (Lantern): Rising to the challenge of a gleefully complicated spy storyTHE TEMPEST (Lantern): Sounds and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not
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.
View More THE TEMPEST (Lantern): Sounds and sweet airs that give delight and hurt notMORNING’S AT SEVEN (People’s Light): A sorority of acting talent
A delightful comedy that shows an evening and morning in the lives of four sisters
View More MORNING’S AT SEVEN (People’s Light): A sorority of acting talentTheater in Sketch: MORNING’S AT SEVEN (People’s Light)
Paul Osborne’s 1939 comedy gets a new production in Malvern, PA.
View More Theater in Sketch: MORNING’S AT SEVEN (People’s Light)MOON OVER BUFFALO (People’s Light): A few doors short of a farce
Why did People’s Light exhume this largely forgotten play from its well-deserved obscurity?
View More MOON OVER BUFFALO (People’s Light): A few doors short of a farceHow should Philadelphia Theatre Company rebrand itself?
Cameron Kelsall has some ideas for the new executive director.
View More How should Philadelphia Theatre Company rebrand itself?Neal Zoren’s BEST OF PHILADELPHIA THEATER, 2016
Neal Zoren chose his favorite productions, directors, and actors from the last year.
View More Neal Zoren’s BEST OF PHILADELPHIA THEATER, 2016AN ILIAD (Lantern): Homer sweet homer
AN ILIAD brings Homer’s characters and their epic struggle to life using just a sole narrator and musical accompaniment.
View More AN ILIAD (Lantern): Homer sweet homer36 VIEWS (Lantern): Using artifice to reveal truths
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.
View More 36 VIEWS (Lantern): Using artifice to reveal truthsTHE CHERRY ORCHARD (People’s Light): Capturing the comedy, insight, and pathos of Chekhov
Completed in 1904, THE CHERRY ORCHARD, Anton Chekhov’s final dramatic work, is the most often staged of all Russian plays worldwide, and its production at…
View More THE CHERRY ORCHARD (People’s Light): Capturing the comedy, insight, and pathos of ChekhovQED (Lantern) No doctorate in theoretical physics is required to enjoy this production
But you don’t have to be an egghead to enjoy this play. It’s a great show for non-physicists, a category that includes a whole lot of us.
View More QED (Lantern) No doctorate in theoretical physics is required to enjoy this productionQED (Lantern): A glowing tribute to a brilliant man
Peter DeLaurier reprises his role as physicist Richard Feynman in Lantern Theater Company’s remount of its 2006 hit.
View More QED (Lantern): A glowing tribute to a brilliant manTHE TRAIN DRIVER (Lantern): A haunting look across the tracks
There’s something haunting Roelf (Peter DeLaurier) in the Lantern Theater Company’s atmospheric production of Athol Fugard’s THE TRAIN DRIVER. Disturbed by the memory of a…
View More THE TRAIN DRIVER (Lantern): A haunting look across the tracksEMMA (Lantern): Philly falls for Austenmania
Over the past few years, there’s been a surprising and unlikely spark of interest in Jane Austen. Austen’s novels—Pride & Prejudice, Sense & Sensibility, Persuasion, et al—have…
View More EMMA (Lantern): Philly falls for AustenmaniaHEROES (Lantern): Quieter guns of August
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…
View More HEROES (Lantern): Quieter guns of AugustSisyphus Sings in Silent Joy: Lantern Theater Company’s THE ISLAND
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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