Ontario’s Stratford Festival is due to announce its new season soon. One of the plays under strong consideration was written by the theatre critic at Canada’s National Post newspaper. So what will this mean for critic/playwright Robert Cushman? “It’s an answered prayer for any dramatist, of course. Lights! Attention! Semi-fame! But if so, will the National Post ask Cushman to step aside as the newspaper’s Stratford critic for the 2005 season? That’s an onerous demand for a freelance writer with family to support and whose income comes story by story, but it’s one the Post and its scribe likely will have to consider.”