Shaw said, "Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week." In that spirit, the Shaw Festival started modestly in 1962 in Canada's Niagara-on-the-Lake, and has grown in stature ever since. It's the only theater specializing in Shaw, his contemporaries, as well as plays about the era in which he lived.
The 2007 season, which is underway now through October 28th, is featuring 10 plays including Shaw's "Saint Joan" and "The Philanderer," plus Jerry Herman's musical "Mack and Mabel" and Brian Friel's take on Turgenev, "A Month in the Country."
Leave it to the Shaw Festival to make you think a couple of times in a week, and feel something, too. No small feat.
written on Thursday Apr 26, 2007
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