Farce is a sub-genre of dramatic comedy with the intent of making an audience laugh.  The story line is the device that gets the amusement...

Many know Mae West as a sex symbol and purveyor of bawdy double entendre, as well as an advocate of sexual independence.  Did you know th...

George Bernard Shaw is noted for his stands on women’s liberation, religiosity and the British cast system.  In his “Getting Married” the ...

When theatrical mysteries are thought of the works of Agatha Christie (“The Mousetrap”), Anthony Schaffer (“Sleuth”), Tim Kelly (“The Butl...

The Golden Age of the American theatre, which is generally identified as from 1943 to 1975, starting with “Oklahoma” and ending with “Chor...

The modern era of theater was highlighted by the writings of Arthur Miller, William Inge and Tennessee Williams.  Miller, the sophisticate...

As I walked down the main street in Niagara-on-the-Lake in Ontario, Canada, I had several people look at my black t-shirt with the whit...

It’s still cold and snowing, especially in the eastern provinces of our neighbors to the north, but things are heating up in Niagara-on...

The Shaw Festival, located in Niagara-on-the Lake, is often like being in downtown Cleveland on game day.   Lots of 216/440 residents migr...

“Nations are like bees; they cannot kill except at the cost of their own lives.” Satirist and playwright George Bernard Shaw is noted for ...

“The test of a man’s or woman’s breeding is how they behave in   quarrel.   Anybody can behave well when thin...

“I am an advocate for state illusion; stage realism is a contradiction in terms (G. Bernard Shaw) Sarah Ruhl, an American playwright and e...

“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing (G. Bernard Shaw) “The Chronicles of Narnia” is a series o...

“The great advantage of a hotel is that it’s a refuge from home (G. Bernard Shaw) “Grand Hotel, Berlin. Always the same – people come, peo...

“You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.”  (G. Bernard Shaw) World War I, “the war to end a...

The Shaw Festival, located in Niagara-on-the Lake, is often like being in downtown Cleveland on game day.   Lots of 216/440 residents migr...

Canada's Shaw Festival is a tribute to George Bernard Shaw and his writing contemporaries.   
Many Clevelanders take the four-hour dr...


 A yearly highlight of the Shaw Festival season are their lunch-time hour productions which are staged in the intimate Court House Theatr...