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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!
With our milestone 30th anniversary season now behind us and our 2024/25 season underway, it's an exciting time here at the Lantern.
Your resounding feedback over the past year makes it clear that the Lantern's artistic programming has never been stronger. Thanks to those who have shared your thoughts, including four-year subscriber Bruce B., who wrote: "I continue to fall in love with this theater every time I come see a show." At the 2023 Barrymore Awards for Excellence in Philadelphia Theatre, our production of The Royale by Marco Ramirez was recognized with three awards, including Outstanding Production of a Play. We were just honored with nine 2024 Barrymore Award Nominations, spanning all four productions in our 30th anniversary season. And we have welcomed 6,000 local students and their teachers at Lantern performances over the past year, sharing the magic of live theater with a whole new generation of theatergoers. The Lantern needs your support to flourish. Since reopening from Covid, we have continued to invest heavily in our work on stage, in our education programming for our city's students and teachers, and in your experience at St. Stephen's Theater – including recent improvements to seating in the performance space and a welcoming new Box Office in the lobby. We have expanded our marketing efforts to attract new audiences, and we have increased our outreach to strengthen our relationships in the community and with our long-term patrons. Even so, the four years since the pandemic closed theaters in March 2020 have been challenging for the performing arts. Audiences have been slow to return to live theater, and ticket sales for most arts organizations – including the Lantern – remain well below pre-Covid levels. This has created an operating budget gap that can be closed only with your help. When you are in the audience and when you support the work on stage, YOU are the key to the Lantern's success. We ask you now to 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.
Lantern Theater Company acknowledges that it is situated on Lenapehoking, the ancestral and spiritual homeland of the Unami Lenape, and we pay respect to them as this region's original storytellers. ©2024 Lantern Theater Company Privacy Policy |
