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Shaw Festival’s future includes Canada’s most exciting playwrights

Thursday, May 23rd, 2013 by Shaw Festival Public Relations | 0 Comments
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Media Release #16
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, May 23, 2013. . . Artistic Director Jackie Maxwell announced today that the Shaw Festival will partner with some of Canada’s most highly-regarded theatre artists — Peter Hinton, Michel Marc Bouchard, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Alisa Palmer and Hannah Moscovitch — on three exciting new plays.

Get your croon on! Shaw Festival wants to find Ontario’s next great crooner

Thursday, May 23rd, 2013 by Shaw Festival Public Relations | 0 Comments
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Media Release #15
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, May 21, 2013 . . . Can you croon a song like Sinatra? Sing out a sultry tune like Billie Holiday? The Shaw Festival is celebrating the opening of Guys and Dolls, this year’s musical, with Luck Be a Crooner Tonight: unleash your inner guy or doll – a contest to [...]

Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan begins previews at the Shaw Festival

Thursday, May 9th, 2013 by Shaw Festival Public Relations | 0 Comments
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“I can resist anything except temptation”

Media Release #14
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, May 9, 2013 . . . An ambitious new production of Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan begins previews today on The Shaw’s Festival stage. Director Peter Hinton returns to The Shaw for his first Wilde play, following his critically acclaimed Shaw Festival directorial debut in [...]

Shaw Festival extends iconic musical Guys and Dolls

Monday, May 6th, 2013 by Shaw Festival Public Relations | 0 Comments
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Media Release #13
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, May 6, 2013…Already shaping up to be one of the season’s hottest tickets, Guys and Dolls will continue to captivate audiences for 15 extra performances at The Shaw’s Festival Theatre.
Polish director Tadeusz Bradecki helms the vivacious cast of Elodie Gillett as Sarah Brown, Kyle Blair as Sky Masterson, Jenny L. [...]

Previews begin for intimate new production of Shaw’s Major Barbara

Friday, May 3rd, 2013 by Shaw Festival Public Relations | 0 Comments
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“There are only two things necessary to Salvation…money and gunpowder.”
Media Release #12
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, May 3, 2013 . . . A new production of Major Barbara, one of Bernard Shaw’s most celebrated and provocative works, began previews May 2 in the intimate space of the Shaw Festival’s Royal George Theatre.
Artistic Director Jackie Maxwell, along with [...]

Celebrated musical Guys and Dolls begins previews tomorrow at the Shaw Festival

Thursday, Apr 11th, 2013 by Shaw Festival Public Relations | 0 Comments
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“Luck if you’ve ever been a lady to begin with…Luck be a lady tonight”
Media Release #11
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, April 11, 2013 . . . A new production of the Tony Award-winning musical Guys and Dolls begins previews April 12 at The Shaw’s Festival Theatre. Like its musical predecessors My Fair Lady and Ragtime, the Shaw’s production [...]

Stylish social comedy Our Betters opens Shaw’s 2013 season

Tuesday, Apr 2nd, 2013 by Shaw Festival Public Relations | 0 Comments
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“If one wants to be successful in London, one must either have looks, wit, or a bank balance.”
Media Release #9

Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, April 2, 2013 . . . The curtain rises tomorrow on the Shaw Festival’s 52nd season when W. Somerset Maugham’s glittering satire Our Betters begins previews at the Royal George Theatre. Morris Panych [...]

2013 Gina Wilkinson Prize recipient announced

Monday, Mar 11th, 2013 by Shaw Festival Public Relations | 0 Comments
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Media Release #8

Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, March 11, 2013 . . . The Gina Wilkinson Prize Committee is pleased to announce that Krista Jackson of Winnipeg, Manitoba has been awarded the second annual Gina Wilkinson Prize. Ms. Jackson was chosen from a list of 19 nominees from across Canada. The recipient was chosen on March 10th [...]

Gina Wilkinson Prize nominee shortlist announced today

Friday, Mar 1st, 2013 by Shaw Festival Public Relations | 0 Comments
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Media Release #7

Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, March 1, 2013 . . . The committee for the 2013 Gina Wilkinson Prize is pleased to announce the short list of nominees for the second annual prize: Krista Jackson of Winnipeg, Tanja Jacobs of Toronto, Meg Roe of Vancouver and Jan Alexandra Smith of Port Hope, Ontario.

Special Shaw Festival screening of Midnight’s Children supports annual Film Series

Wednesday, Jan 30th, 2013 by Shaw Festival Public Relations | 0 Comments
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Media Release #6
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, January 30, 2013….The Shaw Festival proudly presents a special screening of Midnight’s Children on Friday, February 22 at 6 p.m. in The Shaw’s Festival Theatre. Proceeds from this fundraising event will support the upgrading of much needed technical equipment for The Shaw’s annual Festival Film Series.

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