The Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre Brings Touring Production of HAMLET on the Road

This spring, "the play's the thing" as The Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre brings its professional touring production of Hamlet to life in schools, universities, and community centers across the Greater Philadelphia region and beyond. With over 20 years experience of perfecting Shakespeare on stage and inside classrooms, The Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre will immerse audiences in a 90-minute touring production of Shakespeare's greatest play, Hamlet, directed by Artistic / Executive Director, Carmen Khan. The "All the World's A Stage School Tour" will run Monday through Friday, April 17-May 5, 2017, and will feature a post-performance talkback with the actors.

Following a successful school tour run, The Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre will present Hamlet, in partnership with The Free Library of Philadelphia, for a one-night only public performance on Wednesday, May 10, from 7pm-9pm. The public performance will be held in the Montgomery Auditorium at The Free Library of Philadelphia, and will include a post-performance discussion with the actors and Shakespeare Scholar-in-Residence, Dr. Annalisa Castaldo, about why Hamlet matters and why we should continue to share the play with younger generations. General admission tickets are $15 each, and can be purchased via The Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre's website.

The talented cast features Josh Kachnycz as Hamlet, William LeDent as Claudius, Danielle Foley as Gertrude, Jenna Kuerzi as Ophelia, Aaron Kirkpatrick as Polonius, and Ned Pryce as Horatio.

About Hamlet:

Hamlet is the most studied, most performed, and most adapted of Shakespeare's plays by far, possibly of any play ever. There are many explanations for the centuries of popularity, but in the end it comes down to the fact that Shakespeare managed to somehow pack all the ambiguity, complexity and messiness of real life into a story, without losing the narrative structure and focus a story requires. The play deals in grand, universal themes: coping with loss and betrayal, the need to know the truth, the complexity of human desire, the parent-child relationship - and it examines those themes in human sized form.

About The Artistic / Executive Director:

Carmen Khan is the Artistic / Executive Director and Founder of The Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre. Carmen holds a Bachelor of Education from The University of London, England, and a Master of Fine Arts in Acting from The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC. For seven years she was a company member of the esteemed Hip Pocket Theatre in Fort Worth, Texas, where she worked as an actor, dancer, and mime in over twenty six productions. Khan was the co-founder of The Laughing Stock Theatre, an all-comedy theatre, and Artistic Director of The Red Heel Theatre, which was devoted to the little-known classics of the Jacobean era, both in Philadelphia.

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