Shaw Festival production history

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Contents 1 2008 2 2007 3 2006 4 2005 5 2004 6 2003 7 2002 8 2001 9 2000 10 1999 11 1998 12 1997 13 1996 14 1995 15 1994 16 1993 17 1992 18 1991 19 1990 20 1989 21 1988 22 1987 23 1986 24 1985 25 1984 26 1983 27 1982 28 1981 29 1980 30 1979 31 1978 32 1977 33 1976 34 1975 35 1974 36 1973 37 1972 38 1971 39 1970 40 1969 41 1968 42 1967 43 1966 44 1965 45 1964 46 1963 47 1962 48 External links 49 Bibliography

The Shaw Festival is a major Canadian theatre festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, the second largest repertoire theatre company in North America. Founded in 1962, its original mandate was to stimulate interest in G. Bernard Shaw and his period, and to advance the development of theatre arts in Canada.

The following is a chronological list of the productions that have been staged as part of the Shaw Festival since its inception.

[edit] 2008

• An Inspector Calls - by J.B. Priestley
• Wonderful Town - music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Betty Comden, book by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov
• Mrs Warren's Profession - by George Bernard Shaw
• Follies: The Concert - by Stephen Sondheim
• Getting Married - by George Bernard Shaw
• The Little Foxes - by Lillian Hellman
• After the Dance - by Terrence Rattigan
• The President - by Ferenc Molnár
• The Stepmother - by Githa Sowerby
• A Little Night Music - music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by Hugh Wheeler
• Belle Moral - by Ann-Marie MacDonald

[edit] 2007

• The Philanderer - by George Bernard Shaw
• Saint Joan - by George Bernard Shaw
• Mack and Mabel - music and lyrics by Jerry Herman, book by Michael Stewart
• Hotel Peccadillo - by Georges Feydeau
• The Circle - by Somerset Maugham
• Summer and Smoke - by Tennessee Williams
• A Month in the Country - by Brian Friel, based on the original by Ivan Turgenev
• Tristan - by Paul Sportelli and Jay Turvey
• The Cassillis Engagement - by St. John Hankin
• The Kiltartan Comedies - by Lady Augusta Gregory

[edit] 2006

• Arms and the Man - by George Bernard Shaw
• Too True to be Good - by George Bernard Shaw
• High Society - music and lyrics by Cole Porter, book by Arthur Kopit
• The Crucible - by Arthur Miller
• The Magic Fire - by Lillian Groag
• Rosmersholm - by Henrik Ibsen
• Love Among the Russians - by Anton Chekhov
• The Heiress - adapted from Washington Square by Henry James
• The Invisible Man - by Michael O'Brien, adapted from the novel by H.G. Wells
• Design for Living - by Noël Coward

[edit] 2005

• Major Barbara - by George Bernard Shaw
• You Never Can Tell - by George Bernard Shaw
• Gypsy - music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by Arthur Laurents
• Journey's End - by R. C. Sherriff
• The Autumn Garden - by Lillian Hellman
• Belle Moral - by Ann-Marie MacDonald
• The Constant Wife - by Somerset Maugham
• Happy End - Music by Kurt Weill, Lyrics by Bertolt Brecht
• Bus Stop - by William Inge
• Something on the Side - (One Act) by Georges Feydeau and Maurice Desvallieres

[edit] 2004

• Pygmalion - by George Bernard Shaw
• The Importance of Being Earnest - by Oscar Wilde
• Three Men on a Horse - by John Cecil Holm and George Abbott
• Pal Joey - music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Lorenz Hart, book by John O’Hara
• Ah, Wilderness! - by Eugene O'Neill
• Rutherford and Son - by Githa Sowerby
• Waiting for the Parade - by John Murrell
• The Tinker's Wedding - by J.M. Synge
• Man and Superman - by George Bernard Shaw
• Nothing Sacred - by George F. Walker
• Harlequinade - by Terence Rattigan
• Floyd Collins - music and lyrics by Adam Guettel, book by Tina Landau

[edit] 2003

• Misalliance - by George Bernard Shaw
• Three Sisters - by Anton Chekhov
• The Coronation Voyage - by Michel Marc Bouchard
• The Royal Family - by George S. Kaufman
• Widowers' Houses - by George Bernard Shaw
• Diana of Dobson's - by Cicely Hamilton
• The Plough and the Stars - by Sean O’Casey
• Afterplay - by Brian Friel
• On the Twentieth Century - book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, music by Cy Coleman
• Blood Relations - by Sharon Pollock
• Happy End - lyrics by Bertolt Brecht, music by Kurt Weill

