Marywood University announced that the Scranton Shakespeare Festival is becoming its \u201cofficial resident professional theater company.\u201d<\/p>\n
The move \u201cexpands collaborative opportunities in theater arts, experiential learning, and community cultural development,\u201d the university said in a media release.<\/p>\n
The partnership is part of the vision behind Marywood\u2019s new School of Communication, the release said, which formally launched this semester and brings together several university programs, including theater, film, TV and digital production, multimedia communication, music production and entrepreneurship, journalism and public communication, sports media, digital influencing and arts administration.<\/p>\n
The nonprofit Scranton Shakespeare Festival assembles a paid cast of local and out-of-town performers and technical staff every summer to produce several plays and musicals.\u00a0It also includes a youth ensemble.\u00a0The 15th season ended recently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marywood University announced that the Scranton Shakespeare Festival is becoming its \u201cofficial resident professional theater company.\u201d The move…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[2136,227,201,182,139,28,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-269649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-dunmore","tag-education","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}