Organization
Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival
Comment on Facebook Each summer, the Festival produces two Shakespeare plays, two plays from world literature, one children’s play and a free outdoor Renaissance-style “Green Show.” PSF is the Official Shakespeare Festival of the Commonwealth and a professi
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Contact Info
Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival
DeSales University
2755 Station Avenue
Center Valley, PA 18034
Phone: 610-282-9455 | Fax: 610-282-9455 | Official Website
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Upcoming Events
06/01/12-
08/04/12 |
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Labuda Center for the Performing Arts
Presented by Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival
at Labuda Center for the Performing Arts
June 1-August 4, 2012
Inner beauty triumphs in this engaging adaptation of the Brothers Grimm classic. The world’s most delightful dwarfs welcome Snow White and help the prince vanquish the vengeful queen. Mirror, mirror on the wall – meet the cast and have a ball!
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06/13/12-
07/01/12 |
Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Labuda Center for the Performing Arts
Presented by Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival
at Labuda Center for the Performing Arts
June 13-July 1, 2012
Music & Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by Hugh Wheeler
From an Adaptation by Christopher Bond
Originally Directed on Broadway by Harold Prince
Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick
Directed by Dennis Razze
Featuring William Michals in the title role
A Tony Award-winning masterpiece by Stephen Sondheim, Sweeney Todd is a sophisticated and uncompromising musical thriller. An unjustly exiled barber returns to 19th century London seeking...
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06/20/12-
07/15/12 |
The Tempest
Labuda Center for the Performing Arts
Presented by Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival
at Labuda Center for the Performing Arts
June 20-July 15, 2012
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Jim Helsinger
Banished from his dukedom by his usurping brother, Prospero lords over an enchanted isle where he tutors his cherished daughter Miranda and conjures spirits of the air and monsters of the earth. Prospero raises a tempest that shipwrecks his enemies on the island. When Miranda unexpectedly falls in love with one of the castaways, Prospero is reawakened to the better angels of his nature.
Shakespeare’s last play, and...
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07/11/12-
08/05/12 |
Much Ado About Nothing
Labuda Center for the Performing Arts
Presented by Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival
at Labuda Center for the Performing Arts
July 11-August 5, 2012
By William Shakespeare
Directed by James J. Christy
With a zest for love and a love of life, Shakespeare’s spirited comedy offers a tale of two courtships. Beatrice and Benedick elevate the art of the quarrel in their duel of glittering wordplay, while Claudio and Hero have their true love put to the test. Dastardly villains are challenged by comical officers, as honor and desire collide to create much ado about laughter and love.
Recommended for ages...
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07/19/12-
08/05/12 |
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Labuda Center for the Performing Arts
Presented by Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival
at Labuda Center for the Performing Arts
July 19-August 5, 2012
A Pulitzer Prize-winning American classic By Tennessee Williams.
Directed by Thomas Ouellette.
Maggie “the Cat” still burns hot for her ex-football star husband, but Brick only has eyes for the bottom of a whiskey bottle. When Big Daddy returns home from a cancer clinic thinking he’s got a clean bill of health, his family swarms for a slice of the inheritance pie. In Tennessee Williams’ explosive Pulitzer Prize winner, the emotional shockwaves intensify...
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07/25/12-
08/05/12 |
King John
Labuda Center for the Performing Arts
Presented by Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival
at Labuda Center for the Performing Arts
July 25-August 5, 2012
Extreme Shakespeare: A play rehearsed the way Shakespeare’s company would have. Actors arrive with their lines learned, rehearse on their own, wear what they can find, and open in a matter of days. No director, no designers. Just great actors, a dynamic play, and pure adrenaline, spontaneity and creativity.
Boundless ambition, corruption, and greed plague a usurping King and his country. As King John navigates a landscape of murder and intrigue, he is challenged from all sides....
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07/25/12-
08/04/12 |
Shakespeare for Kids
Labuda Center for the Performing Arts
Presented by Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival
at Labuda Center for the Performing Arts
July 25-August 4, 2012
"Much ado" with Shakespeare for children ages 4-10. A high-octane, one-hour production designed for kids (and their grown-ups) to experience Shakespeare’s language and characters. With exciting new content every year, S4K activates imaginations and tickles funny bones. This season, Team Shakespeare conjures something delightful from Much Ado About Nothing.
