On the back of those relationships, he played a huge role in developing and promoting the Toronto theatre scene over his 35 years at NOW. Factory Theatre, the Theatre Centre, Theatre Passe Muraille and other venues symbolically reserved a seat in Kaplan’s honour on the weekend. Let’s face it: the words “beloved” and “theatre critic” are rarely mentioned in the same sentence. But since NOW Magazine’s senior theatre writer, Jon Kaplan, died last Friday after a struggle with cancer at the age of 69, the outpouring of love and grief from the Toronto theatre community has been extraordinary. “If Jon didn’t see it, it practically didn’t exist,” she says.

Source: thestar May 03, 2017 12:56 UTC