Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival launches its Main Stage summer season with the Tony Award-winning musical “In the Heights,” opening Friday, and running through July 2 at the Labuda Center for the Performing Arts on the campus of DeSales University, 2755 Station Ave., Center Valley.
Co-written by Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda and Pulitzer Prize winner Quiara Alegría Hudes, “In the Heights” is set over a Fourth of July weekend in the life of the vibrant neighborhood in New York’s Washington Heights. From the vantage point of Usnavi’s corner bodega, viewers experience a community on the brink of change, full of hopes, dreams and pressures, where the biggest struggles can be deciding which traditions you take with you, and which ones you leave behind.
The production will be directed by Valeria Cossu, with choreography by Michael Anthony Sylvester, and musical direction by Walter “Bobby” McCoy. PSF will tell this story with artists from Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, and a multitude of ethnicities.
Audiences can enhance the experience before every performance with live music and a variety of dining options “On the Green;” an opening night post-show champagne toast with the PSF Company on Friday; a Director’s Dinner at 5 p.m. Wednesday, June 28; a talk-back with the actors after the show on Thursday, June 22 and 29; and an audio described and open captioned performance at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 28.
For tickets and information, visit https://pashakespeare.org, call 610-282-WILL [9455] or visit the PSF box office at the Labuda Center for the Performing Arts.
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