Word: toronto
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...send your arts dollars to Canada? Over the years, the Canadians have brought to the arts both a responsible and an inspired use of public funds. The Canadian Broadcasting Corp., with its urbane programming, provides a cool antidote to America's increasingly hotheaded airwaves. Toronto's ambitiously international Harbourfront reading series, which brings authors before live audiences, succeeds on a scale unknown in the U.S. And Canada's two primary drama festivals, the Stratford and the Shaw, are heartening examples of that unlikely process by which public money is transformed into classy and sometimes profound entertainment...
...Shaw, located on Lake Ontario between Toronto and Buffalo, occupies three theaters in Niagara-on-the-Lake, a pretty town that might be described as the confluence of a network of bike paths and vineyards. The festival bills itself, justifiably, as a global one-of-a-kind: the world's only theatrical company dedicated exclusively to George Bernard Shaw and to those plays by other authors written during Shaw's lifetime--plays "about the beginning of the modern world...
...good, not awful, and most people know it. MAX ALLEN Toronto...
Conway, a native of Toronto, Canada, specialized in Canadian history and in "the geopolitical forces that shape political cultures," his wife told the Times...
After leaving Harvard, Conway held teaching andadministrative positions at York University inToronto, was a member of the boards of theCanadian National Ballet and the Toronto Symphony,and at the time of his death, was a trustee of theBoston Opera Company...