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Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival

"2025 Summer Theatre Series"

May 28–August 3, 2025

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PA 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. The Festival’s 2025 Summer Theatre Series opens with two musicals: Mel Brooks’ Tony Award-winning hit The Producers and the new musical Penelope; and features Shakespeare’s masterpiece Hamlet, performed in repertory with Tom Stoppard’s tragicomedy Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead; along with Lorraine Hansberry’s groundbreaking A Raisin in the Sun, the Festival’s “Extreme Shakespeare” of Timon of Athens, and a touring production of Much Ado About Nothing. The season also offers the children’s theatre productions, The Princess and the Frog Prince and Shakespeare for Kids.

Photo above: The cast of In The Heights (Summer 2023). Photo by Lee A. Butz.

Performances

For the 2025 season, the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival proudly presents

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Attending Information

Parking

When you arrive to DeSales University, enjoy free parking in the lot in front of Labuda Center for the Performing Arts (2755 Station Avenue, Center Valley, PA). There is additional parking in the lot adjacent to the Trexler Library. The box office and will call are located inside the Labuda Center.

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PA Shakespeare Festival Tickets

Season subscriptions and single tickets for individual productions are on sale now. Call 610-282-WILL for tickets or buy online.

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Hotels

The preferred partner hotel for Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival is Candlewood Suites in Bethlehem. Conveniently located off Interstate 78, just minutes from historic downtown Bethlehem, and only a short drive from the Festival. Receive a 10% discount when you use code IEEQ8

 

Candlewood Suites Bethlehem

Candlewood Suites Bethlehem

  • 1630 Spillman Dr.
  • (610) 849-4100

The Candlewood Suites® Bethlehem hotel offers the utmost in comfort and exceptional service for your business or leisure travels. Conveniently located off I-78 and only eight miles from the Lehigh Valley International Airport (ABE), the Candlewood Suites® Bethlehem is ideal for annual Bethlehem…

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