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Shaw Festival Reveals 2026 Casts And Creative Teams For FUNNY GIRL and More
by A.A. Cristi - Nov 13, 2025

The Shaw Festival has released casting and creative teams for its 2026 season, which runs April 2 through December 23 in Niagara-on-the-Lake. Productions include new stagings of Amadeus, Jeeves & Wooster in Perfect Nonsense, and additional works across three venues.

Cast and Creative Team Set for The Old Globe's JULIUS CAESAR Tour
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Sep 12, 2025

The Old Globe has revealed the full cast and creative team of the 11th annual Globe for All Tour, bringing a free production of Julius Caesar to communities across the region. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

MAJOR BARBARA Begins Performances In June at the Royal George Theatre
by A.A. Cristi - May 30, 2025

Major Barbara, Shaw's timeless morality epic, returns to the Shaw Festival. Director Peter Hinton-Davis takes on the three-act social satire that pits charity against affluence, family against commerce, and religion head-to-head with politics.

TN Shakespeare Co. to Present TWELFTH NIGHT in December
by Blair Ingenthron - Nov 11, 2024

Tennessee Shakespeare Company (TSC) will bring William Shakespeare's holiday celebration Twelfth Night to the newly configured Tabor Stage in December.

TN Shakespeare Co.'s 8th Annual Free Shout-Out Shakespeare Series Presents THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
by A.A. Cristi - Aug 27, 2024

TN Shakespeare Co. announced its 8th Annual FREE Shout-Out Shakespeare Series featuring THE COMEDY OF ERRORS. Performances will be held at various outdoor locations, offering accessible theater to the community.

Review: ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS at Shaw Festival
by Michael Rabice - Aug 7, 2024

Who doesn't love a good belly laugh, a groan and a perpetual smile on their face for 2-1/2 hours. That's exactly what you'll be in store for when attending the joyously silly production of ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS at the Shaw Festival in Niagara on the Lake.

Review: WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION at Shaw Festival
by Michael Rabice - Jun 17, 2024

Time travel back to the age of film noir when black and white movie dramas were played to the hilt with overarching mannerisms, full of prototypical characters and not too subtle close ups full of tension inducing musical scores. The Shaw Festival is producing one from that ilk with the classic Agatha Christie courtroom mystery WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION and the result is mesmerizing audiences at the Royal George Theatre.

ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS To Have Shaw Festival Premiere
by A.A. Cristi - Jun 5, 2024

The Shaw Festival will present ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS, a comedy filled with mistaken identities and hilarious antics.

AGATHA CHRISTIE'S WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION Takes The Stand At The Shaw
by A.A. Cristi - Apr 4, 2024

Experience the gripping courtroom drama as Agatha Christie's WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION takes the stage at The Shaw Festival.

The Shaw's 2024 Casts and Creative Teams Revealed
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Nov 9, 2023

The cast and creative teams have been revealed for the Shaw Festival’s 62nd season.

THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD Comes to the Shaw Festival
by Stephi Wild - May 25, 2023

Jackie Maxwell returns to the Shaw Festival to direct The Playboy of the Western World – the play that stoked the fires of Irish nationalism and sparked the infamous Dublin “Playboy Riots” of 1907. Previews of J.M. Synge's funny and enthralling masterwork of the Irish Literary Renaissance begins May 25 in the theatre named after The Shaw's former A.D. – the Jackie Maxwell Studio Theatre.

World Premiere of Damien Atkins' PRINCE CASPIAN to be Presented at the Shaw Festival
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Mar 29, 2023

Heed the call and return once again to the magical world of Narnia. Molly Atkinson directs the world premiere of Damien Atkins’s adaptation of C.S. Lewis’s Prince Caspian.

Cast & Creative Teams Confirmed for Shaw Festival 2023 Season, Featuring PRINCE CASPIAN World Premiere & More
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jan 30, 2023

Artistic Director Tim Carroll has unveiled the Shaw Festival's 2023 casting and creative teams for the Festival Theatre, Royal George Theatre, Jackie Maxwell Studio Theatre, BMO Stage, as well as the newly added Spiegeltent.

Shaw Festival to Present OUTDOORS @ THE SHAW - A Fresh Air Summer Fête
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jun 24, 2021

Artistic Director Tim Carroll and the Shaw Festival have announced Outdoors @ The Shaw, a series of concerts and events scheduled to take place from July 10 to October 9, 2021 on the grounds of the Festival Theatre and Royal George Theatre in Niagara-on-the-Lake. 

Shaw Festival Announces Casting and Creative Teams for 2021 Main Season Productions
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jun 10, 2021

Artistic Director Tim Carroll has announced casting for the Shaw Festival’s upcoming productions of Charley’s Aunt, Flush, The Devil’s Disciple, Sherlock Holmes and the Raven’s Curse, A Short History of Niagara and Trouble in Mind.

BWW Review: The highs and lows of leadership are laid bare in MOTHER'S DAUGHTER
by Isabella Perrone - Jan 20, 2020

England's first female regent is often forgotten and relatively unknown, but in Soulpepper's remount of MOTHER'S DAUGHTER, Queen Mary gets her moment in the sun - whether she wants it or not.

BWW Review: SEX is Alive and Well at SHAW FESTIVAL
by Michael Rabice - Aug 2, 2019

How does an author title a play? Well, there should be something descriptive, enticing or informative to engage the audience from the outset.The Shaw Festival in Niagara on the Lake has gone out of a limb and programmed a virtually unknown play that is rarely, if ever produced. Oh, and the title is simply SEX. And it's author is no other than the infamous Mae West! But did West really write plays? She most certainly did and did so for her own star turns. Written in 1926, unable to advertise using the title, and later raided after running for a year, SEX was almost forgotten. Happily, this highly polished and entertaining production now running through October turns out to be the sleeper of the season.

LET'S TALK ABOUT SEX Gets Canadian Premiere At The Shaw
by A.A. Cristi - Jun 20, 2019

Just shy of a century after her sold out Broadway run was branded an 'obscene, indecent, immoral and impure drama' by a New York grand jury, Mae West's Sex gets a rousing production at the Shaw Festival. Directed by Peter Hinton-Davis, this powerful melodrama begins in Montreal's red light district of the 1920s, then shifts locations to Trinidad and New York City. Overflowing with trademark Mae West one-liners, and with its frank sexuality heightened by Hinton-Davis's gender-bent casting, Sex begins previews at the Jackie Maxwell Studio Theatre on June 21st.

THE LADYKILLERS Makes Its North American Premiere At The Shaw Festival
by A.A. Cristi - Jun 11, 2019

After taking London's West End by storm, comedy thriller The Ladykillers makes its North American premiere under the direction of Artistic Director Tim Carroll. The Shaw Festival's production of Graham Linehan's stage adaptation - based on one of the best-loved British films of all time - begins previews tomorrow at the Festival Theatre.

BWW Review: STAGE KISS is a Delightful Summer Romp at SHAW FESTIVAL
by Michael Rabice - Jun 21, 2018

When the stage directions in a script indicate 'to kiss' any good actor knows it will be 'stage kiss.' That is, kind of awkward at first attempt in the rehearsal hall, but hopefully with practice becomes convincing enough to the audience without the actors actually becoming emotionally involved with each other during the run of the play. That's alot of information to digest for an action that merely calls for two people playing their lips on each other's . Briefly stated, that is the underlying premise in the Shaw Festival's delightful romp, STAGE KISS playing at the Royal George Theatre.