Lantern Theater Company is proud to announce our 17th Anniversary Season, offering an eclectic selection of modern and classic works. Scroll down to learn more!

By Anton Chekhov
Directed by Kathryn MacMillan
October 21 - November 21, 2010

The Lantern celebrates the 150th anniversary of Chekhov's birth with a fresh production that is bursting with passion and fierce humor. Vanya and his niece Sonya have toiled for years to keep the family estate going. But when Sonya's father, the retired Professor Serebriakov, and his dazzling young wife Yelena return for a visit, all work comes to a halt. Old resentments explode into arguments and secret longings come to light. Don't miss this rare opportunity to enter the provocative, tragicomic world of Chekhov's Russia.

December 3 - 19, 2010

The Lantern presents a festival celebrating Anthony Lawton's spiritual theater for a secular audience, including the autobiographical Heresy and his adaptations of C.S. Lewis' The Great Divorce and Shel Silverstein's The Devil and Billy Markham. NOTE: Between Heaven and Hell is not part of our four-play subscription series, but Lantern subscribers receive substantial discounts on festival tickets – before they go on sale to the general public in Fall 2010! The full performance schedule will be announced shortly.

By Martin McDonagh
Directed by M. Craig Getting and Kathryn MacMillan
January 13 - February 6, 2011

Leenane is a small Irish town with a small Catholic cemetery – too small. Widower Mick Dowd is hired each fall to disinter old bones to make room for the freshly departed. This year's crop threatens to bring to the surface the long hidden secrets of the living. Irish writer Martin McDonagh, beloved for the gleeful madness of the 2007 Lantern hit The Lonesome West and the Oscar-nominated film In Bruges, is the mind behind this raucous, wonderfully unsettling comedy about death and dirt.

By William Shakespeare
Directed by Charles McMahon
March 10 - April 10, 2011

One of Shakespeare's most exuberant and effervescent comedies! Young lovers Hermia and Lysander, kept apart by strict Athenian law, escape to the woods where tyrannical parents can't find them – but mischief can. Elsewhere among the trees, the fairy king and queen are having a marital spat with disastrous consequences for one Nick Bottom. Rediscover your favorite characters in a lively production that will put you in the middle of all the mid-summer romance and magic, brought to you by "the city's most consistent producer of the Bard's work." –Philadelphia Weekly

By Morris Panych
Directed by Peter DeLaurier
May 19 - June 12, 2011

Witty, cheeky, and gratifyingly macabre, this black comedy from Canadian playwright Morris Panych will end the Lantern's 2010/11 season with a bang. Middle-aged curmudgeon Kemp receives a letter from his rich aunt, who writes him she is "old and dying"... or does it say "yodeling?" It's hard to tell – her handwriting isn't very good. But Kemp quits his job and crosses the country to ready her for death, beginning an outrageous series of missteps and misunderstandings that gives way to a surprising, poignant finish. Join us for this clever, glittering hit of the Edinburgh Fringe and London's West End.