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 Lantern Anywhere
This spring 2020 series of virtual artistic programming was created to enlighten and entertain audiences while we were unable to come together in person.
Designed to bring the Lantern into your home, these artistic adventures helped bring solace during the darkest period of the Covid pandemic. These programs also created opportunities for our theater artists to earn income and to practice their craft while theaters across our city – and the world – were closed. Shakespeare NOW Reading Archives
 Sonnet Sessions
Explore the world of Shakespearean poetry
Lantern Artistic Director Charles McMahon collaborated with some of your favorite Philadelphia actors to read Shakespeare's sonnets, and to demonstrate how directors and actors work together to bring meaning and clarity to poetry and dialogue. These short videos will help you enjoy these beautiful poems in fresh new ways. "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" –Sonnet 18
"Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed" –Sonnet 27
"Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'er-sways their power" –Sonnet 65
 Pictured: Lindsay Smiling and Campbell O'Hare in Othello (2020). 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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