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Links to Shaw Productions in the Theater |
For Shaw productions,
always check first with the Shaw Festival in
Following is a list of theaters that have
produced Shaw’s plays in the recent past, or guides to such theaters, but you
will have to check for current listings:
1. The Shaw Festival (
2. The National Theatre of England
4. The Chichester Festival Theatre
5. The Birmingham Repertory Theatre
6. The Milwaukee Chamber Theatre
8. The Galatea Theater Collective
9. The Village Voice Theater Listings
10. New York Theater Listings (culturefinder.com)
11. The
Off-Off-Broadway Review--- http://www.oobr.com/
12. American Theater Website http://www.americantheaterweb.com/
13. The
Deptford Players-- www.deptfordplayers.org
14. Curtain
Up(a theater magazine)-- http://www.curtainup.com/
15. http://www.canadiantheatre.com/
Archive
of Past Productions Previously Listed on this Page
(from most recent):
Below
are listings of Shaw productions that have been brought to our attention by
theater groups themselves. For suggestions,
please email dietrich@cas.usf.edu
Michael Friend’s
productions of The Apple Cart (May 29th,
30th, 31st) and The
Devil’s Disciple (June 25th, 26th, 27th
) at Shaw’s Corner in
Arms and the
Man by George Bernard Shaw
playing at: Pendragon Theatre
Running:
http://www.pendragontheatre.com/
phone: 518.891.1854 fax: 518.891.7012
pdragon@northnet.org
Candida by George
Bernard Shaw
Running:
playing at: Taproot
Theatre Company
http://www.taproottheatre.org/
204 No. 85 Street
Phone: 206-781-9705
Fax: 206-706-1502 Bo Phone:
206-781-9707
How He Lied to Her Husband (Reading) by George Bernard Shaw
playing at: Food for
Thought Productions Running:
Location:
Misalliance by
George Bernard Shaw
playing at: Seattle
Repertory Theatre Running:
http://www.seattlerep.org/home.html
Address:
Phone: 206-443-2210 Fax:
206-443-2379 Bo Phone: 206-443-2222
Misalliance by
George Bernard Shaw
playing at: Center
Stage Running:
http://www.centerstage.org/
Address: 700 No.
Phone: 410-685-3200 Fax:
410-539-3912 Bo Phone: 410-332-0033
Heartbreak House
by George Bernard Shaw
playing at: Round House
Theatre
http://www.round-house.org/
Address:
Theater Location:
Phone: 240-644-1099 Fax:
240-644-1090 Bo Phone:
240-644-1100
On the Rocks by
George Bernard Shaw
playing at: ShawChicago Theater
Running:
http://www.shawchicago.org/
Address:
Phone: 312-409-5605 Fax:
773-472-9667
None but Heartbreak
House, above
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New (2003): Jerome Kilty’s Dear Liar,
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New (2003): Mad Cow
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New (2003): a production of "Mrs. Warren’s Profession," now playing at
The Looking Glass Theatre on 57th Street in New York City. The show
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New (2003): The Pearl Theatre, 80 St. Mark's Place, NYC, 10003, is
currently presenting George Bernard Shaw's HEARTBREAK HOUSE, directed by Gus Kaikkonen, with George Morfogen
(Shotover), Joanne Camp (Hesione),
Robin Leslie Brown (Ariadne) Dan Dailey (Mangan), Russ Anderson (Hector), Rachel Botchan (Elly), Ed Seamon (Dunn), Dominic Cuskern
(Randall), Robert Hock (Burglar), Nada Rowand (Guiness). Previews begin February 11, opens
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New (2003): Shaw’s Androcles and the Lion will be performed in
Theater_Performances.html#NOVEMBER
or www.HubbardHall.org. Sponsored by the Lower Adirondack Regional
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New (2003): Man and Superman, by
G. B. Shaw, March 25 – April 13, 2003, at the Portland Center Stage. Call
503-274-6588 in |
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New (2002-3): ShawChicago
has announced a 2002-3 season of Shaw’s Too True To Be Good (Nov
2-Nov. 23, 2002), Jitta’s Atonement
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Candida by
George Bernard Shaw playing at: Meadow Brook Theatre Running: 1/8/2003 through 2/2/2003
Address:
Phone: 248-370-3310 Fax: 248-370-3108 Bo Phone: 248-377-3300 Gregg Bloomfield, Managing Director
Misalliance by George Bernard Shaw playing at: L.A.
