The Shaw Festival announces 50th Season celebrates Festival's past and future
My roots are in the past: my hopes are in the future." ~ Bernard Shaw
Welcome to the Shaw Festival's 50th season - one which celebrates the past, while looking enthusiastically forward. As explained by Artistic Director Jackie Maxwell, "This milestone season gives us an opportunity to honour the extraordinary achievements of our past, while creating vivid new signposts for our future, showing how the Shaw Festival will play a leading role in the theatrical conversation of the next 50 years and more."
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, September 21, 2010 . . . The 2011 Season will feature eleven diverse productions that include: Shaw re-envisioned by both directors and writers, newly commissioned works, plays by a new generation of provocative playwrights, re-explored classics and returning Festival favourites appearing on the Festival's four Niagara-on-the-Lake stages: the Festival Theatre, the Court House Theatre, the Royal George Theatre and the new Studio Theatre.Three plays by Shaw on three Festival stages
Heartbreak House
Festival Theatre
by Bernard Shaw
Previews - May 10 Opens - May 25 Closes - October 7
Directed by Christopher Newton
On the Rocks
Court House Theatre
by Bernard Shaw
Previews - June 14 Opens - July 8 Closes - October 8
Directed by Joseph Zeigler
Candida
Royal George Theatre
by Bernard Shaw
Previews - April 7 Opens - May 28 Closes - October 30
Directed by Gina Wilkinson
The delightful comedy that opened the Shaw Festival's first season returns for the Festival's 50th - the classic story of a love triangle about a dutiful wife torn between her pastor husband and the ardent love of a young poet.
My Fair Lady
By Frederick Loewe (music) & Alan Jay Lerner (adaptation & lyrics).
Based on Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw
Previews - April 13 Opens - May 28 Closes - October 30
Directed by Molly Smith
Making its much anticipated first appearance at the Shaw Festival, the glorious music, book and lyrics of the Lerner and Loewe musical that is based on Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion is celebrated in a fresh new vigorous production of this beloved story.
Maria SeveraCourt House Theatre
Book, music & lyrics by Jay Turvey &
Paul Sportelli
Previews - July 19 Opens - August 5 Closes - September 23
A romantic new musical about the legendary Maria Severa and the birth of Fado, the Portuguese music of the street that touched the heart of a people, makes its world premiere at The Shaw.
50th Season also features comedies, drama and a remount of the 2008 hit The President
The Admirable Crichton
Festival Theatre
by J.M. Barrie
Previews - June 22 Opens - July 9 Closes - October 29
Directed by Morris Panych
An aristocratic lord's theories of class equality are put to the test when they are cast out of civilization and left shipwrecked on a desert island. Only their butler, the admirable Crichton knows what to do; but when they return home will this new island hierarchy survive amongst Victorian society? A hilarious social satire.
Drama at Inish - A ComedyCourt House Theatre
by Lennox Robinson
Previews - May 6 Opens - May 27 Closes - October 1
Directed by Jackie Maxwell
Canadian Premiere
Royal George Theatre
by Tennessee Williams
Previews - May 3 Opens - May 26 Closes - October 23
Directed by Eda Holmes
Royal George Theatre
by Ferenc Molnàr
Adapted by Morwyn Brebner
Previews - June 3 Opens - July 9 Closes - October 9
Directed by Blair Williams
by Suzan-Lori Parks
Previews - July 19 Opens - August 6 Closes - August 27
Directed by Philip Akin
Canadian premiere
by Andrew Bovell
Previews - August 11 Opens - August 26 Closes - September 17
Directed by Peter Hinton
Canadian premiere
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