The poster for the original stage production of One Touch of Venus, the only musical on the 2010 playbill Sometimes it’s a challenge to figure out what’s really going on at the Shaw Festiv… more →
EMSWORTHemsworth wrote 3 weeks ago: The poster for the original stage production of One Touch of Venus, the only musical on the 2010 pla … more →
mymysays wrote 2 months ago: Joy in the Week of August 31 Gray Powell and Deborah Hay in "Born Yesterday" 1. Born Yeste … more →
emsworth wrote 3 months ago: Bernard Shaw Ever wonder where “nothing personal, just business” came from? You probably … more →
emsworth wrote 3 months ago: We hesitated before committing to The Devil’s Disciple this year because, frankly, we failed t … more →
emsworth wrote 3 months ago: We’re tired of being assured by essayists in theater programs that the vintage plays we’ … more →
emsworth wrote 3 months ago: The audiences at the Shaw Festival tend to be older, so we’re guessing that quite a few of the … more →
emsworth wrote 3 months ago: The Shaw Festival should have been putting on plays like John Osborne’s The Entertainer long a … more →
emsworth wrote 3 months ago: Patrick McManus was superb in Family Affair and even better in Ways and Means Some folks saw all fou … more →
emsworth wrote 4 months ago: The Peppers are a bit old in the tooth to pass for a pair of young sailors After seeing three of the … more →
emsworth wrote 4 months ago: We wouldn’t for the world have missed Star Chamber, the one-act Noël Coward play that the Shaw … more →
emsworth wrote 4 months ago: We were brushing up on Julius Caesar ahead of seeing the play at the Stratford Festival (Stratford, … more →
emsworth wrote 5 months ago: Anthony Malarky and Julie Martell as Louis the baker and Dot On our way home from Niagara-on-the-Lak … more →
emsworth wrote 5 months ago: Love blooms in a railway coffee shop: Patrick Galligan and Deborah Hay in Still Life The first of th … more →
Jaime Weinman wrote 5 months ago: When a writer’s work seems inseparable from his personality, what’s left when you do try to separate … more →
emsworth wrote 6 months ago: Thanks to the battalions of gardeners employed by the local municipality, Queen Street was colorful … more →
Don wrote 6 months ago: I got this quote in today’s mail and it made me grateful for my own life and even the past two … more →
latoscanadicarlottafyi wrote 6 months ago: Since you are here, we thought we’d simply the Shaw Festival Calendar for you and give you dir … more →
Faith wrote 7 months ago: The Shaw Festival hasn’t held my interest for these last couple seasons, but I got an offer fo … more →
emsworth wrote 7 months ago: Wilde Seeing The Importance of Being Earnest at the Shaw Festival in 2004 persuaded us that P. G. Wo … more →