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Juno and the Paycock and The Mountaintop officially open at The Shaw

Friday, Jul 25th, 2014 by Shaw Festival Public Relations | 0 Comments
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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 [...]

Shaw Speakers Series takes audiences Beyond the Stage

Thursday, Jul 17th, 2014 by Shaw Festival Public Relations | 0 Comments
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- 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

Wednesday, Jul 16th, 2014 by Shaw Festival Public Relations | 0 Comments
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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

Friday, Jul 11th, 2014 by Shaw Festival Public Relations | 0 Comments
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- 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. [...]

What good is sitting alone in your room? Come sing away to Cabaret!

Wednesday, Jul 9th, 2014 by Shaw Festival Public Relations | 0 Comments
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– Aspiring singers are willkommen to show off their vocal flair in this year’s singing challenge –
Media Release #11

Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON (July 9, 2014) — The Shaw Festival invites amateur singers to belt it out like they’re headlining at the famous Kit Kat Klub. The world-renowned Niagara-on-the-Lake repertory theatre company is once again inviting Ontario [...]

Shaw Festival gives back to community at annual cheque presentation

Monday, Jul 7th, 2014 by Shaw Festival Public Relations | 0 Comments
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- 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

Thursday, Jul 3rd, 2014 by Shaw Festival Public Relations | 0 Comments
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- 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

Wednesday, Jul 2nd, 2014 by Shaw Festival Public Relations | 0 Comments
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- 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

Tuesday, Jul 1st, 2014 by Shaw Festival Public Relations | 0 Comments
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- 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 [...]