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Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario . . . The Shaw Festival Box Office
is now accepting, telephone and in-person orders from the general
public for the 2009 season. Fax, online and mail orders began on
January 5.
The Box Office has been open to Members of the Shaw Festival since
November 8 and to groups since January 5. "We are delighted with
the enthusiasm with which our Members and loyal patrons have responded
to the season. In particular the Tonight at 8:30 series,
which celebrates the enduring appeal of Noël Coward, makes 2009
an historic season for The Shaw. For a theatre experience like no
other, theatre lovers are encouraged to book early this season,"
said Executive Director Colleen Blake.
In 2009 The Shaw produces each play in Noël Coward’s famous
Tonight at 8:30 collection.
The Shaw’s 2009 productions represent the first time all ten short
plays have been performed in repertory by a professional company
since they were first produced by London’s Phoenix Theatre in 1935-36.
The plays will be performed in sets of three, one on each of the
Festival’s Niagara-on-the-Lake stages, with the tenth, the rarely
produced Star Chamber, being
the lunchtime production in the Royal George.
Brief Encounters (Still
Life, We Were Dancing, Hands Across the Sea) will be staged
in the Festival Theatre, Ways of the Heart
(The Astonished Heart, Family Album, Ways and Means) in
the Court House, and Play, Orchestra, Play
(Red Peppers, Fumed Oak, Shadow Play) in the Royal George.
On three occasions - August 8, August 29 and September 19 - all
ten Coward plays will be presented in one day, an event titled "Mad
Dogs and Englishmen". Almost 50% of available tickets for these
events have been sold, so early booking is recommended.
The Shaw Festival’s 2009 season also includes two plays by the Festival’s
namesake: The Devil’s Disciple
in the Festival and In Good King Charles’s
Golden Days in the Royal George, as well as
Born Yesterday by Garson Kanin,
A Moon for the Misbegotten
by Eugene O’Neill, Albertine in Five Times
by Michel Tremblay, the musical Sunday
in the Park with George by Stephen Sondheim and James
Lapine, and a limited engagement of John Osborne’s
The Entertainer in the new
Studio Theatre. The Reading Series of contemporary Shavian writers
and a variety of enrichment activities including workshops and seminars
are also offered. Affordable overnight and day packages are available
and make a trip to The Shaw easy.
Ticket information and brochures can be obtained through the Shaw
Festival Box Office or website:
- Toll free in North America:
1-800-511-7429
- Local:
(905) 468-2172
- Fax:
(905) 468-3804
- Internet:
www.shawfest.com
- Mail:
Shaw Festival
Box 774
Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON L0S 1J0
The Festival Theatre Box Office and Retail Shop is located at
10 Queen’s Parade, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. From January 10
to April 11, Box Office hours are Monday to Saturday, 9 am to 5
pm. Beginning April 12, the Box Office is open daily from 9 am to
8 pm.
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