Illumination Education Program | Lantern Theater Company

Education

Student Matinees for Middle and High School Audiences

Classroom Residencies

Teacher Training: Bard Basics

Drama Leader Training with ASAP

Empathy Project

Lantern Theater Company's Illumination Education Program

Measuring Impact

In a three-year review of residency data, classrooms participating in the Lantern's Illumination programming have shown improved attendance and PSSA proficiency results more than 20% higher in both writing and math than non-participating students. Additionally, participating students display a greater sense of self-respect, discipline, and cooperation among their peers. Get involved! For more information, please contact our Education Department at .

Illumination Education Program

Our Philosophy

At Lantern Theater Company, we believe that arts education is a vital component of creating vibrant, well-rounded citizens. Given the ongoing challenges facing the education system in Philadelphia, it is our civic duty to do what we can to support arts in the classroom and, more importantly, to support the current generation of students who are most affected by these challenges.

Our award-winning education program, Illumination, is designed to educate and engage local students in the world of theater and in their own artistic expression in these vital ways:

Classroom Connections, our classroom residency program with partner schools
Student matinee performances and academic group discounts for select mainstage productions and for our annual production of Romeo and Juliet for middle and high school audiences
Act 48 Continuing Professional Education training for classroom teachers
Drama Leader Training in partnership with ASAP/After School Activities Partnerships' after-school drama club programs
The Empathy Project in partnership with the Sidney Kimmel Medical College (SKMC) of Thomas Jefferson University

For More Information

If you would like to participate in or support any of our Illumination programming, please contact Matt Tallman, Education Director, at mtallman@lanterntheater.org or 215.829.9002 x104.

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Pictured: Lantern Theater Company's Illumination program

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Header Photo: Paul L. Nolan, Sally Mercer, and Charles McMahon in Copenhagen (2018); Charlie DelMarcelle, Anthony Lawton, Jered McLenigan, and Brian Anthony Wilson in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (2019); Anthony Lawton and Paul L. Nolan in The Craftsman (2017); and Bi Jean Ngo and Peter DeLaurier in The Tempest (2018). Photos by Mark Garvin.

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