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Royal George Theatre, Shaw Festival
85 Queen St.
Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON
Phone: 905-468-2172
Website: www.shawfest.com
Year Built: 1913
Hours: ONLY Sat. Oct. 18: 10:00am - 12:30pm
The Shaw Festival’s Royal George Theatre presents a modest, classically Greek exterior, but inside it’s all Edwardian gilt mouldings, red walls and golden lions! Built as a vaudeville house to entertain troops during the First World War, this 328 – seat theatre has had a colourful history ever since.
The pedimented, low-pitched front gable, wide frieze board and Ionic pilasters are classically Greek in style. The entire structure, with its two-storey front and rear theatre fly-tower, is finished in stucco with wooden siding on the front.
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