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Seventh annual Shaw Festival Film Series to screen acclaimed films and documentaries

Media Bulletin #8
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, November 23, 2011…The Shaw Festival is pleased to announce its seventh annual Festival Film Series line-up. This year’s Festival Film Series will launch with the screening of Woody Allen’s unapologetic love letter to the City of Light, Midnight in Paris on December 3 at 3 p.m. Eight feature films have been [...]

Shaw Festival casts principal roles for Festival Theatre productions

Media Release #35
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, November 1, 2011…Artistic Director Jackie Maxwell proudly announced the casting and creative teams for the three plays featured next season on The Shaw’s Festival Theatre stage. In making the announcement, Ms. Maxwell noted: “I am so inspired by the range of talent we’ve assembled to make up our 2012 Ensemble. This [...]

Shaw Festival announces 2012 season

Media Release #30
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, September 20, 2011 . . . Looking ahead to the next 50 seasons of theatrical exploration, Artistic Director Jackie Maxwell officially announced the playbill for the Shaw Festival’s 51st season today.

Molly Smith helms two musicals wowing audiences in U.S. and Canada

 
 

My Fair Lady at the Shaw Festival and Rodgers And Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! at Arena Stage are simultaneously breaking records 

Media Release #29
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario/Washington, D.C., September 14, 2011…Artistic Director of Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theatre Molly Smith finds herself with two record-breaking shows in North America at the same time: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s [...]

Re-envisioned Bernard Shaw political comedy On the Rocks begins The Shaw’s July openings

Media Release #21
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, July 7, 2011…The Shaw Festival’s 50th season summer opening weekend starts tomorrow evening at the Court House Theatre. The weekend kicks off with the world premiere of contemporary playwright Michael Healey’s reworking of Bernard Shaw’s political comedy On the Rocks. The opening performances continue on Saturday with the lunchtime presentation of [...]

Shaw Festival golden 50th launches tonight with Bernard Shaw’s timeless masterpiece Heartbreak House

Niagara Falls and the CN Tower will glow gold to mark this special evening
Media Release #15
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, May 25, 2011. . .This evening, the Shaw Festival’s landmark 50th season will be celebrated with the opening of Bernard Shaw’s prophetic classic Heartbreak House this evening. The festivities continue for the rest of the week with the [...]

Previews begin tomorrow at the Shaw Festival for Heartbreak House, Bernard Shaw’s prophetic masterpiece

“This silly house, this strangely happy house, this agonizing house, this house without foundations. I shall call it Heartbreak House.”
Media Release #13
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, May 9, 2011 . . . One of Bernard Shaw’s greatest plays, Heartbreak House begins previews tomorrow at the Festival Theatre.
As the Western world teeters toward the tragedy of war, a young [...]

Timeless tale of transformation begins previews and makes its spectacular Shaw Festival debut

“The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she is treated.”
 Media Release #9
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, April 13, 2011 . . . Welcome home Miss Doolittle! It’s so loverly to finally greet you. An innovative and fresh reinterpretation of My Fair Lady brings Eliza Doolittle’s London vibrantly to life [...]

Festival Film Series: new film confirmed and a change in documentary schedule

Award-winning “The Kids Are Alright” confirmed and new date for doc “The Inside Job” 
Media Bulletin #1
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, February 7, 2011. . . . The most talked about movie at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, winner of two Golden Globes and Oscar nominee for Best Picture, The Kids Are All Right, will be screened at the [...]

Shaw Festival Box Office now open for landmark season

Tickets sales for 2011 season strong
Media Release #1
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, January 12, 2011 . . . The Shaw Festival Box Office is now accepting ticket orders for its 50th season by fax, mail and online at www.shawfest.com from the general public. Phone and in-person ticket purchases will begin January 15. Ticket prices range from $24 to [...]