[edit] 2002

• Caesar and Cleopatra - by George Bernard Shaw
• Detective Story - by Sidney Kingsley
• Candida - by George Bernard Shaw
• Hay Fever - by Noel Coward
• The Return of the Prodigal - by St John Hankin
• The House of Bernarda Alba - by Federico Garcia Lorca
• His Majesty - by Harley Granville Barker
• Chaplin - by Simon Bradbury
• The Old Ladies - by Rodney Ackland
• Merrily We Roll Along - music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by George Furth
• The Old Lady Shows Her Medals - by J.M. Barrie

[edit] 2001

• The Millionairess - by George Bernard Shaw
• Peter Pan - by J.M. Barrie
• The Man Who Came to Dinner - by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman
• Picnic - by William Inge
• Fanny's First Play - by George Bernard Shaw
• Six Characters in Search of an Author - by Luigi Pirandello
• The Return of the Prodigal - by St John Hankin
• The Mystery of Edwin Drood - a musical by Rupert Holmes
• Laura - by Vera Caspary and George Sklar
• Love from a Stranger - by Frank Vosper, based on a story by Agatha Christie
• Shadow Play - by Noel Coward

[edit] 2000

• The Doctor's Dilemma - by George Bernard Shaw
• Easy Virtue - by Noel Coward
• Lord of the Flies - by William Golding
• The Matchmaker - by Thornton Wilder
• A Woman of No Importance - by Oscar Wilde
• The Apple Cart - by George Bernard Shaw
• A Room of One's Own - by Virginia Woolf
• Six Characters in Search of an Author - by Luigi Pirandello
• Time and the Conways - by J.B. Priestley
• She Loves Me - book by Joe Masteroff, music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick
• Still Life - by Noel Coward

[edit] 1999

• Heartbreak House - by George Bernard Shaw
• You Can't Take it With You - by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart
• Easy Virtue - by Noel Coward
• All My Sons - by Arthur Miller
• Getting Married - by George Bernard Shaw
• The Madras House - by Harley Granville Barker
• S.S. Tenacity - by Charles Vildrac
• Uncle Vanya - by Anton Chekhov
• Rebecca - by Daphne du Maurier
• A Foggy Day - music and lyrics by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin, book by Norm Foster and John Mueller
• Waterloo - by Arthur Conan Doyle
• Village Wooing - by George Bernard Shaw

[edit] 1998

• Major Barbara - by George Bernard Shaw
• You Can't Take it With You - by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart
• Lady Windermere's Fan - by Oscar Wilde
• The Lady's Not for Burning - by Christopher Fry
• John Bull's Other Island - by George Bernard Shaw
• Joy - by John Galsworthy
• A Foggy Day - music and lyrics by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin, book by Norm Foster and John Mueller
• The Shop at Sly Corner - by Edward Percy
• Passion, Poison and Petrifaction - by George Bernard Shaw
• Brothers in Arms - by Merrill Denison
• Waterloo - by Arthur Conan Doyle

[edit] 1997

• Mrs. Warren's Profession - by George Bernard Shaw
• Hobson's Choice - by Harold Brighouse
• Will Any Gentleman - by Vernon Sylvaine
• The Seagull - by Anton Chekhov
• In Good King Charles' Golden Days - by George Bernard Shaw
• The Playboy of the Western World - by J.M. Synge
• The Children's Hour - by Lillian Hellman
• The Secret Life - by Harley Granville Barker
• The Chocolate Soldier - music by Oscar Straus, adapted and arranged by Ronald Hanmer, original book and lyrics by Rudolf Bernauer and Leopold Jacobson
• The Two Mrs. Carrolls - by Martin Vale
• The Conjuror: Part 2 - by David Ben and Patrick Watson
• Sorry Wrong Number - by Lucille Fletcher

[edit] 1996

• The Devil's Disciple - by George Bernard Shaw
• Rashoman - by Fay Kanin and Michael Kanin
• Hobson's Choice - by Harold Brighouse
• An Ideal Husband - by Oscar Wilde
• The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles - by George Bernard Shaw
• The Playboy of the Western World - by J.M. Synge
• Marsh Hay - by Merrill Denison
• Mr. Cinders - music by Vivian Ellis and Richard Myers, libretto and lyrics by Clifford Grey and Greatrex Newman
• The Hollow - by Agatha Christie
• Shall We Join the Ladies - by J.M. Barrie
• The Conjuror - by David Ben and Patrick Watson

