Andrew Bunker

David Mirvish brings the The Shaw Festival's acclaimed sold-out hit production of Tom Stoppard's ARCADIA to Toronto. This multilayered masterpiece straddling time and space, order and chaos, is directed by Eda Holmes and begins a strictly limited engagement from November 4th to December 14th at the Royal Alexandra Theatre as the second show in the 2014-15 Mirvish Subscription Season.

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 with the inclusion of plays by Brian Friel, Tom Stoppard, John Murrell and Adam Guettel.

Come Back, Little Sheba, the heartfelt drama that launched William Inge's career and became a Broadway hit, begins previews today at the Shaw Festival's Royal George Theatre. Artistic Director Jackie Maxwell directs this powerful portrayal of flawed humanity and the enduring power of love. With this production, she adds a third work (Picnic (2001), Bus Stop (2005)) by the writer known as the "Playwright of the Midwest" to her directorial repertoire at The Shaw.

His Girl Friday, John Guare's inspired combo of Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's original play The Front Page and the screen version His Girl Friday, began previews Sunday at The Shaw's Festival Theatre

What do you get when you combine movement, original music, six actors and the darkly haunting words of one of the world's most prolific novelists? One exciting night at the theatre. The Waves, by Virginia Woolf is adapted for the stage by Toronto's own writer/director/actor Brenley Charkow. This world-premier adaptation is set to take place at the Factory Theatre during the Toronto International Fringe Festival.

What do you get when you combine movement, original music, six actors and the darkly haunting words of one of the world's most prolific novelists? One exciting night at the theatre. The Waves, by Virginia Woolf is adapted for the stage by Toronto's own writer/director/actor Brenley Charkow. This world-premier adaptation is set to take place at the Factory Theatre during the Toronto International Fringe Festival.

What do you get when you combine movement, original music, six actors and the darkly haunting words of one of the world's most prolific novelists? One exciting night at the theatre. The Waves, by Virginia Woolf is adapted for the stage by Toronto's own writer/director/actor Brenley Charkow. This world-premier adaptation is set to take place at the Factory Theatre during the Toronto International Fringe Festival.

Ways of the Heart, the final trio in the Shaw Festival's historic presentation of Noel Coward's Tonight at 8:30 collection, opened at the Court House Theatre on Saturday, August 1, 2009.

For its 2009 season, The Shaw takes on a monumental and historic project with full productions of each play in Noel Coward?s famous Tonight at 8:30 collection. The Shaw?s 2009 productions represent the first time all ten short plays have been performed in repertory by a professional company since they were first produced by London?s Phoenix Theatre in 1935-36. The plays will be performed in sets of three, one on each of the Festival?s Niagara-on-the-Lake stages, with the tenth, the rarely produced Star Chamber, being the lunchtime production in the Royal George. And to celebrate this idea for the event that it is, on two separate occasions, we will present all ten in one day ? an event we are appropriately naming ?Mad Dogs and Englishmen?.