Our Mission
Home in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, The Orpheus Theatre Company brings new and challenging work to the stage. Along with new works, we revitalize long known classics with modern (if not post-modern) perspective.
Together, we will interrogate the cannon.
Jeremiah Miller as Lee, left and John Kleimo, right in THE DEVIL POURS IT STEADY
(July 2021, filmed at Elizabethtown College)
Why Orpheus?
Orpheus Journeyed to Hades to sing for the return of his love, Eurydice. He moved Hades himself to tears. As Orpheus was moved for her, so too, are we for our audiences. Nomadic in nature, The Orpheus Theatre Company connects its audiences to the broader Lancaster community.
We seek to take you on an emotional journey - journeys of laughter and tears - to Hades and back.
Will you join us?
Gabrielle Sheller as Aphrodite, right and Benny Benamati as Penthesilea, left in PENTHESILEA: THE WOMAN WHO KILLED ACHILLES
(September, 2021, Historic Rock Ford, co-produced with Theater of the Seventh Sister)