Committed to exploring the ideas of George Bernard Shaw

Join us in Dublin!

June 5-7, 2024

The next ISS Conference, “Bernard Shaw’s Ireland: An International Perspective,” will take place at the Museum of Literature Ireland in Dublin from June 5-7.

Welcome to the International Shaw Society

A community of scholars, theater practitioners, and enthusiasts committed to understanding and promoting the ideas and works of George Bernard Shaw. 

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Shaw Symposium – SCHEDULE

Revel in the works of Bernard Shaw and contemporaries with thought-provoking presentations curated by the International Shaw Society and stimulating sessions with Shaw Festival artists over three days. Co-hosted by the Shaw Festival and International Shaw Society. To

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ISS Summer Symposium

The International Shaw Society’s Summer Symposium will convene in Niagara-on-the-Lake, ONT, July 19-21, 2024. Because the conference in Dublin – “Bernard Shaw’s Ireland,” June 5-7 – will serve as a primary site of Shaw scholarship

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Sondheim’s The Frogs (Reviews)

Here are some reviews of Sondheim’s musical adaptation of Aristophanes’s The Frogs, where Shaw and Shakespeare take the place of Euripides and Aeschylus, at Lincoln’s Center Rose Theatre. New York Stage Review Frequent Business Traveller

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Join us in Dublin!

The next ISS Conference, “Bernard Shaw’s Ireland: An International Perspective,” will take place at the Museum of Literature Ireland in Dublin from June 5-7, 2024. This is the second ISS conference to be held in

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2024 President’s Message

As a society of Bernard Shaw enthusiasts, theater practitioners, and scholars, we are dedicated to disseminating the ideas Shaw expressed in his books, both fiction and non-fiction, essays, speeches and particularly in his plays for

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