Theatre Works Running:
Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw playing at: The Guthrie Theater Running: 1/11/2003 through 2/16/2003 Address: 725 Vineland Place Minneapolis,
How He Lied to Her Husband by George Bernard Shaw playing at: Theatre
Southwest Running:
The
Apple Cart by George Bernard Shaw playing at: Cider Mill Playhouse Running:
Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw playing at:
Phone: 215-843-1109 Fax:
215-843-4236 Bo Phone: 215-843-1109 http://www.oldacademyplayers.org/
New (2002): Shaw’s The
Philanderer will be produced with its seldom done 4th act by the
Oberon Theater Ensemble, at the Jan Hus Playhouse, 351 East 74th Street (at
First Avenue), New York City. Directed
by Elowyn Castle, it Opens November 8, 2002. RESERVATIONS HOTLINE
(212) 560-2241. For details, see
http://www.oberontheatre.org/
or http://www.oberontheatre.org/Philanderer.htm
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New (2002): "SHAW COMES TO THE SHAW." Michael Friend’s production of Bernard Shaw’s ARMS AND THE MAN will be at The Shaw
Theatre, Euston Road, Thursday 31st October and Friday 1st
November at 8.00pm, following a successful National Tour. Call THE SHAW THEATRE at 0207 383 4887 or go
to www.shawtheatre.com .
New (2002): Two one-acts by Shaw, How He Lied to
Her Husband and The Inca of Perusalem will
be staged by the Avenue Players Theatre at the Leepa-Rattner
Museum of Art, at the Tarpon Springs campus of St. Peterburg
College campus in Florida. Call
727-823-7529 for details.
New (2002): Shaw’s Heartbreak House will be
performed in Los Angeles in Theatre 40, Oct. 5 - Nov. 10, 2002. See local listings.
New (2002): Shaw’s Too
True to Be Good will be performed in
New (2002): The Mint Theatre in New York will be
doing St. John Hankin’s The Charity that Began at
Home from October 7 until October 27, 2002. Hankin
was called by Shaw “the Mephistopheles of the New Drama” that he and Granville
Barker were promoting in the early 1900s.
The Charity that Began at Home has never been seen in New York,
and was last professionally produced in England in 1917. Consult the
Village Voice and other local listings.
If you mention that you heard about the show on the Shaw Bizness Website, you can purchase your tickets at the
pre-opening discounted price of $28 (regular price for tickets for the dates
Oct 7 - 27 is $35)." See the
theater’s website at www.minttheater.org.
New (2002-2003): The Asolo Theatre in Sarasota, Florida
will open You Never Can Tell on October 6, 2002. To order tickets and for more information,
see http://www.asolo.org/
New
(2002): The Missouri Repertory
Theatre will open with Saint Joan on October 31, 2002. Director
Larry Carpenter is Shaw as the Clerical Gentleman--who not only appears in the
Epilogue, but haunts the play as on observer and historical interlocutor. See their website at www.missourirep.org. .
New
(2002): The Banyan Theatre Company, featuring members of the Asolo
Theatre Company, presents Shaw’s “Don Juan in Hell” through Aug. 25, 8 p.m.
Wednesday through Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday.
$25. Sainer Pavilion,
New
(2002): Brenda Blethyn will be playing the
lead role in the centennial production of Bernard Shaw's Mrs
Warren's Profession, directed by Peter Hall, which opens for a 16 week
season at the Strand Theatre on October 2nd 2002. STRAND THEATRE, Aldwych,
* (restricted view) Reduced prices Previews From 2nd to
9th October, £5.00 off two top prices.
Groups Please call 0870 901 3356 for groups of 10 or more, 10% off top
two prices Monday & Tuesday
evenings, and both matinees. See website
at www.mrswarrensprofession.co.uk
New (2002):
ARMS AND THE
MAN by
George Bernard Shaw. 8
PM, 8/16 and 8/17 at the Pulse Ensemble Theater,
New
(2002-2003): A Shaw Festival,
under the direction of Sandra Laub, will produce a
number of Shaw or Shaw-related plays in Rhode Island between November of 2002
and February of 2003. Jerome Kilty’s Dear Liar will play Nov. 9 &10 in
Cranston at the Hall Library, Nov. 17 & 24 at the Providence Athaneum, Dec. 19 at Lippitt
House in Providence, and Dec. 20 at the Kingston Library in Kingston. Shaw’s Candida will be produced in
Providence at the Perishable Theater, Dec. 4 through Dec. 15, Wed-Sun evenings
at 8:00, matinees at 2:00 (Call 401-364-9990 for more info on all of the above
or email Sandra Laub at Laubcho@aol.com ). Laub’s original play, “Mrs. Campbell! Mr. Shaw” will be performed
in the Westerly Library in Februay of 2003.
