The Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival is a professional theater company in residence at DeSales University and the Official Shakespeare Festival of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The Festival is organized as a non-profit 501 in Pennsylvania. Each summer, PSF produces six or more plays and special one-night-only performances. In the fall, PSF tours a Shakespeare play to schools as part of its Linny Fowler WillPower tour. The Festival celebrated its 25th anniversary season in the summer of 2016. Since its inception, the Festival has been attended by 850,000 people. The acting company consists primarily of professional actors from New York and Philadelphia and who are members of Actors' Equity Association. The plays are performed in two theaters in The Labuda Center for the Performing Arts: the 473-seat proscenium Mainstage or the 189-seat thrust Schubert Theater on the DeSales University campus in Center Valley.Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival is listed as a Major Festival in the book Shakespeare Festivals Around the World by Marcus D. Gregio, 2004.Productions2017 SeasonEvita - Lyrics by Tim Rice; Music by Andrew Llyod Webber • June 114 - July 2 • Main StageThe Hound of the Baskervilles – By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Adapted by Steven Canny & John Nicholson • June 21 - July 16 • Schubert TheatreThe Three Musketeers - By Ken Ludwig; Adapted from the novel by Alexandre Dumas • July 12 - August 6 • Main StageAs You Like It - By William Shakespeare • July 20 - August 6 • Main StageTroilus and Cressida - By William Shakespeare • July 26 - August 6 • Schubert TheatreThe Ice Princess - By Brandon E. McLauren; Adapted from Hans Christian Anderson • June 2 - August 5 • Schubert Theatre Shakespeare for Kids - By Erin Sheffield • July 26 - August 5 • Main Stage
