ONE hundred years ago tonight in London, Eliza Doolittle shocked and delighted theatregoers when the curtain went up on George Bernard Shaw’s comic masterpiece, Pygmalion. It was Shaw’s early years in ...
Gingold Theatrical Group and The American Irish Historical Society recently hosted A Scintillating Shaw Party celebrating GTG's acclaimed all-female production of Shaw's Pygmalion, marking the play's ...
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“I’m actually wondering if I need to put a giant sign in the lobby of the Pasadena Playhouse that says, ‘This is not like “My Fair Lady,” ’ “ says Jessica Kubzansky, who is directing a revival of ...
After a century of bastardizing George Bernard Shaw’s masterpiece, the world has finally caught up with “Pygmalion.” Remakes and reimaginings of the 1913 play often demanded a Hollywood ending (see ...
For many years, my summer has been divided into three mini-seasons — the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival, the Shaw Festival at nearby Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, and the Stratford ...
LONDON — Dame Wendy Hiller, one of Britain’s finest actresses and George Bernard Shaw’s chosen leading lady, has died. She was 90. Hiller, who had a 50-year career as a stage star and Oscar-winning ...
Pygmalion, in its equal parts intelligent and spectacular modern-dress production at the Shaw Festival by director Peter Hinton, is a real conversation starter. To be enjoyed fully, at a ...
WILLIAMSTOWN — George Bernard Shaw’s “Pygmalion’’ has been so thoroughly eclipsed by Lerner and Loewe’s musical adaptation, “My Fair Lady,’’ that you half-expect the cast to burst into song whenever ...
In all the discussion about the welcome if uneven revival of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, it seems to me that In all the discussion about the welcome if uneven revival of George Bernard Shaw’s ...
Not as the author intended: Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison as Eliza and Professor Higgins in My Fair Lady Credit: Photo: Everett Collection / Rex Feature At seventy-six seconds, by the hands of the ...