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Diversity within Shavian parameters: from scholars to tourists, Christopher Newton programmes the Shaw Festival to satisfy diverse tastes.

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From: Performing Arts & Entertainment in Canada
Date: 19960322
Author:MacFarlane, Teri

Newton takes chances by presenting a wide variety of famous and little-known plays, while staying within the Shaw Festival's charter of performing works by George Bernard Shaw and his contemporaries. The Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON, festival draws tourists, professionals and drama scholars.

Situated as it is, in the historic town of Niagara-on-the-Lake amid the period homes and nearby wineries, it would be easy to dismiss the Shaw Festival as just another tourist attraction. But there is no dismissing a professional theatre company that, at the peak of its season, employs more than 500 ...

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