Stratford, Ontario, in Canada, is home to the Shakespeare Festival, a months-long festival filled with Shakespeare, musicals and other dramas.

This building is the Festival Theatre, the main theater for the festival. It is topped with a Canadian flag and out front there is a wonderful garden area. A couple days ago, I posted a story about my reason for going to the theater: “So now you have a crush on Christopher Plummer.” Yes, I drove five-plus hours to see Plummer act in a extraordinary performance of “The Tempest.” But Stratford is a quaint, though touristy place, and a visit in the summer was much improved weather-wise over my visit in November 2006.