The Shaw's 2021 Season - Shaw Festival Theatre

“This is an expression of faith. Of course, it is impossible to know what the situation will be next year. We may have to change our plans again; we will be ready to do so. But we have decided to be optimistic and plan for a season. This year has shown us how desperately we miss the experience of live theatre. It may well be more challenging to make theatre for a while, but it has never been easier to make the case for it.”

– TIM CARROLL, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

The 2021 Season

MAY 1 – DECEMBER 23, 2021
Tim Carroll, Artistic Director
Tim Jennings, Executive Director

Festival Theatre

GYPSY
A Musical Fable, Book by Arthur Laurents
Music by Jule Styne, Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Suggested by memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee
Original production by David Merrick & Leland Hayward
Entire production originally directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins
Directed and choreographed by Kimberley Rampersad

THE DEVIL’S DISCIPLE
By Bernard Shaw
Directed by Eda Holmes

SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE RAVEN’S CURSE
By R. Hamilton Wright
Based on the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Directed by Craig Hall

Royal George Theatre

CHARLEY’S AUNT
By Brandon Thomas
Directed by Tim Carroll

FLUSH (One-act play)
Based on the novella by Virginia Woolf
Adapted and directed by Tim Carroll

Jackie Maxwell Studio Theatre

DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS
By Eugene O’Neill
Directed by Selma Dimitrijevic

TROUBLE IN MIND
By Alice Childress
Directed by Philip Akin

Holiday Season

A CHRISTMAS CAROL
By Charles Dickens
Directed by Molly Atkinson
Originally adapted and directed by Tim Carroll

IRVING BERLIN’S
HOLIDAY INN
Based on the Film from Universal Pictures
Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin
Book by Gordon Greenberg and Chad Hodge
Directed by Kate Hennig

Also at The Shaw in 2021

A SHORT HISTORY OF NIAGARA
Created and performed by Alexandra Montagnese and Mike Petersen
Commissioned and presented by the Shaw Festival in partnership with Parks Canada
Directed by Tim Carroll