Shaw Festival History

The History of the Shaw Festival at Niagara on the Lake is Amazing!  From the website of the Shaw Festival:

The Shaw Festival Story

As the Festival embarks on the first season of its next half century, Shaw’s compelling quest for the truth will stalwartly remain at the heart of the Shaw Festival; while the Festival will continue to move forward – embracing new writers, revealing new worlds, exploring new approaches to classic plays. The Shaw Festival will showcase the best in Contemporary Theatrical Thought — past, present and future, while still celebrating what Shaw and the Festival so passionately believe in — provocative, challenging stories told with humanity and wit.

 

At its inception, the Shaw Festival specialized exclusively in plays by Bernard Shaw and his contemporaries and is renowned internationally for both single-handedly revitalizing and re-energizing the works of Bernard Shaw (as he preferred to be addressed) and for tackling the vast array of theatre pieces in the mandate period – presenting them anew to appreciative theatre audiences. In 2000, The Shaw’s mandate was expanded to include contemporary plays written about the period of Bernard Shaw’s life, 1856-1950....

 

The Schedule of Performances for 2013 is here

Shaw Festival Phone Number

To reach the Shaw Festival for tickets, information, and other needs just call 1800 511 SHAW

Or checkout their website here -- highly recommended!

Shaw Festival on Twitter!

The Historic Shaw Festival in Niagara on the Lake is on Twitter!  The widget below shows their latest tweets, updates in real time! Enjoy...

Tweets by @Shawtheatre

Shaw Festival Schedule 2013

2013 Season Playbill

Shaw Festival Theatre -- Niagara on the Lake

Guys and Dolls

APRIL 12 – OCTOBER 12
Music and lyrics by Frank Loesser
Book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows

Lady Windermere’s Fan

MAY 9 – OCTOBER 19
by Oscar Wilde

Enchanted April

JUNE 25 – OCTOBER 26
by Matthew Barber,
from the novel by Elizabeth Von Arnim

Court House Theatre

Peace in Our Time: A Comedy

MAY 19 – OCTOBER 12
by John Murrell,
adapted from Bernard Shaw’s Geneva

The Light in the Piazza

JULY 4 – OCTOBER 13
Book by Craig Lucas
Music and lyrics by Adam Guettel

Trifles (Lunchtime One-Acts)

MAY 29 – OCTOBER 12
by Susan Glaspell and Eugene O’Neill

Royal George Theatre

Our Betters

APRIL 3 – OCTOBER 27
by W. Somerset Maugham

Major Barbara

MAY 2 – OCTOBER 19
by Bernard Shaw

Faith Healer

JUNE 13 – OCTOBER 6
by Brian Friel

Niagara: the movie

Niagara on the Lake in October 2009: A Big Fire

Here's wishing the beautiful town of Niagara on the Lake (NOTL) a better October than last year from a fire-safety perspective.  Unfortunately last year there was a tough situation on October 25th 2009, although our compliments do go out to the brave firemen of Niagara on the Lake.  Here's one of the videos:

Canada the free

Canada is often described as one of the most free and progressive countries on the world.  What do you think?