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Current &
Upcoming Events
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Upcoming Events
06/01/12-
08/04/12 |
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Labuda Center for the Performing Arts
Presented by Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival
at Labuda Center for the Performing Arts
June 1-August 4, 2012
Inner beauty triumphs in this engaging adaptation of the Brothers Grimm classic. The world’s most delightful dwarfs welcome Snow White and help the prince vanquish the vengeful queen. Mirror, mirror on the wall – meet the cast and have a ball!
|
06/13/12-
07/01/12 |
Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Labuda Center for the Performing Arts
Presented by Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival
at Labuda Center for the Performing Arts
June 13-July 1, 2012
Music & Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by Hugh Wheeler
From an Adaptation by Christopher Bond
Originally Directed on Broadway by Harold Prince
Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick
Directed by Dennis Razze
Featuring William Michals in the title role
A Tony Award-winning masterpiece by Stephen Sondheim, Sweeney Todd is a sophisticated and uncompromising musical thriller. An unjustly exiled barber returns to 19th century London seeking...
|
06/20/12-
07/15/12 |
The Tempest
Labuda Center for the Performing Arts
Presented by Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival
at Labuda Center for the Performing Arts
June 20-July 15, 2012
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Jim Helsinger
Banished from his dukedom by his usurping brother, Prospero lords over an enchanted isle where he tutors his cherished daughter Miranda and conjures spirits of the air and monsters of the earth. Prospero raises a tempest that shipwrecks his enemies on the island. When Miranda unexpectedly falls in love with one of the castaways, Prospero is reawakened to the better angels of his nature.
Shakespeare’s last play, and...
|
07/11/12-
08/05/12 |
Much Ado About Nothing
Labuda Center for the Performing Arts
Presented by Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival
at Labuda Center for the Performing Arts
July 11-August 5, 2012
By William Shakespeare
Directed by James J. Christy
With a zest for love and a love of life, Shakespeare’s spirited comedy offers a tale of two courtships. Beatrice and Benedick elevate the art of the quarrel in their duel of glittering wordplay, while Claudio and Hero have their true love put to the test. Dastardly villains are challenged by comical officers, as honor and desire collide to create much ado about laughter and love.
Recommended for ages...
|
07/19/12-
08/05/12 |
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Labuda Center for the Performing Arts
Presented by Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival
at Labuda Center for the Performing Arts
July 19-August 5, 2012
A Pulitzer Prize-winning American classic By Tennessee Williams.
Directed by Thomas Ouellette.
Maggie “the Cat” still burns hot for her ex-football star husband, but Brick only has eyes for the bottom of a whiskey bottle. When Big Daddy returns home from a cancer clinic thinking he’s got a clean bill of health, his family swarms for a slice of the inheritance pie. In Tennessee Williams’ explosive Pulitzer Prize winner, the emotional shockwaves intensify...
|
07/25/12-
08/05/12 |
King John
Labuda Center for the Performing Arts
Presented by Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival
at Labuda Center for the Performing Arts
July 25-August 5, 2012
Extreme Shakespeare: A play rehearsed the way Shakespeare’s company would have. Actors arrive with their lines learned, rehearse on their own, wear what they can find, and open in a matter of days. No director, no designers. Just great actors, a dynamic play, and pure adrenaline, spontaneity and creativity.
Boundless ambition, corruption, and greed plague a usurping King and his country. As King John navigates a landscape of murder and intrigue, he is challenged from all sides....
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07/25/12-
08/04/12 |
Shakespeare for Kids
Labuda Center for the Performing Arts
Presented by Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival
at Labuda Center for the Performing Arts
July 25-August 4, 2012
"Much ado" with Shakespeare for children ages 4-10. A high-octane, one-hour production designed for kids (and their grown-ups) to experience Shakespeare’s language and characters. With exciting new content every year, S4K activates imaginations and tickles funny bones. This season, Team Shakespeare conjures something delightful from Much Ado About Nothing.
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Past
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