Stage Reviews: Shaw Festival mixes comedy and drama with aplomb

Piitsburgh Post-Gazette: "The Shaw concentrates on works of the past 150 years -- roughly, from the lifetime of its namesake, G.B. Shaw (1856-1950), plus more recent plays that deal with that same period. This year, the bill of fare has its usual tilt toward comedy, with only Shaw's 'St. Joan' and Tennessee Williams' 'Summer and Smoke' marking the tragic end of the spectrum. But most of the comedies are the thoughtful, mixed comedy/drama associated with Shaw, and even the musicals, 'Mack and Mabel' and 'Tristan,' have tragic dimension."