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Enter Stage Right: Shaw Festival to Bring Productions to Toronto's Harbourfront Centre
The Shaw Festival will present multiple productions annually at Harbourfront Centre while continuing Niagara operations, aiming to attract new audiences and strengthen community arts engagement.
- On Dec. 21, 2025, the Shaw Festival announced a three-year residency at Harbourfront Centre running until 2029, kicking off in 2026 with performances starting in October.
- Because the Royal George requires major repairs, the century-old venue’s clay foundation is failing and the rebuild is expected to take about 30 months and cost upwards of $75-million.
- At Harbourfront, performances will be primarily scheduled from October through March, and Carroll said `We just really immediately felt that this would be a great synergy, that there's such a focus on community at the Harbourfront and what they're doing`.
- Cathy Loblaw said the residency will make the Shaw Festival more accessible to the Greater Toronto Area, with free Harbourfront occupancy, box office revenue split, and provincial funding for upgrades.
- With an annual audience of more than 250,000, about a third are local to Niagara-on-the-Lake, a third from the United States, and many from Toronto roughly 130 kilometres away.
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Enter stage right: Shaw Festival to bring productions to Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre – 105.9 The Region
The Shaw Festival is hopping across the pond — just not the one you might be thinking of. 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…
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