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Linda Griffiths’s Age of Arousal begins previews at the Shaw Festival

Friday, Jul 23rd, 2010 by Shaw Festival Public Relations | 0 Comments
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Type, damn you. Type! It’s the way to liberty!
Media Release #19
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, July 23, 2010…. Linda Griffiths’s Age of Arousal begins previews today at the Court House Theatre. Wildly inspired by George Gissing’s novel The Odd Women, artistic director Jackie Maxwell directs this rousing theatrical production set in a surrealistic Victorian England.

Shaw Festival extends run of Harvey

Wednesday, Jul 21st, 2010 by Shaw Festival Public Relations | 0 Comments
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Media Release #18
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, July 21, 2010…Elwood Dowd and his best friend Harvey will continue to delight and charm audiences for an additional 14 performances at the Royal George Theatre. A hit with audiences and critics alike, the Mary Chase Pulitzer Prize-winning play will continue to run until November 14.

Bernard Shaw’s The Doctor’s Dilemma kicks off July premieres and NOTL shuttle service launched

Friday, Jul 9th, 2010 by Shaw Festival Public Relations | 0 Comments
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Media Release #17
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, July 9, 2010…Two of Bernard Shaw’s most provocative comedies open tonight and tomorrow evening as part of the Shaw Festival’s summer opening weekend. The festivities begin with The Doctor’s Dilemma, a satiric piece that poses some very stimulating questions, at the Festival Theatre and continues Saturday with this season’s lunchtime, the [...]

J.M. Barrie’s playlet Half an Hour in previews at the Shaw Festival

Wednesday, Jun 30th, 2010 by Shaw Festival Public Relations | 0 Comments
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Those who risk all and lose have to face the consequences.
 Media Release #16
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, June 30, 2010….Can a life change in 30-minutes? Half an Hour,  J.M. Barrie’s intense story of a woman who’s only got half an hour to change her life, aims to answer this question in real time. Gina Wilkinson, director of last season’s [...]

Shaw’s comedy John Bull’s Other Island in previews at the Shaw Festival

Wednesday, Jun 23rd, 2010 by Shaw Festival Public Relations | 0 Comments
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When an Englishman is sentimental he behaves very much as an Irishman does when he is drunk.
Media Release #15
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, June 23, 2010…. John Bull’s Other Island, Bernard Shaw’s farcical fairy tale, is currently in previews at the Court House Theatre. Artistic Director Emeritus Christopher Newton directs the Shavian satirical story that had King Edward [...]

Bernard Shaw’s The Doctor’s Dilemma begins previews at the Shaw Festival

Wednesday, Jun 9th, 2010 by Shaw Festival Public Relations | 0 Comments
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Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
Media Release #14
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, June 9, 2010….The Doctor’s Dilemma, the first of two productions by the Shaw Festival’s namesake, begins previews tomorrow at the Festival Theatre. Morris Panych directs this comic piece that poses some [...]

Shaw Festival 49th season opens with Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010 by Shaw Festival Public Relations | 0 Comments
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Media Release #13
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, May 26, 2010. . . Through a curtain of humour, great ideas, struggles and relationships will be revealed and examined during the 49th season of the Shaw Festival. Commencing tonight with Oscar Wilde’s witty intrigue An Ideal Husband — a play about blackmail, political corruption and scandal, four other productions will [...]

The Women and musical One Touch of Venus currently in previews at The Shaw

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010 by Shaw Festival Public Relations | 0 Comments
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Media Release #12
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, May 25, 2010…The Women and One Touch of Venus, two productions highlighting varied manifestations of love, relationships and marriage are currently in previews at the Shaw Festival. 

Shaw Festival receives $2.6 million dollar grant from Industry Canada

Friday, May 14th, 2010 by Shaw Festival Public Relations | 0 Comments
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Funding will also impact entire Niagara Region and community partners 
Media Release #11
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, May 14, 2010…Colleen Blake, Executive Director of the Shaw Festival, announced today that the theatre festival has received $2.6 million in continued funding through the Marquee Tourism Events Program (MTEP), the temporary two-year stimulus package introduced as part of Canada’s Economic Action [...]

New version of The Cherry Orchard begins previews at the Shaw Festival

Thursday, Apr 22nd, 2010 by Shaw Festival Public Relations | 0 Comments
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Calamities are happening and I do not even know what I should be thinking. 
Media Release #10
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, April 22, 2010….A new version of The Cherry Orchard by Tom Murphy, one of Ireland’s leading contemporary playwrights, begins previews tonight at the Court House Theatre. Directed by Dublin director Jason Byrne, this adaptation of the Chekhovian tragicomedy [...]

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