Dear Liar
5/18 - 9/27/2025
Dear Liar explores the complex relationship between playwright Bernard Shaw and actress Stella Tanner, also known as Mrs. Patrick Campbell. Through their engaging correspondence and ...
Anything Goes
5/2 - 10/4/2025
Anything Goes is a vibrant revival of Cole Porter's classic musical, filled with energetic tap dance and humorous antics. Set aboard the transatlantic liner S.S. ...
Blues for an Alabama Sky
8/2 - 10/4/2025
Blues for an Alabama Sky explores the lives of five characters navigating love, loss, and ambition in 1930s Harlem. As Angel, a struggling singer recently ...
Gnit
6/19 - 10/4/2025
Gnit is a darkly comedic exploration of human folly, centered on Peter Gnit as he grapples with a lifetime of poor choices in pursuit of ...
Murder-on-the-Lake
7/26 - 10/4/2025
Murder-on-the-Lake offers a unique whodunit experience where a shocking murder disrupts the serene town of Niagara-on-the-Lake. The audience plays a crucial role as a detective ...
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
4/9 - 10/4/2025
The Shaw Festival presents a new adaptation of C.S. Lewis’s timeless tale, beginning April 9, 2025. Directed by Selma Dimitrijevic, this production invites audiences to ...
Major Barbara
6/1 - 10/5/2025
Major Barbara is a powerful exploration of idealism and moral conflict through the lens of social satire by George Bernard Shaw. The story centers on ...
Tons of Money
4/11 - 10/5/2025
Tons of Money follows the escapades of failed inventor Aubrey Allington, who hatches a wild plan to escape his creditors by faking his own death ...
Wait Until Dark
6/25 - 10/5/2025
In a New York apartment, darkness and light collide in a gripping thriller as Susan, a young woman who has recently lost her sight, finds ...
A Christmas Carol
11/1 - 12/21/2025
The Shaw Festival presents its annual production of A Christmas Carol, adapted and directed by Tim Carroll, from November 1 to December 21, 2025. This ...
Irving Berlin's White Christmas
11/7 - 12/21/2025
Irving Berlin's White Christmas returns to the Shaw Festival, bringing the beloved holiday musical to life once again. Following former soldiers Bob Wallace and Phil ...
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Past Shows
Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of the Human Heart
7/24 - 10/13/2024
Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of the Human Heart, directed by Craig Hall, features Damien Atkins as the iconic detective facing his most perplexing case ...
Snow in Midsummer
8/8 - 10/5/2024
Snow in Midsummer, directed by Nina Lee Aquino, makes its Canadian premiere at the Shaw Festival. This contemporary adaptation of the Yuan era drama centers ...
Everybody
7/8 - 10/9/2022
This modern riff on the fifteenth-century morality play Everyman follows Everybody (chosen from amongst the cast by lottery at each performance) as they journey through ...
KREUTZER SONATA
8/26 - 10/9/2021
FAIRGROUND
7/23 - 10/8/2021
GATSBY'S JAZZ, SONNY'S BLUES
7/10 - 10/8/2021
THE DUKE AND TWO IRENES
7/14 - 10/7/2021
SHAWGROUND
8/19 - 10/6/2021
CHITRA
7/17 - 9/30/2021
COFFEE CONCERTS
7/17 - 9/30/2021
ASSASSINS IN CONCERT
7/18 - 9/29/2021
SPEAKEASIES
7/22 - 9/18/2021
WHAT’S IN YOUR SONGBOOK?
7/28 - 8/22/2021
Songs for a Winter's Night
12/5 - 12/19/2020
The Shaw Festival is adding a festive twist to its popular concert series. Running DECEMBER 5 through DECEMBER 19 in the Jackie Maxwell Studio Theatre ...
GYPSY
5/6 - 10/18/2020
Connecticut's Longest Running Outdoor Theater. Get ready for an astounding summer of classic musical theater in 2011....
Holiday Inn
11/14 - 1/1/2020
Irving Berlin's Holiday Inn
11/16 - 12/22/2019
book: Gordon Greenberg, Chad Hodge; lyrics: Irving Berlin; music: Irving Berlin; dir: Kate Hennig....
Cyrano de Bergerac
7/27 - 10/20/2019
Cyrano de Bergerac, a play written in verse by Edmond Rostand in 1897, is a timeless story of love, insecurity, and the power of words. ...
Mahabharata Workshops
9/24 - 10/15/2019
Ravi Jain; dir: Ravi Jain. World Premiere...
Brigadoon
5/5 - 10/13/2019
Festival Theatre: book: Brian Hill, Alan Jay Lerner; music: Frederick Loewe; dir: Glynis Leyshon....
Getting Married
5/10 - 10/13/2019
Royal George Theatre: Bernard Shaw; dir: Tania Jacobs....
Sex
6/21 - 10/13/2019
Jackie Maxwell Studio Theatre: Mae West; dir: Peter Hinton....
Rope
4/12 - 10/12/2019
Patrick Hamilton; dir: Rusty Tennant....
The Glass Menagerie
5/22 - 10/12/2019
Amanda Wingfield is a faded, tragic remnant of Southern gentility who lives in poverty in a dingy St. Louis apartment with her son, Tom, and ...
The Ladykillers
6/11 - 10/12/2019
The UK and Ireland tour follows The Ladykillers critically acclaimed run at Londons Gielgud Theatre. The production was recently nominated for five Awards in the ...
The Russian Play
6/8 - 10/12/2019
Royal George Theatre: Hannah Moscovitch; dir: Diana Donnelly....
