Bishop’s University in Lennoxville Quebec is a good choice for playwriting / history, and has very good musical theatre (and they know how to spell it!). It is one of the three universities in Quebec for which English is the language of instruction. I think that it would probably be a safety with your stats. It is a small university with a relatively compact campus which is relatively easy to get around. We liked it quite a bit when we visited. One daughter was admitted and seriously considered it (along with a few other small universities in eastern Canada). She did get her bachelor’s degree at a small university in Canada, did very well, and is currently getting a PhD at a very good university in the US (but in a different major than you).
Lennoxville is a largely bilingual small town, quite close to the largely French speaking small city of Sherbrooke. The first two people who I met who were from Lennoxville were bilingual to the point that they did not have a single first language. One of them told me that their earliest memory was that everything had two words to describe it, and their second-earliest memory was realizing that the words came in two groupings and some people only knew one of the two groupings. Anyone who I have ever met however who was from Lennoxville has been fluently bilingual in both English and French.
There is also a Drama Studies program at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick which is very good. We liked Mount Allison also (deciding between Bishop’s, Mount Allison, Acadia, and St Francis Xavier was the most difficult part of one daughter’s undergraduate university admissions effort – PhD admissions were tougher but went well).
You can save several buckets of money while getting a great education in Canada. You will pay tuition either as a Canadian citizen or possibly (depending upon some details) as a resident of Quebec (which is even better). I also do know several people who got their bachelor’s degree in Canada and then either got or are currently getting a graduate degree (either master’s or PhD or both) in the US, including at some very highly ranked American universities. You might want to see if you attend university in Canada whether your parents will put any money you save towards any potential future graduate degree or towards an unpaid but worthwhile internship.
Applying from a high school in the US, with dual US/Canadian citizen, one university (specifically Bishop’s) missed the fact that my daughter was a Canadian citizen. Along with her acceptance they sent information regarding costs for international students and how to apply for appropriate visa’s. A quick call to admissions plus a fax of her Certificate of Canadian Citizenship cleared this up quickly and easily (a text picture would work just as well today). We found admissions at the small universities in eastern Canada to be very easy to deal with. Admissions at McGill were just as helpful, but sometimes took longer to get back to us.
It might be worth also looking at Concordia in Montreal, but it is quite a bit larger and my understanding is that it has two main campuses (it was formed from the merger of two universities).
Our daughter seemed to enjoy studying in Canada, and found quite a few opportunities that were relevant to her major. One difference with respect to the US is that there seem to be fewer general education requirements, which allows you if you want to take more classes relevant to your major. I think that this has for example helped to set my daughter up to do well in her current PhD program. Another plus of studying in Canada is that it does allow you to get to see a bit more of the world, while still being relatively close to New York (or to New England for us).