DOGBERRY AND VERGES ARE SCARED

Like Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, this new play by Mike Doherty and Will Mobley portrays the offstage life of two of Shakespeare's minor characters.  By turns outlandishly silly and quietly heartbreaking,  this play is an exploration of ambition and friendship.  (Dogberry and Verges are not the sharpest tools in the shed, btw.)  This is the 25th casting of Lawton with Scott Greer since 1999.  You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll pee your pants.

A co-production with Slippery Trout Productions and Cincinnati Shakespeare Company.

Lawton's first tragic lead since Winter's Tale, 1994!  

Witches, murder, evil incantations, betrayal, more murder -- come live it up, watching Shakespeare's tale of ambition and sin.

Lantern's 8th annual remounting of this holiday favorite -- Tony Lawton's solo adaptation of Dickens' classic.

"The net effect is to take a familiar tale that time and acquaintance have rendered perilously close to kitsch and bring it electrifyingly to life. I’ve never seen the story of the three ghosts feel more spine-tingly scary. I’ve rarely found Dickens’s quirky humor register as so genuinely funny. And maybe most important for A Christmas Carol’s ultimate message—I had thought I was inured to the image of Tiny Tim’s crutch standing alone in the corner, but unexpectedly I teared up when Lawton, with masterly understatement, came to the passage.

This is very much A Christmas Carol for adults, though thoughtful youngsters—especially those with an interest in theater—will surely love it."  

-- D.A. Fox, Reclining Standards