Résultats

      To Comfort or Provoke? The Necessary and Complex Role of Theater in our Chaotic World. Lecture by Jackie Maxwell, director (since 2001) and artistic director (since 2003) of the Shaw Festival Theatre at Niagara-on-the-Lake. Part of series Chautauqua Lectures.

      Part of Shaw Festival Foundation Oral History Project

      Interview with Brian Doherty by Kenneth Reid about the origin of the Shaw Festival Theatre at Niagara-on-the-Lake. Audio file only; no transcription.

      The Shaw Guild is a group of volunteers dedicated to assist and support the Shaw Festival Theatre Foundation. It started as the Women's Committee (1964-1973) and later, in 1974, the Shaw Festival Guild was established when a set of by-laws was prepared and men were invited to join as volunteers.

      On September 18, 1984, in theatrical experiment unrivalled across Canada, the Shaw Festival simultaneously recreated scenes from Orwell's "1984" in three theatres, and variety of locations in the town itself. It involved the entire town of Niagara-on-the-Lake, most of the Shaw Festival Company (including administration, production, and acting ensemble) as …

      On September 18, 1984, in theatrical experiment unrivalled across Canada, the Shaw Festival simultaneously recreated scenes from Orwell's "1984" in three theatres, and variety of locations in the town itself. It involved the entire town of Niagara-on-the-Lake, the Shaw Festival Company as well as a limited audience of 700 for …

      Newspaper photograph with caption:" Shaw Founder Brian Doherty and General Manager Tom Burrows get their heads together over one of the myriad details associated with day-to-day operation of the Festival."

      Black and white photograph of Canada's Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau with wife and India’s Prime Minister Indira Gandhi during opening ceremony of new Shaw Festival Theatre in June 1973.

      Black and white photograph of Queen Elizabeth II walking with Jacob Froese, Lord Mayor of Niagara-on-the-Lake, outside of new Shaw Festival Theatre. They are in a group of people, with Duke of Edinburgh behind the queen and a crowd of photographers far on the left. The new Festival Theatre was …

      The photographer’s name is Robert C. Ragsdale and he was the official photographer of the Shaw Festival during this time. Copyright belongs to the Shaw Festival.

      In 1962, eight weekend performances of "Don Juan in hell" and "Candida" (both by Bernard Shaw) were presented in the Court House in Niagara-on-the-Lake as a part of event title "A Salute to Shaw" organized by Brian Doherty. The enthusiastic response made it possible to continue and in 1963, the …

      On September 18, 1984, in theatrical experiment unrivalled across Canada, the Shaw Festival simultaneously recreated scenes from Orwell's "1984" in three theatres, and variety of locations in the town itself. It involved the entire town of Niagara-on-the-Lake, most of the Shaw Festival Company (including administration, production, and acting ensemble) as …

      On September 18, 1984, in theatrical experiment unrivalled across Canada, the Shaw Festival simultaneously recreated scenes from Orwell's "1984" in three theatres, and variety of locations in the town itself. It involved the entire town of Niagara-on-the-Lake, most of the Shaw Festival Company (including administration, production, and acting ensemble) as …

      On September 18, 1984, in theatrical experiment unrivalled across Canada, the Shaw Festival simultaneously recreated scenes from Orwell's "1984" in three theatres, and variety of locations in the town itself. It involved the entire town of Niagara-on-the-Lake, most of the Shaw Festival Company (including administration, production, and acting ensemble) as …

      On September 18, 1984, in theatrical experiment unrivalled across Canada, the Shaw Festival simultaneously recreated scenes from Orwell's "1984" in three theatres, and variety of locations in the town itself. It involved the entire town of Niagara-on-the-Lake, most of the Shaw Festival Company (including administration, production, and acting ensemble) as …

      Announcement of one performance only "Nineteen Eighty-Four" - a clipping from the Shaw Festival program for season 1984.

      On September 18, 1984, in theatrical experiment unrivalled across Canada, the Shaw Festival simultaneously recreated scenes from Orwell's "1984" in three theatres, and variety of locations in the town itself. It involved the entire town of Niagara-on-the-Lake, most of the Shaw Festival Company (including administration, production, and acting ensemble) as …

      On September 18, 1984, in theatrical experiment unrivalled across Canada, the Shaw Festival simultaneously recreated scenes from Orwell's "1984" in three theatres, and variety of locations in the town itself. It involved the entire town of Niagara-on-the-Lake, most of the Shaw Festival Company (including administration, production, and acting ensemble) as …

      Black and white photograph of actress Fiona Reid as Amanda Prynne in Noel Coward's "Private Lives" with a label: "The spectacular performance played at the Shaw Festival Theatre for two seasons in a row: 1983 and 1984."

      This Theatre was built in 1915 (on the site of Mr. Campbell's blacksmith shop) by Mrs. Norris for the entertainment of troops garrisoned in the town of Niagara-on-the-Lake during the First World War. After being a movie theatre for many years, it is now operated by the Shaw Festival Theatre.