New
(2002):
New
(2002): Michael Friend’s production of Arm's and the Man will be in the UK at the Opera House,
Buxton, Derbyshire, 6th and 7th September - the Connaught
Theatre, Worthing, East Sussex, 10th to 14th
September - the Theatre Royal, Margate, Kent, 25th September - the
Arts Centre, Stamford, Lincolnshire, 27th and 28th September - the Brewhouse Theatre, Taunton, Somerset, 3rd to 5th October
- the Vera Fletcher Hall, Thames Ditton, Surrey,
18th October - the Landmark Theatre, Ilfracombe,
Somerset, 24th October - The Theatre, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire,
29th October. For details, see www.mfp.org.uk
New
(2002): Michael Friend’s production of Saint Joan
will open for the UK National Trust at Shaw's Corner (in Ayot
St. Lawrence, north of London) 27th to 29th June, 2002 and then it will tour
September to November. For details, see www.mfp.org.uk
New (2002): Arms and the Man, by G. B. Shaw, August 9 – September 14,
2002, Long Beach Playhouse Mainstage Theatre, 5021 East Anaheim Street, Long Beach,
CA 90804. Call the box office at 562-494-1014
(Choose option 1) or visit www.longbeachplayhouse
.com.
1. Shaw’s
The Millionairess will run from Feb. 1 to March 10, 2002 at The Next Theatre in Evanston,
2.
ShawChicago.
Shaw’s Candida will run
from January 5 to January 28, 2002, at First
Saint Paul’s Church, 1301 N. LaSalle (at Goethe), in Chicago. For reservations,
call 312-409-5605.
3.
The Inca of Perusalem
by G.B. Shaw, directed by Carol Rosenfeld starring Edmund Day. Presented with Blessings at HB Playwrights
Foundation, 122-124 Bank Street, N.Y., N.Y. 10014. 2002--January
25 at 8 p.m..
January 26 at 3 and 8 p.m.
January 27 at 3 and 8 p.m. Free
tickets with reservations. 212-989-6540. For more information, contact the Foundation
or Carol Olsen Day (212-556-7313; dayca@nytimes.com)
4.
Arms and the Man by G. B. Shaw. At the
Jean Cocteau Repertory Theatre, New York
City (Click here for
location). Thru March
28, 2002.
Consult schedule
for times and
dates. Reservations - 212.677.0060 Email - questions@jeancocteaurep.org .
Pygmalion by G. B.
Shaw. On tour with
the “mind the…gap” theatre company in
The Admirable Bashville and Shakes Versus Shav by G. B.
Shaw, by the Medicine Show, 549 West 52nd St. NY, NY 10019. April 11 - April 28, 2002:
Thursdays through Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 5 p.m. Tickets are $15. For information and reservations call
212-262-4216. For more information,
email medicineshowtheater@juno.com
. Or visit them online at http://www.medicineshowtheatre.org
or see their press release at http://chuma.cas.usf.edu/~dietrich/admirablebashville.htm .
Great
Catherine, by G. B. Shaw, presented by ShawChicago, from April 27 to May
18, 2002, at the Studio Theater,
Shaw's Candida
will run August 9 to August 26, 2001 at the Duncan Smith Theater in Holmdel, NJ. The
website for the Holmdel Theatre Company is www.holmdeltheatre.com .
The Mercury Theatre (no website) is doing a production of Arms and the Man
from Feb 27 to
March 17, 2000. The address is Balkeme Gate, Colchester, Essex, UK CO1 1PT. Their box office # is 01206 573948; fax # is 01206
769607. Email to boxoffice@mercurytheatre.co.uk
The Royal
Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford, England
has moved its production of Shaw’s Back to Methuselah to The Pit Theatre
at the Barbican in London, with bookings until April 5, 2001. Click here for
reviews and booking information...
11. Shaw’s Jitta’s
Atonement will be performed from October 19th through
November 3rd 2001
at the Altered
Stages Theatre - 212 West 29th St (between
7th & 8th Avenues). Take the 1 or 9 train to
12. Shaw’s Widowers’ Houses will be
performed from November 3 through November 26, 2001 by ShawChicago at the Studio Theater,
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THE APPLE CART
Shaw's
great political comedy. The monarchy, the world of cabinet
politics, and Anglo-American relations make this a highly relevant play for
today
29th, 30th, 31st May at
THE DEVIL'S DISCIPLE
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26th , 27th June
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The plan is to tour The
Devil's Disciple in the autumn.
The non-Shaw part of the year consists of Feydeau's
Le Dindon
in a new English version called Cock
of the Walk opening at the Mill Studio, Yvonne Arnaud
Theatre, Guildford on 12th February; The
Turnabout, a new play by American writer Lewis Dixon, opening at the
Theatre Royal, Margate on 14th April; and at the end of the year a Christmas
tour of Pinero's The Schoolmistress.