Arts & Culture
Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival opens 35th Anniversary Season with its Summer Theatre Series featuring nine productions
Learn more about the 35th season lineup.
Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival (PSF) opens its 2026 Summer Theatre Series, themed “Legends and Legacy,” celebrating a historic convergence of milestones: PSF’s 35th anniversary, its 30th year as the official Shakespeare Festival of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the nation’s Semiquincentennial.
Running through August 2 at the Labuda Center for the Performing Arts on the campus of DeSales University, the season lineup includes August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson; the jukebox musical Million Dollar Quartet; Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, presented in repertory with Ken Ludwig’s new Sherlock Holmes comedy Moriarty; The Complete Works of Jane Austen, Abridged; and an “Extreme Shakespeare” production of Coriolanus, which advances PSF’s progress toward completing the Shakespearean canon.
Rounding out the season, the family series includes the “Play On!” Community Tour bringing Shakespeare’s As You Like It free to regional audiences, a new children’s play titled Sheila the Magical, and the beloved Shakespeare for Kids presents Romeo and Juliet on the Festival Main Stage and through its community library tour.
Each production has been selected to spark conversation, entertain audiences of all ages, and honor the artistic excellence that has defined PSF for 35 years. Running now through August 2, view the full season lineup here at pashakespeare.org.
About Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival
Founded in 1992, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival is the Lehigh Valley’s Professional Equity Theatre hosted on the campus of DeSales University, featuring acclaimed actors from Broadway, television, and film, and is the 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. PSF’s mission is to enrich, engage, entertain, and inspire the widest possible audience through professional productions of classic, contemporary, and Shakespearean works, along with educational programming and mentorship opportunities for emerging artists.
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