Kimberley Rampersad and Shaw Festival artistic director Tim Carroll. Rampersad is directing Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella for the 2026 Shaw Festival, while Carroll is directing George Bernard Shaw’s Heartbreak House and Peter Shaffer’s Mozart.

The Shaw Festival has unveiled its slate of programming for 2026, including a production of the musical Funny Girl in the 854-seat Festival Theatre and an as-of-yet-untitled workshop presentation by American playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.

The 2026 season will mark the fest’s first since 1980 without the Royal George Theatre, which will undergo renovations starting at the end of this year until the end of 2028. In its place, the Shaw Festival will stage smaller productions at the newly renovated Niagara District Court House.

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