Victory
7/14 - 10/12/2019
Howard Barker; dir: Tim Carroll....
Man and Superman w Don Juan in Hell
8/17 - 10/5/2019
Bernard Shaw; dir: Kimberley Rampersad....
Intern Director's Projects wknd
9/20 - 9/22/2019
TBD ; dir: Brendan McMurtry-Howlett, Cherissa Richards....
The Horse and His Boy
4/6 - 7/21/2019
THE HORSE AND HIS BOY a fitting follow-up to TRUMPETS’ much-acclaimed musical adaptation of C. S. Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, is ...
A Christmas Carol
11/14 - 12/23/2018
A Christmas Carol is an adaptation of Charles Dickens' most well-known story, in which Ebenezer Scrooge is a wealthy curmudgeon who believes that personal wealth ...
Henry V
7/22 - 10/28/2018
William Shakespeare; dir: Kevin Bennett, Tim Carroll....
The Hound of the Baskervilles
8/1 - 10/27/2018
adapt: David Pichette, R. Hamilton Wright from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; dir: Craig Hall....
Grand Hotel
5/3 - 10/14/2018
Luther Davis; lyrics: George Forrest, Robert Wright; music: George Forrest, Robert Wright; dir: Eda Holmes....
Oh What a Lovely War
7/14 - 10/13/2018
book: Theatre Workshop , Charles Chilton, Joan Littlewood; dir: Peter Hinton....
The Magician's Nephew
4/4 - 10/13/2018
MainStage: Aurand Harris....
The Baroness and the Pig
6/10 - 10/6/2018
Michael Mackenzie; dir: Selma Dimitrijevic....
O' Flaherty V.C.
5/31 - 10/1/2018
George Bernard Shaw; dir: Kimberly Rampersad....
Secret Theatre Events
6/1 - 12/31/2017
yes shhhhhh; dir: itsa secret. World Premiere...
Dancing at Lughnasa
5/14 - 10/15/2017
This extraordinary play, widely regarded as Friel’s masterpiece, is the study of five unmarried sisters, named for Friel’s mother and sisters, (“those five brave, Glenties ...
Dracula
7/4 - 10/15/2017
Professor Van Helsing and his brave comrades must hunt down and destroy the profoundly evil Count Dracula. But the Count is exceedingly resourceful, employing superhuman ...
Madness of George III
4/11 - 10/15/2017
Alan Bennett; dir: Kevin Bennett....
Me and My Girl
4/11 - 10/15/2017
adapt: Stephen Fry from Douglas Furber, L. Arthur Rose; music: Noel Gay; dir: Ashlie Corcoran....
St Joan
5/3 - 10/15/2017
George Bernard Shaw; dir: Tim Carroll....
1979
5/20 - 10/14/2017
Michael Healey; dir: Eric Coates. World Premiere...
An Octoroon
7/16 - 10/14/2017
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins; dir: Peter Hinton....
1837: The Famers' Revolt
5/12 - 10/8/2017
Theatre Passe Muraille , Rick Salutin; dir: Philip Akin....
Androcles and the Lion
6/6 - 10/7/2017
In this delicious Renaissance romp, a traveling band of Commedia dell’Arte players transforms the Hawaii Theatre into a 16th century Italian street, to deliver this ...
Wilde Tales
6/8 - 10/7/2017
adapt: Jeremy Bloom from Oscar Wilde; music: David Cope; dir: Jeremy Bloom. World Premiere...
Middletown
7/13 - 9/10/2017
Mary Swanson just moved to Middletown. About to have her first child, she is eager to enjoy the neighborly bonds a small town promises. But ...
Alice in Wonderland
4/27 - 10/16/2016
This brand-new musical version of the timeless classic takes you down the rabbit hole with the ever-curious Alice to a land of zany adventures where ...
Engaged
6/15 - 10/16/2016
W.S Gilbert; music: Ryan deSouza; dir: Morris Panych....
Mrs. Warren's Profession
4/21 - 10/16/2016
5112 Lankershim: - George Bernard Shaw; dir: Robin Larsen....
Sweeney Todd
7/17 - 10/16/2016
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler, is a darkly gripping musical thriller that has garnered numerous accolades, ...
Sweeney Todd
7/17 - 10/16/2016
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler, is a darkly gripping musical thriller that has garnered numerous accolades, ...
A Woman of No Importance
5/29 - 10/15/2016
Peer through the window of time and see Hester, a beautiful, young, American; spend a weekend at an English country house party in the company ...
Our Town
4/9 - 10/15/2016
Day in and day out, Grover's Corners is Any Town, USA. The paper is delivered, the milkman visits, time passes and life continues. Only when ...
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God
6/10 - 9/11/2016
adapt: Lisa Codrington; dir: Ravi Jain....
Uncle Vanya
5/1 - 9/11/2016
Vanya and his niece work their small country estate, living frugally and keeping their emotions tightly reined in until visitors turn their world upside down ...
Dance of Death
7/13 - 9/10/2016
adapt: Conor McPherson from August Strindberg; dir: Martha Henry....
Dance of Death
7/13 - 9/10/2016
adapt: Conor McPherson from August Strindberg; dir: Martha Henry....
Master Harold... and the Boys
6/30 - 9/10/2016
Athol Fugard; dir: Philip Akin....
The Light in the Piazza
7/5 - 10/12/2013
THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA takes place in Italy in the summer of 1953. Margaret Johnson, the wife of an American businessman, is touring the ...
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