[edit] 1995

• You Never can Tell - by George Bernard Shaw
• The Petrified Forest - by Robert E. Sherwood
• Cavalcade - by Noel Coward
• The Philanderer - by George Bernard Shaw
• An Ideal Husband - by Oscar Wilde
• Waste - by Harley Granville Barker
• The Voice of the Turtle - by John van Druten
• Ladies in Retirement - by Edward Percy and Reginald Denham
• The Zoo - by Arthur Sullivan and B. C. Stephenson
• The Six of Calais - by George Bernard Shaw

[edit] 1994

• Arms and the Man - by George Bernard Shaw
• The Front Page - by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur
• Sherlock Holmes - by William Gillette
• Too True to Be Good - by George Bernard Shaw
• Eden End - by J.B. Priestley
• Ivona the Princess of Burgundia - by Witold Gombrowicz
• Lady Be Good - music and lyrics by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin, book by Guy Bolton and Fred Thompson
• Busman's Honeymoon - by Dorothy L. Sayers and Muriel St Clare Byrne
• Roccoco - by Harley Granville Barker
• Annajanska the Bolshevik Princess - by George Bernard Shaw

[edit] 1993

• Saint Joan - by George Bernard Shaw
• The Silver King - by Henry Arthur Jones
• Blithe Spirit - by Noel Coward
• Candida - by George Bernard Shaw
• The Unmentionables - by Carl Sternheim
• The Marrying of Anne Leete - by Harley Granville Barker
• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes - music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Leo Robin, book by Anita Loos and Joseph Fields
• And Then There Were None - by Agatha Christie
• The Man of Destiny - by George Bernard Shaw

[edit] 1992

• Pygmalion - by George Bernard Shaw
• Counsellor-at-Law - by Elmer Rice
• Charley's Aunt - by Brandon Thomas
• Widower's Houses - by George Bernard Shaw
• Drums in the Night - by Bertolt Brecht
• Point Valaine - by Noel Coward
• On the Town - music by Leonard Bernstein, books and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green
• Ten Minute Alibi - by Anthony Armstrong
• Overruled - by George Bernard Shaw

[edit] 1991

• The Doctor's Dilemma - by George Bernard Shaw
• A Cuckoo in the Nest - by Ben Travers
• Lulu - by Frank Wedekind
• The Millionairess - by George Bernard Shaw
• Henry IV - by Luigi Pirandello
• Hedda Gabler - by Henrik Ibsen
• A Connecticut Yankee - music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Lorenz Hart, book by Herbert Fields
• This Happy Breed - by Noel Coward
• Press Cuttings - by George Bernard Shaw

[edit] 1990

• Misalliance - by George Bernard Shaw
• Trelawny of the "Wells" - by Arthur Wing Pinero
• The Waltz of the Toreadors - by Jean Anouilh, translated by Lucienne Hill
• Present Laughter - by Noel Coward
• Mrs. Warren's Profession - by George Bernard Shaw
• Nymph Errant - music and lyrics by Cole Porter, libretto by Romney Brent, from the novel by James Laver
• Ubu Rex - by Alfred Jarry, translated by David Copelin
• Night Must Fall - by Emlyn Williams
• When We Are Married - by J.B. Priestley
• Village Wooing - by George Bernard Shaw

[edit] 1989

• Man and Superman - by George Bernard Shaw
• Berkeley Square - by John L. Balderston
• Once in a Lifetime - by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman
• Trelawny of the "Wells" - by Arthur Wing Pinero
• Getting Married - by George Bernard Shaw
• Peer Gynt - by Henrik Ibsen, translated by John Lingard
• Nymph Errant - music and lyrics by Cole Porter, libretto by Romney Brent, from the novel by James Laver
• An Inspector Calls - by J.B. Priestley
• Good News - music by Ray Henderson, book by Laurence Schwab and B.G. DeSylva
• Shakes versus Shav and The Glimpse of Reality - by George Bernard Shaw

[edit] 1988

• You Never Can Tell - by George Bernard Shaw
• Peter Pan - by J.M. Barrie
• War and Peace - by Leo Tolstoy
• Once in a Lifetime - by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman
• Geneva - by George Bernard Shaw
• The Voysey Inheritance - by Harley Granville Barker
• He Who Gets Slapped - by Leonid Andreyev
• Dangerous Corner - by J.B. Priestley
• Hit the Deck - music by Vincent Youmans, lyrics by Leo Robin, Clifford Grey and Irving Caesar, book by Herbert Fields
• The Dark Lady of the Sonnets - by George Bernard Shaw

