This week in 1927, the curtain fell on a Broadway production of George Bernard Shaw’s medical drama ... the gradual whitening of his nice red beard; his fame in both England and America ...

Back in the 1940s, when American publishers Dodd, Mead & Co wrote to Irish playwright and polemicist George Bernard Shaw, proposing an edition of his collected letters, he said, “There are ...

Characters are never at a loss for words in the plays of George Bernard Shaw. What the French call “esprit d’escalier,” or staircase wit, to refer to those moments when the perfect rejoinder ...

Best known for “Pygmalion,” George Bernard Shaw understood the power of laughter. Of his 65 plays, guess how many were comedies? Five? Ten? Twenty? No, 65. Shaw used humor to comment on ...

George Bernard Shaw, one of the most celebrated writers to emerge from Ireland, died at the age of 94 on November 2, 1950. Shaw was the first person to have been awarded both a Nobel Prize and an ...

George Bernard Shaw wrote plays, more than 60 of them, the most famous being “Man and Superman” “Saint Joan” and “Pygmalion,” which became the basis for the musical “My Fair Lady.” ...

Dublin, 18 November 1915 - It is rumoured that George Bernard Shaw’s new play, ‘O’Flaherty, V.C.’, is to be suppressed. The play is intended for the Abbey Theatre in Dublin but its anti ...