For All - Shaw Festival Theatre

Are you curious about what goes on backstage and who works there? Here’s your chance to find out.

Call 1-800-511-7429 to book your spot.

Focusing on four plays, gain access to the creative minds who bring our plays to life. Includes lunches, presentations and parking. Cost does not include theatre tickets.

In teams of 2-8 people, test your knowledge of holiday theatre and film musicals in this 40-minute trivia challenge. Example: Which crooner sold over 100 million copies of Irving Berlin’s White Christmas? Bing Crosby. Easy, right?! Gift for the winning team.

A playful intro to the basics of tap dance with an actor from Holiday Inn. Fun for ages 10+ and all experience levels.

Up close and personal … our 2019 Shaw directors and designers share their insights and visions.

The Horse and His Boy (April 6), Brigadoon (May 4), The Glass Menagerie (May 22),
The Ladykillers (June 11), Sex (June 21), Cyrano de Bergerac (July 30),
Man and Superman (Aug 15), Holiday Inn (Nov 15)

Are you curious about what goes on backstage and who works there? Here’s your chance to find out.

Call 1-800-511-7429 to book your spot.

Join Shaw Music Director Paul Sportelli to learn about and sing-along to music theatre classics including Brigadoon.

An informal question-and-answer session with actors following Tuesday evening performances (except those marked P and OC), in all three theatres.

A Company member introduces that evening’s play. For all Festival Theatre performances except those marked P and OC.

Following Tuesday, Friday and Saturday matinees in all theatres and all The Russian Play performances (except those marked P and OC), join fellow patrons for an engaging facilitated discussion.

Sponsored by:
Riverview Cellars Estate Winery
Pratt & Whitney Canada

Deeper Dialogues are opportunities for artists and our patrons to delve deeply into a topic that relates to theatre, culture, and society.

• August 24 – Re-Imagining Classical Theatre with André Sills (Ensemble), Graeme Somerville (Ensemble) and Diana Donnelly (Director/Ensemble)
• September 21 – Bernard Shaw’s Life Force–Resist it or relish it? What doe Shaw tell us about Marriage, Morals, and Modernity? with Dr Leonard Conolly (Resident Shaw Scholar)
• October 5 – Creating Mahabharata with Sharada K Eswar (Performer/Storyteller)

In teams of 2-8 people, test your knowledge of holiday theatre and film musicals in this 40-minute trivia challenge. Example: Which crooner sold over 100 million copies of Irving Berlin’s White Christmas? Bing Crosby. Easy, right?! Gift for the winning team.

An hour-long guided tour of the Festival Theatre. Some dates not available – see calendar for details.

Our brilliant Ensemble members take you back to the basics, allowing your imagination to soar as they speak. The choice of plays is always hugely varied in form and content and some have raised cheers while others caused tears, but several of them have ended up as full productions in later seasons.

Call 1-800-511-7429 to book your spot.

A Sunday morning concert performed by members of the Shaw Festival Orchestra.