As a card-carrying Broadway critic with more than 70 years of theatre- going under my belt, I learned a thing or two about Canadian theatre in three intensive days of matinee and evening observation, first at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, then at the Niagara-on-the-Lake Shaw Festival, in mid-August.
The most important thing I learned is that Christopher Plummer is not the only Canadian actor of note trodding the boards. The second is that between plane and rental car from New York City to Buffalo Airport to Stratford, it takes about as long as a drive from my Manhattan apartment to East Hampton, Long Island.
The trigger for my visit was Joanna Glass, a Canadian-born ... more