Ontario, Canada

The Shaw Festival and Niagara-on-the-Lake: A World-Renowned Combination

One of North America’s finest cultural attractions, the Shaw Festival, is located twenty minutes from the thunder of Niagara Falls...


John Bull’s Other Island in previews at the Shaw Festival

John Bull’s Other Island, Bernard Shaw’s farcical fairy tale, is currently in previews at the Court House Theatre at the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada...


Shaw Festival Opens
With Wilde's An Ideal Husband

Through a curtain of humour, great ideas, struggles and relationships will be revealed and examined during the 49th season of the Shaw Festival...


The Women and Musical One Touch of Venus in Previews at The Shaw

The Women and One Touch of Venus, two productions highlighting varied manifestations of love, relationships and marriage, are currently in previews at the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada...


"Napa North" -- Discovering Ontario's Prized Wineries along the Lovely Wine Route of Niagara-on-the-Lake

My wife and I are driving down a two-lane road bordered by vineyards, a scene you'd say was vintage Napa Valley. Except for one thing: we've just pulled off the Queen Elizabeth highway after the hour-and-a-half drive around Lake Ontario from Toronto... to the storybook town of Niagara-on-the-Lake...


From Beaches to Skycrapers: Toronto Is a City of Very Special Neighborhoods

When people think of Toronto, they usually picture a modern skyline filled with skyscrapers and, more recently, a panorama of new condos rising all over the place with price tags in the millions. These are, with a doubt, icons of Canada's largest city, but one of my fondest memories is somewhat different. What lingers in my mind is a charming lakeside scene somewhere "out in the country"...


The Cherry Orchard Opens at Shaw Festival
A new version of The Cherry Orchard by Tom Murphy, one of Ireland’s leading contemporary playwrights, opens Thursday, May 27 and plays in repertory until Saturday, October 2...


Curtain Goes Up at the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake
The Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario is staging the following plays for the 2010 season...