"The theatre festival based in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont., will take up a three-year artistic residency at Toronto's Harbourfront Centre next year, marking Shaw's first entry into the busy theatre scene on the other side of Lake Ontario. The company will continue its operations in Niagara Region, but the partnership allows it to also mount several productions each year at Toronto's lakeside venue, starting in October 2026."
""There's always been a certain reticence about taking us to Toronto as opposed to drawing Toronto down to us," Tim Carroll, Shaw Festival's artistic director, said in an interview ahead of Sunday's announcement. "But this feels like the perfect sweet spot of giving the community in Toronto enough of what we do to create the addiction. And then if they want to get a really big hit, they have to come down to us.""
"The news was announced ahead of the Shaw's Sunday performance of "A Christmas Carol," which was also the last show to be staged at the historic Royal George Theatre in Niagara-on-the-Lake before it's rebuilt. The venue, one of four theatres where the Shaw operates, was constructed during the First World War for soldiers training in Niagara Region, and was always meant to be temporary."
The Shaw Festival will undertake a three-year artistic residency at Toronto's Harbourfront Centre beginning October 2026 while continuing operations in Niagara-on-the-Lake. The residency will allow the company to stage several productions annually at Toronto's lakeside venue and preserve larger-scale hits for the Niagara stages. Audience composition includes roughly one third local Niagara residents, one third visitors from the United States, and many attendees from Toronto about 130 kilometres away. The Royal George Theatre staged its final show before a planned rebuild; the century-old venue has a failing clay foundation and a rebuild is expected to take about 30 months and cost upwards of $75 million. The festival is reimagining its role and launched a campaign called All.
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