Sunday, April 9, 2023

Lantern's 2023-24 Season

 

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.

 

No comments:

Post a Comment