[edit] 1987

• Major Barbara - by George Bernard Shaw
• Hay Fever - by Noel Coward
• Marathon 33 - by June Havoc
• Peter Pan - by J.M. Barrie
• Fanny's First Play - by George Bernard Shaw
• Night of January 16th - by Ayn Rand
• Playing With Fire - by August Strindberg
• Salome - by Oscar Wilde
• Not in the Book - by Arthur Watkyn
• Anything Goes - music and lyrics by Cole Porter, book by Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse
• Augustus Does His Bit - by George Bernard Shaw

[edit] 1986

• Arms and the Man - by George Bernard Shaw
• Banana Ridge - by Ben Travers
• Cavalcade - by Noel Coward
• Back to Methuseleh - by George Bernard Shaw
• On the Rocks - by George Bernard Shaw
• Holiday - by Philip Barry
• Tonight We Improvise - by Luigi Pirandello
• Black Coffee - by Agatha Christie
• Girl Crazy - music by George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira Gershwin, libretto by John McGowan and Guy Bolton
• Passion, Poison and Petrifaction - by George Bernard Shaw

[edit] 1985

• Heartbreak House - by George Bernard Shaw
• The Madwoman of Chaillot - by Jean Giraudoux
• One for the Pot - by Ray Cooney and Tony Hilton
• Cavalcade - by Noel Coward
• John Bull's Other Island - by George Bernard Shaw
• The Women - by Clare Booth Luce
• Tropical Madness No. 2 - Metaphysics of the Two-Headed Calf - by Stanislaw Witkiewicz
• Murder on the Nile - by Agatha Christie
• Naughty Marietta - book and lyrics by Rida Johnson Young, music by Victor Herbert
• The Inca of Perusalem - by George Bernard Shaw

[edit] 1984

• The Devil's Disciple - by George Bernard Shaw
• Private Lives - by Noel Coward
• The Skin of Our Teeth - by Thornton Wilder
• Célimar (or Friends of a Feather) - by Eugene Labiche
• Androcles and the Lion - by George Bernard Shaw
• The Vortex - by Noel Coward
• The Lost Letter - by Ian Luca Caragiale
• Roberta - books and lyrics by Otto Harbach, music by Jerome Kern
• The Shaw Playlets - The Fascinating Foundling and How He Lied to Her Husband - by George Bernard Shaw
• 1984 - by George Orwell

[edit] 1983

• Caesar and Cleopatra - by George Bernard Shaw
• Cyrano de Bergerac - by Edmond Rostand
• Rookery Nook - by Ben Travers
• Private Lives - by Noel Coward
• The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles - by George Bernard Shaw
• Candida - by George Bernard Shaw
• The Vortex - by Noel Coward
• Tom Jones - by Sir Edward German, libretto by Robert Courtneidge and A. M. Thompson
• O'Flaherty V.C. - by George Bernard Shaw

[edit] 1982

• Pygmalion - by George Bernard Shaw
• See How They Run - by Philip King
• Camille - by Robert David MacDonald
• Cyrano de Bergerac - by Edmond Rostand
• Too True to Be Good - by George Bernard Shaw
• The Singular Life of Alfred Nobbs - adapted by Simone Benmussa from Albert Nobbs by George Moore
• The Desert Song - book and lyrics by Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein and Frank Mandel
• The Music-Cure - by George Bernard Shaw

[edit] 1981

• Saint Joan - by George Bernard Shaw
• Tons of Money - by Will Evans and Valentine
• The Suicide - by Nikolai Erdman
• Camille - by Robert David MacDonald
• In Good King Charles' Golden Days - by George Bernard Shaw
• The Magistrate - by Arthur Wing Pinero
• Rose Marie - book and lyrics by Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein, music by Rudolf Friml and Herbert Stothart
• The Man of Destiny - by George Bernard Shaw

[edit] 1980

• Misalliance - by George Bernard Shaw
• The Cherry Orchard - by Anton Chekhov
• A Flea in Her Ear - by Georges Feydeau
• The Grand Hunt - by Gyula Hernady
• The Philanderer - by George Bernard Shaw
• A Respectable Wedding - by Bertolt Brecht, translated by Jean Benedetti
• Canuck - by John Bruce Cowan
• Puttin on the Ritz - by Irving Berlin
• Gunga Heath - compiled and performed by Heath Lamberts
• Overruled - by George Bernard Shaw

