www.pashakespeare.org<\/a>\u00a0or call the box office at 610.282.WILL [9455].<\/p>\nThe professional theatre company at DeSales University, PSF features acclaimed actors from Broadway, television, and film, winners and nominees of the Tony, Obie, Drama Desk, and other major theatre awards, from New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and around the country.<\/em><\/p>\nSummer 2019 Season:<\/strong><\/p>\nMain Stage:\u00a0<\/strong>Crazy for You<\/em>\u00a0(June 12 to June 30),\u00a0<\/strong>Antony and Cleopatra\u00a0<\/em>(July 10 to Aug 4),\u00a0Private Lives<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>(July 18 to Aug 4),\u00a0<\/strong>Shakespeare for Kids<\/em>\u00a0(July 24 to Aug 3).<\/p>\nSchubert Theatre:\u00a0<\/strong>The Adventures of Robin Hood and Maid Marian<\/em>\u00a0(May 31 to Aug 3),\u00a0The Mystery of Irma Vep<\/em>\u00a0(June 20 to July 14),\u00a0Henry IV, Part 1\u00a0<\/em>(July 24 to Aug 4).<\/p>\nAbout Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, under the leadership of Producing Artistic Director Patrick Mulcahy, is the only professional Equity theatre of its scope and scale within a 50-mile radius. PSF is one of only a handful of theatres on the continent producing Shakespeare, musicals, classics, and contemporary plays, all of which can all be seen in rep and in multiple spaces within a few visits in a single summer season. Similarly, PSF was among just a handful of theatres on the continent this summer to produce three Shakespeare plays in a single summer season.\u00a0 A patron would have to travel seven to nine hours from PSF to find a comparable range of offerings at a single theatre within a few weeks\u2019 time. \nThe Festival\u2019s award-winning company of many world-class artists includes Broadway, film, and television veterans, and winners and nominees of the Tony, Emmy, Obie, Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, Jefferson, Hayes, Lortel, and Barrymore awards. A leading Shakespeare theatre with a national reputation for excellence, PSF has received coverage in\u00a0The Washington Post<\/em>,\u00a0NPR<\/em>,\u00a0American Theatre Magazine<\/em>, Playbill.com,\u00a0The Philadelphia Inquirer<\/em>, and in recent seasons\u00a0The New York<\/em>\u00a0Times\u00a0<\/em>has identified PSF as one of the leading summer theatre festivals in the nation. \u201cA world-class theater experience on a par with the top Bard fests,\u201d is how one New York Drama Desk reviewer characterized PSF.<\/p>\nFounded in 1992 and the Official Shakespeare Festival of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, PSF\u2019s mission is to enrich, inspire, engage, and entertain the widest possible audience through first-rate productions of classical and contemporary plays, with a core commitment to Shakespeare and other master dramatists, and through an array of education and mentorship programs. A not-for-profit theatre, PSF receives significant support from its host, DeSales University, from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. With 150 performances of seven productions, the Festival attracts patrons each summer from 30+ states. In 27 years, PSF has offered 168 total productions (72 Shakespeare), and entertained 900,000+ patrons from 50 states, now averaging 34,000-40,000 in attendance each summer season, plus another 13,000 students each year through its WillPower Tour. PSF is a multi-year recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Arts: Shakespeare in American Communities, and is a constituent of Theatre Communications Group, the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance, and the Shakespeare Theatre Association. In 2013, leaders of the world\u2019s premier Shakespeare theatres gathered at PSF as the Festival hosted the international STA Conference.<\/p>\n
The Festival\u2019s vision is for world-class work.<\/p>\n
PATRICK MULCAHY<\/strong>\u00a0(Producing Artistic Director, PSF) Since assuming leadership in 2003, Mulcahy has led PSF\u2019s surge in artistic excellence, financial stability, and national recognition. Accomplishments include first-ever grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, attracting a multitude of award-winning artists including winners and nominees of the Tony, Obie, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Barrymore, and Emmy awards, a doubling of annual attendance, a successful campaign to double the Festival\u2019s endowment, and the expansion of the number of Actors\u2019 Equity contracts per season. He led the strategic planning process that led to PSF\u2019s\u00a0Vision 2030<\/em>, a commitment to world-class professional theatre, and coverage in\u00a0The New York Times<\/em>,\u00a0The Philadelphia Inquirer<\/em>, and\u00a0The Washington Post<\/em>. As a professional director, actor, and fight director, credits include Broadway, Off-Broadway, regional theatre, television and radio. Mr. Mulcahy has acted with many industry luminaries including Don Cheadle, Angela Bassett, Cynthia Nixon, and Tony Shaloub at the New York Shakespeare Festival, The Roundabout Theatre, Hartford Stage, Great Lakes Theatre Festival, and the Walnut Street Theatre.\u00a0 He served as fight director for\u00a0A Few Good Men<\/em>\u00a0on Broadway, and multiple Off-Broadway productions starring Marcia Gay Harden, John Mahoney, Patrick Dempsey, and John Savage.\u00a0 He directed Oscar nominee Vera Farmiga in\u00a0The Real Thing<\/em>, and, for PSF, directed\u00a0The Winter\u2019s Tale<\/em>,\u00a0Henry IV, Part 1<\/em>,\u00a0The Tempest<\/em>,\u00a0Antony and Cleopatra, Hamlet, Macbeth, Julius Caesar,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Shakespeare in Love.<\/em>\u00a0Also Head of Acting at DeSales, Patrick holds degrees in acting and directing from Syracuse University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Contact: Tina Slak, 610.282.WILL [9455] Tina.Slak@pashakespeare.org Center Valley, PA \u2013\u00a0Recently recognized by Playbill.com as one of the \u201cMust Know Regional Theatres\u201d in the nation, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival\u2019s upcoming season will feature Shakespeare\u2019s powerful and passionate\u00a0Antony\u00a0and Cleopatra\u00a0and the epic history play\u00a0Henry IV, Part 1,\u00a0along with a Tony Award-winning musical and two comedic classics in its 28th […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2019-season","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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