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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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MY GENERAL TUBMAN (Arden): Ancestors calling

Toby Zinman January 24, 2020 No Comments

Time travel as spiritual reality and a throbbing moral obligation

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HAPGOOD (Lantern): Rising to the challenge of a gleefully complicated spy story

Toby Zinman September 14, 2018 No Comments

Hapgood is not just a spy story, it’s also a physics story

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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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MORNING’S AT SEVEN (People’s Light): A sorority of acting talent

Neal Zoren for NealsPaper January 25, 2018 No Comments

A delightful comedy that shows an evening and morning in the lives of four sisters

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Theater in Sketch: MORNING’S AT SEVEN (People’s Light)

Chuck Schultz January 23, 2018 1 Comment

Paul Osborne’s 1939 comedy gets a new production in Malvern, PA.

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MOON OVER BUFFALO (People’s Light): A few doors short of a farce

Cameron Kelsall July 26, 2017 2 Comments

Why did People’s Light exhume this largely forgotten play from its well-deserved obscurity?

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How should Philadelphia Theatre Company rebrand itself?

Cameron Kelsall April 23, 2017 1 Comment

Cameron Kelsall has some ideas for the new executive director.

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Neal Zoren’s BEST OF PHILADELPHIA THEATER, 2016

Neal Zoren for NealsPaper February 12, 2017 1 Comment

Neal Zoren chose his favorite productions, directors, and actors from the last year.

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AN ILIAD (Lantern): Homer sweet homer

Christopher Munden November 22, 2016 No Comments

AN ILIAD brings Homer’s characters and their epic struggle to life using just a sole narrator and musical accompaniment.

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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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Mary McDonnell and Olivia Mell in THE CHERRY ORCHARD at People’s Light (Photo credit: Mark Garvin)
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THE CHERRY ORCHARD (People’s Light): Capturing the comedy, insight, and pathos of Chekhov

Debra Miller February 15, 2015 4 Comments

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…

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Clare Mahoney and Peter DeLaurier in Lantern Theater Company's QED (Photo credit: Mark Garvin).
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QED (Lantern) No doctorate in theoretical physics is required to enjoy this production

Kathryn Osenlund November 23, 2014 No Comments

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.

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Peter DeLaurier (with Clare Mahoney in the background) in Lantern Theater Company's QED (Photo credit: Mark Garvin).
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QED (Lantern): A glowing tribute to a brilliant man

Debra Miller November 23, 2014 No Comments

Peter DeLaurier reprises his role as physicist Richard Feynman in Lantern Theater Company’s remount of its 2006 hit.

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Lantern Theater Company The Train Driver review
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THE TRAIN DRIVER (Lantern): A haunting look across the tracks

Christopher Munden April 17, 2014 1 Comment

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…

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Lantern Theater Company's production of Jane Austen's EMMA review
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EMMA (Lantern): Philly falls for Austenmania

Michael Fisher September 27, 2013 2 Comments

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…

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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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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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