[edit] 1979

• You Never Can Tell - by George Bernard Shaw
• The Corn is Green - by Emlyn Williams
• Dear Liar - by Jerome Kilty
• Captain Brassbound's Conversion - by George Bernard Shaw
• Blithe Spirit - by Noel Coward
• My Astonishing Self from the writings of G.B.S., - by Michael Voysey
• Village Wooing - by George Bernard Shaw

[edit] 1978

• Major Barbara - by George Bernard Shaw
• John Gabriel Borkman - by Henrik Ibsen
• Heartbreak House - by George Bernard Shaw
• Lady Audley's Secret -- A Musical Melodrama - by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, adapted by Douglas Seale, music by George Goehring, lyrics by John Kuntz

[edit] 1977

• Man and Superman - by George Bernard Shaw
• Thark - by Ben Travers
• The Millionairess - by George Bernard Shaw
• Great Catherine - by George Bernard Shaw
• Widower's Houses - by George Bernard Shaw

[edit] 1976

• Mrs. Warren's Profession - by George Bernard Shaw
• The Admirable Crichton - by J. M. Barrie
• Arms and the Man - by George Bernard Shaw
• The Apple Cart - by George Bernard Shaw

[edit] 1975

• Pygmalion - by George Bernard Shaw
• Leaven of Malice - by Robertson Davies
• Caesar and Cleopatra - by George Bernard Shaw
• The First Night of Pygmalion - by Richard Huggett
• G.K.C. The Wit and Wisdom of Gilbert Keith Chesterton - compiled, arranged and performed by Tony van Bridge

[edit] 1974

• The Devil's Disciple - by George Bernard Shaw
• Too Good to be True - by George Bernard Shaw
• Charley's Aunt - by Brandon Thomas
• The Admirable Bashville - by George Bernard Shaw
• Rosmersholm - by Henrik Ibsen

[edit] 1973

• You Never Can Tell - by George Bernard Shaw
• The Brass Butterfly - by William Golding
• Fanny's First Play - by George Bernard Shaw
• Sister of Mercy - A Musical Journey into the World of Leonard Cohen - conceived by Gene Lesser

[edit] 1972

• The Royal Family - by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber
• Getting Married - by George Bernard Shaw
• Misalliance - by George Bernard Shaw

[edit] 1971

• The Philanderer - by George Bernard Shaw
• Summer Days - by Romain Weingarten, translated by Suzanne Grossman
• Tonight at 8:30 - by Noel Coward
• War Women and Other Trivia -- A Social Success - by Max Beerbohm
• O'Flaherty V.C. - by George Bernard Shaw
• Press Cuttings - by George Bernard Shaw

[edit] 1970

• Candida - by George Bernard Shaw
• Forty Years On - by Alan Bennett

[edit] 1969

• The Doctor's Dilemma - by George Bernard Shaw
• Back to Methusela (Part 1) - by George Bernard Shaw
• Five Variations for Corno di Basetto - from the music criticism of George Bernard Shaw
• The Guardsman - by Ferenc Molnar

[edit] 1968

• Heartbreak House - by George Bernard Shaw
• The Importance of Being Oscar - based on the life and works of Oscar Wilde, by Michael MacLiammoir
• The Chemmy Circle - by Georges Feydeau, translated by Suzanne Grossman

[edit] 1967

• Arms and the Man - by George Bernard Shaw
• The Circle - by W. Somerset Maugham
• Major Barbara - by George Bernard Shaw

[edit] 1966

• Man and Superman - by George Bernard Shaw
• Misalliance - by George Bernard Shaw
• The Apple Cart - by George Bernard Shaw

[edit] 1965

• Pygmalion - by George Bernard Shaw
• The Shadow of a Gunman - by Sean O'Casey
• The Millionairess - by George Bernard Shaw

[edit] 1964

• Heartbreak House - by George Bernard Shaw
• Village Wooing - by George Bernard Shaw
• The Dark Lady of the Sonnets - by George Bernard Shaw
• John Bull's Other Island - by George Bernard Shaw

[edit] 1963

• You Never Can Tell - by George Bernard Shaw
• How He Lied to Her Husband - by George Bernard Shaw
• The Man of Destiny - by George Bernard Shaw
• Androcles and the Lion - by George Bernard Shaw

[edit] 1962

• Don Juan in Hell - (from Man and Superman) by George Bernard Shaw
• Candida - by George Bernard Shaw

[edit] External links

• Shaw Festival Online

[edit] Bibliography

Holmes, Katherine ed. (1986). Celebrating!: twenty-five years on the stage at the Shaw Festival. Erin, Ontario: Boston Mills Press. ISBN 0-919783-48-1.