In 2008/9, they engaged in intensive planning with the board of directors and cultural and community leaders and decided to re-brand and rename the company to better reflect their programming.
In addition, The Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival creates its own original curriculum for each play they produce.
Technically part of the Open Door Project, the Young Professionals Company is a sort of training ground for up and coming actors new to the Philadelphia theatre community.
Now known as the Classical Acting Academy, it offers the same great opportunities for young actors and the audiences.
2008 Romeo and Juliet, Pericles, Prince of Tyre 2007 Othello, The Taming of the Shrew 2006 The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) 2005 Hamlet, As You Like It 2004 Julius Caesar, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) 2003 Othello, Macbeth 2002 A Midsummer Night's Dream, King Lear, Cymbeline 2001 Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure, Romeo and Juliet 2000 The Taming of the Shrew, The Winter's Tale, Hamlet