Shaw Fest To Feature 'Doctor's Dilemma,' 'One Touch of Venus,' 'Harvey,' and 'The Women' in 2010 Program

Artistic director Jackie Maxwell and producer of the Shaw Festival announced the Shaw Festival's 2010 program this weekend. Hosted by Niagara-on-the-Lake, the festival, which operates in four venues in Ontario Canada features plays by Shaw and his contemporaries, as well as plays about the period in which he lived.

At the Festival Theatre, Morris Panych will direct The Doctor's Dilemma, while artistic director emeritus Christopher Newton will directs John Bull's Other Island at the Courthouse Theatre. Maxwell herself will direct Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband at the Festival Theatre, which will also host The Women directed by Alisa Palmer. Maxwell will additionally direct Canadian playwright Linda Griffiths' Age of Arousal at the Court House.

The Court House Theatre will additionally play Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, in an adaptation by Tom Murphy, directed by Ireland's Jason Byrne.

On the Royal George Theatre stage, Joseph Ziegler will return to direct the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Harvey by Mary Chase.  Eda Holmes will direct One Touch of Venus by Kurt Weill, Ogden Nash and S.J. Perelman, and Gina Wilkinson will direct J.M. Barrie's one-act play, Half an Hour.

In an attempt to feature contemporary Shavians the festival will presents Serious Money by Caryl Churchill in the Studio Theatre, directed by Ed Holmes. 

As previously reported, The Shaw Festival Company recently announced the death of long-time Resident Director, Neil Munro. Mr. Munro died July 13, 2009 at the age of 62 at London Ontario's University Hospital after a lengthy illness. He is predeceased by his wife Carole Galloway and is survived by his sister Anna Munro, nephew John Munro and his mother-in-law Stella Galloway and sister-in-law Jackie Martinez.

For more information, visit shawfest.com.