Media Release #14
- Two powerful and provocative works make Shaw Festival debut this weekend -
Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON (July 25, 2014) — Shaw Festival supporters and company members will gather tonight and Saturday evening to celebrate the official openings of Sean O’Casey’s Juno and the Paycock and Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop. After Saturday evening’s performance, all 10 [...]
Archive for July, 2014
Juno and the Paycock and The Mountaintop officially open at The Shaw
Filed under: 2014 Media Releases, Media Releases | Tags: 2014 Season, Alana Hibbert, Bernard Shaw, Jim Mezon, Juno and the Paycock, Katori Hall, Kevin Hanchard, Mary Haney, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Royal George Theatre, Sean O'Casey, Shaw Festival, Studio Theatre, The Mountaintop
Shaw Speakers Series takes audiences Beyond the Stage
Filed under: 2014 Media Releases, Media Releases | Tags: 2014 Season, At the Heart of the Matter, Beyond the Stage, Blood: The Stuff of Life, Lawrence Hill, Lucy Waverman, Margaret MacMillan, Paul Gross, Speaker's Series, The War to End All Wars?, Thought for Food
- Margaret MacMillan and Paul Gross headline first weekend event exploring WWI -
Media Release #13
Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON (July 17, 2014) — The Shaw Festival opens their stages to brilliant guest speakers and artists whose insights go Beyond the Stage and demonstrate new ways of seeing and thinking about the world through literature, theatre [...]
Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop makes Shaw Festival debut at Studio Theatre
Filed under: 2014 Newsroom Post, Newroom Post | Tags: 2014 Season, Katori Hall, Martin Luther King Jr., Niagara region, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Shaw Festival, Studio Theatre, The Mountaintop
Newsroom Post #11
Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON (July 16, 2014) — The Mountaintop, Katori Hall’s powerful and provocative portrait of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on the eve of his assassination on April 4, 1968 begins previews today in The Shaw’s Studio Theatre. Presented in 2013 as part of The Shaw’s Reading Series, this season’s full production of [...]
Edward Bond’s The Sea first of three shows to officially open this weekend
Filed under: 2014 Media Releases, Media Releases | Tags: 2014 Season, Bernard Shaw, Court House Theatre, Edward Bond, Festival Theatre, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Opening, Shaw Festival, Tennessee Williams
- July opening weekend culminates with new production of Shaw’s The Philanderer –
Media Release #12
Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON (July 11, 2014) — The Shaw Festival celebrates the official openings of three more productions beginning Friday evening at the Court House Theatre with The Sea, a provocative mix of drama and comedy by Edward Bond. [...]
Shaw Festival gives back to community at annual cheque presentation
Filed under: 2014 Media Bulletins, Media Bulletins | Tags: 2014 Season, community support, Niagara region, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Shaw Festival, Town Previews
- Fifteen local groups benefited from this season’s town previews –
Media Bulletin #7
Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON (July 7, 2014) — Local Niagara-on-the-Lake charitable organizations once again benefited from the proceeds raised through the Shaw Festival’s Town Previews Program. Artistic Director Jackie Maxwell and Executive Director Elaine Calder hosted a cheque presentation on Friday, July 4, 2014 [...]
Revived lunchtime A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur in previews at Shaw Festival
Filed under: 2014 Newsroom Post, Newroom Post | Tags: 2014 Season, Court House Theatre, Creve Coeur, lunchtime, Niagara region, Niagara-on-the-Lake, one-act, Shaw Festival, Tennessee Williams
- Tender one-act comic story of heartbreak and healing now on stage at Court House Theatre -
Newsroom Post #10
Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON (July 3, 2014) — The Shaw Festival brings Tennessee Williams’s forgotten one-act play A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur back to the stage. Directed by Blair Williams, this rarely seen comical charmer is [...]
Sean O’Casey’s Juno and the Paycock in previews at the Royal George Theatre
Filed under: 2014 Newsroom Post, Newroom Post | Tags: 2014 Season, Juno, Niagara region, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Paycock, Royal George Theatre, Sean O'Casey, Shaw Festival
- Potent mix of humour, drama and politics in one of the great plays of the 20th century –
Newsroom Post #9
Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON (July 2, 2014) — Juno and the Paycock, one of the most performed and highly regarded plays of the 20th century, is currently in previews at the Shaw Festival. Directed [...]
Bernard Shaw’s The Philanderer now in previews at the Festival Theatre
Filed under: 2014 Newsroom Post, Newroom Post | Tags: 2014 Season, Bernard Shaw, Festival Theatre, Lisa Peterson, Niagara region, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Shaw Festival, The Philanderer, Third Act
- Comedy about love, marriage and the sexes staged as Shaw intended – with originally abandoned third Act -
Newsroom Post #8
Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON (July 1, 2014) — A new production of Bernard Shaw’s The Philanderer, staged with the original third Act, is now in previews at the Festival Theatre. Celebrated American director Lisa Peterson, making her [...]