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Cast change announced for The Light in the Piazza and Trifles

Media Bulletin #8
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, April 22, 2013 . . . The Shaw Festival is pleased to announce the return of Jeff Irving to its stages. He will play the young romantic lead Fabrizio in The Light in the Piazza and also appear in the lunchtime production of Trifles. A well known member of The Shaw’s [...]

Works from within the Festival’s original mandate period feature stellar Shaw Festival acting talents

Media Release #30
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, November 26, 2012…Unsurpassed in presenting works from within the Festival’s original mandate period, the talented Shaw Festival acting Ensemble this season takes on the characters and worlds of Oscar Wilde, W. Somerset Maugham, Elizabeth von Arnim via Matthew Barber, Susan Glaspell and Eugene O’Neill.

Celebrated Shaw actors give voice to contemporary theatre’s most illustrious playwrights

Media Release #29
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, November 21, 2012…For the last decade, the Shaw Festival has been introducing contemporary theatre’s most illustrious playwrights into the playbill alongside their classical forebears. Like Bernard Shaw himself, these writers delight in questioning assumptions, subverting expectations and creating compelling theatre that unites head and heart. The 2013 season goes even further [...]

Shaw Festival announces 2013 season

Media Release #25
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, September 24, 2012 . . . Today’s announcement by Artistic Director Jackie Maxwell of the Shaw Festival’s 2013 season introduces new and provocative conversations for its 52nd season. In a playbill rich with culture clashes, magical transformations and dazzling ideas, The Shaw continues its theatrical exploration of the mystery and beauty [...]

Shaw Festival’s August openings feature Hedda Gabler and Helen’s Necklace

Media Release #22
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, August 9, 2012…Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler and Carole Fréchette’s Helen’s Necklace make their official debuts tomorrow and Saturday night, respectively, at the Shaw Festival. Opening Friday evening at the Court House Theatre is Hedda Gabler, the powerful and dramatic Ibsen piece presented in a new version by writer/director Richard Eyre. The [...]

New version of Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler begins previews tonight at the Shaw Festival

“These things come over me, just like that, suddenly. And I can’t hold back.”
Media Release #21
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, July 25, 2012….Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler, in a dazzling translation by writer/director Richard Eyre, begins previews tonight at the Shaw Festival’s Court House Theatre.
A villain; a victim; a heroine; the female Hamlet; a playwright’s response to an emerging [...]

Shaw’s The Millionairess begins Shaw Festival July openings

Media Release #19
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, July 5, 2012…Three days of Shaw Festival summer openings start tonight at the Court House Theatre with Bernard Shaw’s comedy The Millionairess. Opening performances continue on Friday at the Royal George Theatre with the evening presentation of William Inge’s moving drama Come Back, Little Sheba. On Saturday, the Court House Theatre [...]

Shaw’s comedy The Millionairess begins previews tomorrow

“I am the most interesting woman in England.”

Media Release #17
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, June 19, 2012 . . . Epifania Ognisanti di Parerga, Bernard Shaw’s superwoman, begins the search for her match in love and life tomorrow at the Shaw Festival’s Court House Theatre in The Millionairess. Director Blair Williams takes a contemporary approach to this enduring [...]

Githa Sowerby gem A Man and Some Women begins previews today

“I’ve kept you because you’re women. I’ve held my tongue because you’re women. I bully you?
You’re the bullies.”

Media Release #7
 
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, April 27, 2012 . . . A Man and Some Women, the bold portrayal of family dynamics from the writer of The Stepmother and Rutherford & Son, previews today at the Court House Theatre.

Principal roles and creative teams for Shaw Festival’s Court House Theatre productions announced

Media Release #37
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, November 7, 2011…Artistic Director Jackie Maxwell is pleased to announce the principal casting and creative teams for The Shaw’s Court House Theatre productions.