Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival

Cause Area

  • Arts & Culture
  • Children & Youth
  • Community
  • Education & Literacy

Location

2755 Station AvenueCenter Valley, PA 18034 United States
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Mission Statement

The mission of Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival is to enrich, inspire, engage, and entertain the widest possible audience through first-rate professional productions of classical and contemporary plays, with a core commitment to the works of Shakespeare and other master dramatists, and through an array of educational outreach and mentorship programs. The Festival's core values: Quality: the revelation of beauty through transformative artistry Shakespeare: producing plays of the greatest playwright in the English language Education: illuminating Shakespeare, the power of language, and the professional theatre Relationships: cultivating and mobilizing enduring collaborative alliances

Description

A leading Shakespeare festival with an emerging national reputation for excellence, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival is a professional theatre company on the campus of DeSales University.

Each summer, PSF produces a season of Shakespeare and other classics, musical theatre, and children’s theatre. About an hour north of Philadelphia and less than two hours from Manhattan, PSF is summer home to over 200 artists from around the country, including winners and nominees of the Tony, Obie, Emmy, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Jefferson, and Barrymore awards. Every year 40,000-50,000 patrons attend PSF from 30+ states - 783,000 patrons from 50 states and many countries since 1992. Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival will celebrate its 25th anniversary season in 2016.

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