Newton ran the Ontario showcase of George Bernard Shaw and other classic theater plays from 1979 to 2002.
The Shaw Festival, which has its home at Niagara-on-the-Lake, near the Canadian-U.S. border in Ontario, said Newton died peacefully on Saturday morning.
“It is no exaggeration to say that, without Christopher Newton, there would be no Shaw Festival today. He set a very high standard in everything he did, and long after his retirement as artistic director in 2002, he continued to be a passionate supporter of the festival and the arts,” festival artistic director Tim Carroll said in a statement on Sunday.
Born in Deal, England, on June 11, 1936, and educated at Sir Roger Manwood’s School in Kent, the University of Leeds and Purdue University in Indiana, Newton moved to Canada in 1961 to audition for the Stratford Festival in Stratford, Ontario. He began his acting career with the Canadian Players, Manitoba Theatre Centre, before going on to a stage career with the Shaw and Stratford festivals and Broadway.
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