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The Shaw Festival was started in 1962 by Niagara-area lawyer and playwright Brian Doherty. In its first decade, the Shaw Festival enjoyed explosive audience growth, and the company toured extensively in the United States and Canada. Then on June 20, 1973, the Festival Theatre was officially opened by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. This beautiful new building enabled the Shaw Festival to mount large-scale productions which drew national and international acclaim.
The largest is the Festival Theatre, which at 856 seats is still intimate by most standards. Here is where our grand opening takes place each May, always with a flagship play by Bernard Shaw. The Court House Theatre has 327 seats in a “thrust” configuration: staging the most challenging or intimate works.
The Royal George Theatre seats 328. It was built in 1915 as a little vaudeville house and acquired by the Shaw Festival in 1980. Staging musicals, comedies, thrillers, lunchtime readings, and the occasional romance, a popular theatre designed to appeal to people who are not necessarily regular theatre-goers.
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