FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 20, 2011

Due to extraordinarily high demand, Lantern Theater Company announces a one-week extension of A Skull in Connemara by acclaimed Irish playwright Martin McDonagh. With seven performances already sold out and 75% of all seats sold prior to opening night, the play will now run through February 13. The following performances have been added:

Wednesday, February 9 at 7:00pm
Thursday, February 10 at 7:00pm
Friday, February 11 at 8:00pm
Saturday, February 12 at 2:00pm & 8:00pm
Sunday, February 13 at 2:00pm

Co-directed by M. Craig Getting and the Lantern's Associate Artistic Director Kathryn MacMillan, the Lantern's Philadelphia premiere of A Skull in Connemara continues the company's longstanding tradition of bringing Irish and English works to life on the stage and is part of the Philadelphia Irish Theatre Festival, which will feature three plays written by McDonagh.

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, and this year's crop threatens to bring to the surface the long hidden secrets of the living. 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 and unsettling comedy about death and dirt.

Tickets are $20-$36 and are available online at www.lanterntheater.org or by calling the Lantern Box Office at 215.829.0395. $10 student rush tickets are available 10 minutes before curtain with valid ID; cash only. Lantern Theater Company is located at St. Stephen's Theater, 10th at Ludlow Streets in Philadelphia.

A Skull in Connemara
By Martin McDonagh
Directed by M. Craig Getting and Kathryn MacMillan

Now through February 13, 2011

Cast (in alphabetical order)
Jake Blouch as Mairtin
Jered McLenigan as Thomas
Ellen Mulroney as Maryjohnny
Stephen Novelli as Mick

Production Team
Dirk Durossette, Scenic Designer
Natalia de la Torre, Costume Designer
Shon Causer, Lighting Designer
Larry D. Fowler, Jr., Sound Designer
J. Alex Cordaro, Fight Director
Marla Burkholder, Dialect Coach
Tim Martin, Production Manager & Props Designer
Rebecca Smith, Stage Manager

Philadelphia Irish Theatre Festival
A Skull in Connemara is part of the Philadelphia Irish Theatre Festival and Irish MixTix. During the Festival, six Philadelphia-area theater companies are presenting works by Irish playwrights between December 2010 and May 2011. With the Irish MixTix - available only at www.theatrealliance.org - patrons can order tickets to two or more plays and save 20% off the ticket prices listed.

2010/11 Season
Lantern Theater Company will continue its 2010/11 season with William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Charles McMahon (March 10 - April 10, 2011), and Morris Panych's Vigil, directed by Peter DeLaurier (May 19 - June 12, 2011).

Lantern Theater Company thanks its 2010/11 season corporate partners at Marathon Grill, La Fourno Ristorante Trattoria, and Dunkin' Donuts, and its community partners at St. Stephen's Church.