The
Lantern Theater Company, located in the
St. Stephen’s Theater, 10th and Ludlow Streets, has announced the schedule
for its upcoming 2023-2024 theatre season. The first play of their 30th Anniversary Season will be
Moliere’s TARTUFFE.
directed by Charles McMahon. It will run
from September 7- October 8, 2023, with
the PRESS OPENING on Wednesday 13, 2023 at 7:OO p.m. Prim and devout Orgon invites
Tartuffe , a charlatan, into his household, laying the scene for social outrage.
The next play is Crumbs From the Table of Joy by Lynn Nottage which will
run from November 9 – December 10. 2023 with a PRESS OPENING on Wednesday,
November 15, 2023, at 7:00 p.m. The Crump family is newly landed in Brooklyn
from the South and are seeking their place in the Philadelphia-based Father
Divine movement, but their two teenage daughters are uncomfortable with their
father’s religious strictures. They are given
encouragement from their carefree and lively communist Aunt Lily. The third
offering is Faith Healer Brian
Friel and directed by Peter DeLaurier from February 1-March 3. 2024 with a
PRESS OPENING on Wednesday, February 7. 2024 at 7:00 P.M. The Lantern Theater Company
produces one of Shakespeare’s works
every year. Next year, it will be The Comedy of Errors, directed
by Charles McMahon from May 16- June 16, 2024, with the PRESS OPENING on Wednesday,
May 22, 2024, at 7:00 P.M. 2023-24 The Special Holiday Production is Charles Dickens’
A Christmas Carol from December 2-27, 2023. This is an original
adaptation by Anthony Lawton in collaboration with Christopher Colucci and Thom
Weaver. For tickets, call 215- 829-0395 or visit online at www.lanterntheater.org.
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