Actor Pressures Canada’s Shaw Festival To Diversify

“Toronto’s Andrew Moodie, 40, electrified the country’s theatrical community last week when he announced that he was starting an online initiative he calls Share the Stage to lever the festival, started 46 years ago at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont., to embrace such practices as colour-blind casting. In the announcement, Moodie asks: ‘Does the festival actually have a policy to exclude people based on race?’ ”