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Murder-on-the-Lake

No two shows of this murder-mystery whodunnit will be alike. That’s because each performance features a different actor in the starring role. That’s the brilliant conceit of Rebecca Northan and Bruce Horak’s latest creation, which recruits a new audience member each night to play the show’s lead detective, tasked with cracking the cold-blooded case at the centre of this story. Directed by Northan, “Murder-on-the-Lake” blends improv with audience participation. Think of it as “Clue” meets “Saturday Night Live.” This production features an ensemble of Shaw vets, including Sochi Fried, Virgilia Griffith and Travis Seetoo. Until Oct. 4 at the Royal George Theatre.听

Blues for an Alabama Sky

Set during the dying days of the Harlem Renaissance, Pearl Cleage’s 1995 drama follows a group of friends struggling to get by as the world rapidly changes around them. At the centre of the play is Angel (played by Virgilia Griffith), a jazz singer who’s just been sacked from her job and dumped by her boyfriend. Soon, however, a blossoming romance between Angel and a Southern beau threatens to tear the friend group apart. Directed by Kimberley Rampersad, this production also features Allan Louis, Mary Antonini, Adam Stewart McKensy and JJ Gerber.听Until Oct. 4 at the Jackie Maxwell Studio Theatre.听

Gnit

This play by the American dramatist Will Eno is billed as a “faithful, unfaithful and wilfully American reading” of the Henrik Ibsen classic “Peer Gynt,” about a restless young man who abandons his bride-to-be and sets off in search of his true self, only to turn bitter and disillusioned. The two-act work flirts with surrealism and realism and, like its original, is filled with wry humour and deep existentialism.听Artistic director Tim Carroll directs this production, staged in-the-round and featuring Qasim Khan as the titular anti-hero.听Until Oct. 4 at the Jackie Maxwell Studio Theatre.听

Wait Until Dark

This psychological thriller premiered on Broadway in 1966 and was later turned into a classic film starring Audrey Hepburn. It follows a woman who is blind and finds herself targeted by a gang of criminals after her husband unwittingly takes possession of a drug-laced doll. With her husband absent, she’s forced to outsmart her assailants by relying solely on her gumption and the help of her cunning young neighbour. This revival, directed by Sanjay Talwar and starring Sochi Fried, uses Jeffrey Hatcher’s new adaptation of the play, which sets the action in the middle of the Second World War.听Until Oct. 5 at the Festival Theatre.

Major Barbara

The sole Shavian work programmed in the Shaw Festival lineup this year, this social satire follows a听Salvation Army officer and her estranged father. A provocative and witty comedy of ideas, Shaw’s play explores timeless themes of poverty, religion and war. Canadian director Peter Hinton-Davis leads this lean, modern revival, featuring festival regulars Andr茅 Morin and Gabriella Sundar Singh, the latter starring as the title character.听Until Oct. 5 at the Royal George Theatre.听

Anything Goes

When you think of classic Broadway, “Anything Goes” ought to spring to mind. Cole Porter’s musical romp on the high seas, which premiered on the Great White Way in 1934 starring Ethel Merman, is filled with standards like “You’re the Top,” “It’s De-Lovely” and its tap-dancing title number. Associate artistic director Kimberley Rampersad is directing and choreographing this revival, featuring Canadian Broadway alum Mary Antonini as Reno Sweeney, a nightclub singer and former evangelist who finds love and a boatload of hijinks aboard the S.S. American.听Until Oct. 4 at the Festival Theatre.听

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Co-adapted for the stage by Selma Dimitrijevic and Tim Carroll, this new production of “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” marks the Shaw Festival’s final foray into the land of Narnia after “The Magician’s Nephew” (2018), “The Horse and His Boy” (2019) and “Prince Caspian” (2023). Based on the first novel in C.S. Lewis’s 鈥淭he Chronicles of Narnia鈥� series, the play with music follows four siblings who discover a magical kingdom thrown into perpetual winter by an evil witch.听Dimitrijevic directs this production, which stars Jeff Irving, Alexandra Gratton, Dieter Lische-Parkes and Kristi Frank as the Pevensie children.听Until Oct. 4 at the Festival Theatre.

Tons of Money

A man who’s deep in debt finds out that he’s the recipient of a significant inheritance. How can he pocket the moolah without paying back his pesky creditors? Such is the premise of “Tons of Money,” a century-old British farce by Will Evans and Valentine (the pen name of Archibald Thomas Pechey). Director Eda Holmes, a name many Shaw Festival regulars will instantly recognize, helms this production with a starry ensemble cast that includes Mike Nadajewski, Julia Course, Marla McLean and Qasim Khan.听Until Oct. 5 at the Royal George Theatre.

Shows opening later this season听

• “A Christmas Carol”:听Carroll鈥檚 adaptation of Charles Dickens鈥� heartwarming story has quickly become a Shaw Festival holiday tradition. This remount will mark the final production at the historic Royal George Theatre before it’s torn down and rebuilt. From Nov. 1 to Dec. 21 at the Royal George Theatre.
• “White Christmas”:听Irving Berlin’s holiday musical, based on the 1954 film of the same name, is back at the Shaw Festival later this year for a six-week run. Kate Hennig is to direct this show about a pair of Second World War vets who fall in love with the duo behind a sister act.听From Nov. 7 to Dec. 21 at the Festival Theatre.听