Robert Shaw News

Isadora Now is a one-act ballets program by Viviana Durante Company (Great Britain), presented by DanceInversion International Festival of Contemporary Dance.

The Shark is Broken is now running at the Ambassadors Theatre in the West End. Co-written by Robert Shaw's son Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon, this brilliantly funny play, directed by Guy Masterson, reveals the hilarious and moving behind-the-scenes drama on Steven Spielberg's blockbuster movie JAWS.

“We’re going to need a bigger theatre.” Back in summer 2019, this fascinating behind-the-scenes tale took a bite out of the Edinburgh Festival.

New production images have been released today for The Shark is Broken now running at the Ambassadors Theatre in the West End.   Co-written by Robert Shaw’s son Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon, this brilliantly funny play, directed by Guy Masterson, reveals the hilarious and moving behind-the-scenes drama on Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster movie JAWS.

The St. Charles Singers, led by founder and music director Jeffrey Hunt, will open its 38th concert season October 2 and 3, 2021, in St. Charles, Illinois, with a program featuring the world premiere of a new choral work by acclaimed American composer Jake Runestad.

A new image and video has been released today for The Shark is Broken which opens at the Ambassadors Theatre from 9 October 2021.  

The cast includes Elise Zavou as Red, Maisey Bawden as Mum, Phil Nichol as Granny, Jodie Jacobs as Woody, Ashley Goh as Bo Peep, Raphael Bushay as Wolf and Luke Latchman as Wolfie.

Theatre Royal Bath Productions and Everyman Theatre Productions have announced the full tour dates for Ronald Harwood's highly acclaimed drama The Dresser starring the much loved UK entertainer Julian Clary as 'Norman' and Olivier Award winner Matthew Kelly as 'Sir'. 

As previously announced, Ian Shaw (War Horse and Common, National Theatre) will star as his father Robert Shaw. He will be joined by Liam Murray Scott as Richard Dreyfuss (reprising the role he performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2019), and Demetri Goritsas (ear for eye, Royal Court; Black Mirror, Netflix) as Roy Scheider. 

Directed by Olivier Award-winning Terry Johnson, The Dresser will run at Theatre Royal Bath from 9 September 2021, before dates at Cheltenham Everyman Theatre, Theatre Royal Brighton, Norwich Theatre Royal, Cambridge Arts Theatre, Theatre Royal Plymouth, Richmond Theatre, Malvern Festival Theatre, Oxford Playhouse, Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury and newly announced– the Alhambra Theatre in Bradford and the King's Theatre in Edinburgh where the tour finishes in February 2022.

The Washington Pavilion is capping off National Geographic's six-week long SharkFest with a showing of the thriller “Jaws” in the Wells Fargo CineDome. The movie premieres on an appropriately spooky date, Friday the 13th. It's guaranteed to be fin-tastic!

The Los Angeles Master Chorale, led by Grant Gershon, Kiki & David Gindler Artistic Director, today announced its 2021-22 season and long-awaited return to Walt Disney Concert Hall, following the venue’s closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Shark is Broken reveals the hilarious and moving behind-the-scenes drama on one of Hollywood's all-time biggest blockbusters, Steven Spielberg's Jaws.  The play is co-written by Robert Shaw's son Ian, who also plays his father, and Joseph Nixon.

The Board of Directors of the San Francisco Ballet announced today that Kelly Tweeddale is leaving her position as Executive Director. Chief Development Officer Danielle St. Germain-Gordon has taken on the responsibility of Interim Executive Director while SF Ballet undertakes an international search to fill the position.

With a storied career across stage and screen, Rita Moreno has received accolades ranging from the Presidential Medal of Freedom to the EGOT. And it is also her activism that makes her our icon ‒ on sexism, racism, and the most important social issues of our time.

The CAPA Summer Movie Series, the longest-running classic film series in America, today announced an abbreviated schedule for its 51st series of classic films and cult favorites.

Today, The Cleveland Orchestra is launching its third collection of full-length concerts on TCO Classics, Summer Nights, highlighting some of the ensemblea??s most memorable performances across its first half-century at Blossom Music Center.

What is more fitting story during Covid-19, than that of a man called Murdo who takes to his bed for metaphysical reasons? What will get him out of bed? he cast of Lazybed, directed by Levi Gore hails from Albuquerque, Austin and Atlanta!

Today, The Cleveland Orchestra launches its second collection of concert audio recordings on TCO Classics, featuring performances recorded live at Severance Hall during the Orchestra's celebrated Prometheus Project - a festival dedicated to the exploration of Ludwig van Beethoven's music that closed out the ensemble's Centennial Season in 2018

BendFilm announced today a lineup full of creative ways to see films outside in the comfort of a car or in the open air of Tin Pan Alley. Films in the lineup are a wide range of adventure stories, throwback classics, music documentaries, blockbusters and more.  Several screenings have filmmaker Q&As or post film discussions planned.  In addition to the in-person screenings, BendFilm will continue to offer virtual rentals of new release films through the Tin Pan Theater.  New titles are listed each week at TinPanTheater.com.