Des McAnuff – The Leader Stratford Always Wanted?

For all the grumbling and sniping aimed at McAnuff’s commitments outside the Stratford Festival and at his showy Broadway-bound transfers, “both McAnuff’s fans and his detractors love the way he has transformed the near-monochromatic company into something far more multicultural” – and ended the festival’s relative isolation from the wider theatrical world both within and outside Canada.