The Shaw Festival
Subtitle: the first fifty years
By: L.W. Conolly
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780195446111
Subjects: Drama festivals; Stage history; Theater; Shaw Festival (Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont.) fast (OCoLC)fst00636528; Théâtre; Histoire; Shaw Festival (Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont.); History
Description: "L.W. Conolly, Shaw Festival scholar and Professor of English at Trent University, takes us on an anecdotal journey in The Shaw Festival: The First Fifty Years. In it, he celebrates one of the biggest theatre festivals in Canada, all the while honouring George Bernard Shaw and the men and women who helped make the Court House and Festival Theatres what they are today"--Http://www.amazon.com.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Shaw Festival at a glance; title: Beginnings : "salute to Shaw," 1962; title: Andrew Allan, 1963-65; title: Barry Morse, 1966; title: Paxton Whitehead, 1967-77; title: Transition : Richard Kirschner, 1978, and Leslie Yeo, 1979; title: Christopher Newton, 1980-2002; title: Jackie Maxwell, 2003-