BroadwayWorld spoke with Fernandes to discuss both projects, early theatrical memories, portraying several characters in a fast-paced farce, playing games with audiences, and his experience as a first-time director with the Shaw Festival.
An embarrassment of artistic riches has yet again convened in Niagara on the Lake for this season’s Shaw Festival.
The Shaw Festival's 64th season is expanding with three new productions opening at Niagara-on-the-Lake, including Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House and the farce One for the Pot, alongside expanded Shaw Express bus service from Toronto and Burlington.
The Shaw Festival's production of ONE FOR THE POT, directed by Chris Abraham, reunites the creative team behind One Man, Two Guvnors.
The Shaw Festival announced its 64th season in Niagara-on-the-Lake, featuring productions of FUNNY GIRL, SLEUTH, and JEEVES & WOOSTER IN PERFECT NONSENSE, alongside more than 5,000 Beyond the Stage events.
The Shaw Festival will open its 64th season in Niagara-on-the-Lake with three productions: Sleuth, Funny Girl Starring Sara Farb, and the Canadian Debut of Jeeves & Wooster in Perfect Nonsense.
Anthony Shaffer's Tony and Edgar Award-winning thriller SLEUTH makes its Shaw Festival debut, running April 2 to October 9 at the Court House Theatre, directed by Peter Fernandes.
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.
The Shaw Festival welcomes the Canadian premiere of Will Eno’s Gnit**, a surreal, darkly funny, and unexpectedly moving contemporary reimagining of Henrik Ibsen’s Peer Gynt.
Major Barbara, Shaw's timeless morality epic, returns to the Shaw Festival.
Who doesn't love a good belly laugh, a groan and a perpetual smile on their face for 2-1/2 hours.
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 will present ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS, a comedy filled with mistaken identities and hilarious antics.
Experience the gripping courtroom drama as Agatha Christie's WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION takes the stage at The Shaw Festival.
The cast and creative teams have been revealed for the Shaw Festival’s 62nd season.
Unearthing a hidden gem is always intriguing- whether it be a true fossil, pirates booty, discarded musical manuscript, or perhaps a virtually unknown play.
A good story often bears repeating.
The Shadow of a Doubt, Edith Wharton's drama of the world she dissected so brilliantly in novels such as The Age of Innocence, began previews July 16 at The Shaw's Royal George Theatre.
On the Razzle, Tom Stoppard's vivacious breakneck joyride of mistaken identities, romantic entanglements, double entendres and narrow escapes, begins previews on April 16 at the Shaw Festival's Royal George Theatre.
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.
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