Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival Unveils Ambitious 2025 Season: Nine Full Productions Exploring “Undiscovered Countries”
Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival’s leadership team, Jason King Jones, artistic director, and Casey William Gallagher, managing director, are thrilled to announce the 2025 Summer Season—nine productions united through the theme “Undiscovered Countries.”
“At PSF we love how incredible stories and exceptional artistry can transport us to imaginative places we’ve never experienced,” says Jones. “Whether the undiscovered countries are geographic, psychological, or otherwise, we invite our community to bravely journey with us into the unknown.”
The season features three plays by William Shakespeare including “Hamlet,” playing in repertory with Tom Stoppard’s tragicomedy “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead,” the lesser staged “Timon of Athens,” and a touring production of “Much Ado About Nothing.” The season also features Lorraine Hansberry’s landmark drama “A Raisin in the Sun,” alongside two musical productions: Mel Brooks’ Tony Award-winning “The Producers” and the new musical “Penelope” by Alex Bechtel.
Family programming includes a fresh adaptation of the Grimms’ fairy tales “The Princess and the Frog Prince,” and the beloved “Shakespeare for Kids” series, which brings “Hamlet” to life for young audiences both at the Festival and through its community library tour.
“For an exceptional community we’ve put together an exceptional season. The professional artistry we’re planning for 2025 is electrifying, and we invite everyone to experience the thrill of live professional theatre right here in the Lehigh Valley,” says Jones.
Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival is the Lehigh Valley’s Professional Equity Theatre hosted on the campus of DeSales University. Season subscriptions for the Summer 2025 Season will go on sale to current subscribers on Nov. 14, followed by an additional campaign beginning in January 2025 open to all patrons to subscribe for the best savings and seats before single tickets go on sale to the public in February 2025.
Questions? tina.slak@pashakespeare.org