Article: `King Lear' at Lincoln Center gives a bigger stage to Canada's Stratford Festival

JOSH HOFFNER, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
03-19-2004
Dateline: NEW YORK
The arrival of "King Lear" at Lincoln Center last month created a buzz deserving of a play considered by many to be the finest work in the Shakespearean canon.

After all, the production, which quickly sold out its entire run through April 18, has a legendary director in Jonathan Miller and one of the world's best actors in Christopher Plummer as the mad king.

But the real source of the fanfare surrounding "King Lear" lies in a former railroad town in southern Ontario, Canada, that has been turning out classic drama for more than 50 years.

The Stratford Festival of Canada first put on this "King Lear" in 2002, ...

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