(Photo Courtesy of Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival)

There is still time to enjoy the long-running summertime Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival at DeSales University in the Lehigh Valley, Pa.

The musical The Color Purple runs until August 4. This year’s “Extreme Shakespeare” play is the romantic adventure Cymbeline, also running until August 4. A children’s show, Winnie-the-Pooh & Friends, runs until August 2, and “Shakespeare for Kids” until August 3.

This season, co-leaders Jason King Jones and Casey William Gallagher curated a lineup centered around the theme of “Persistence of Love,” reflected in each play or musical selected.

As such, the Festival’s 33rd season, which began on May 29, featured the Shakespeare plays The Comedy of Errors and The Merry Wives of Windsor, along with the musical The Last Five Years, and, in a new collaboration, the festival presented Theater 1812’s production of The Play That Goes Wrong.

The Color Purple, adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Alice Walker, has a book by Marsha Norman; music and lyrics by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis, and Stephen Bray; and is directed by Amina Robinson.

Shakespeare’s Cymbeline, as part of the group’s Extreme Shakespeare production, was rehearsed akin to the way Shakespeare’s company would have, with actors learning their lines, rehearsing on their own, wearing what can they can find, and opening in a short time span with no director and no designers.

The Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, founded in 1992 as the official Shakespeare Festival of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, performs on two stages at the Labuda Center for the Performing Arts on the campus of DeSales University in Center Valley, Pa. According to its website, it is the only professional equity theater of its scope and scale within a 50-mile radius, and one of only a handful of theaters producing Shakespeare, musicals, classics, and contemporary plays. A not-for-profit theater, it usually offers 150 performances over 10 weeks, attracting patrons from more than 30 states.

For information and tickets, go pashakespeare.org.