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 Support the Lantern Your support is crucial to our mission of producing world-class theater while serving the Philadelphia community with our award-winning education programs. We invite you to contribute to the Lantern's success by making a tax-deductible gift today.
We hope that you have been enjoying the Lantern's 2025/26 season, from the witty dialogue of The Real Thing by Tom Stoppard to the heartbreak of Macbeth and the moving mix of tragedy and hope in Blues for an Alabama Sky. We are looking forward to closing the season with the Philadelphia premiere of Franklinland, Lloyd Suh's endearing comedy of Revolutionary consequences, here in the city where it happened.
As this school year comes to close, we are on track to provide 40 classroom residencies on curricular works of literature to more than 1,000 local middle school and high school students and to host over 2,300 students and teachers at 19 student matinee performances. Half of these tickets will be free to school groups. You value our work on stage: this season, our subscription income has increased 10% and single ticket sales are up more than 20%. Unfortunately, attendance remains below the pre-Covid peak of the 2018/19 season, and structural costs in the performing arts rise every year. Even with impressive ticket sales gains, we are at risk to incur a budget gap that can only be closed with your help. We need your support today. We have an ambitious plan that will enable us to return to the levels of institutional health and artistic growth that the Lantern enjoyed pre-Covid. This plan will require substantial investment over the next year. If you enjoy Lantern plays and feel that live theater brings meaning and artistic excellence into your life, please let us know that you feel strongly about having the Lantern as a key player in the Philadelphia performing arts world. We rely on contributions for 70% of the Lantern's income. With foundation and government grants to the arts declining – nationally and locally – we must ask our individual patrons to raise your engagement and generosity. YOU are the key to the Lantern's success – when you are in the audience and when you support the work on stage. We ask you now to take advantage of this exciting Challenge Match and give generously to support your theater company. With deepest appreciation,
Every dollar makes a big difference.
Questions? Please contact our Development Team at development@lanterntheater.org. Thank you for supporting the Lantern! 
Lantern Theater Company is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. Our Federal Tax ID number is 23-2798692. Donations to Lantern Theater Company are tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law. The official registration and financial information of Lantern Theater Company may be obtained from the Pennsylvania Department of State by calling toll free, within Pennsylvania, 1-800-732-0999. Registration does not imply endorsement. Pictured: Phillip Brown in The Royale (2022). Photo: Mark Garvin.
 
Header Photo: Lawrence Stallings in the world premiere of Me and the Devil (2021); Anthony Lawton and Dave Johnson in Travesties (2022); Melissa Rakiro and Joanna Liao in Twelfth Night (2023); and Paul L. Nolan, Sally Mercer, and Charles McMahon in Copenhagen (2018). Photos by Mark Garvin.
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