The Beatties and the Needles had cottages near each other in the area where the fictitious Wingfield Farm is located.
He has appeared in productions outside Stratford including: The Loveliest and Sylvia in Victoria, The Crucible and Blessings in Disguise in Manitoba, Oleanna at the National Arts Centre opposite Sandra Oh,[3] and Love Letters opposite his then-wife Martha Henry in an Ontario tour.
[4] On January 14, 2010, the opening night performance of Wingfield Lost and Found at the Citadel Theatre in Edmonton, Alberta was Beattie's 4,000th performance of a Wingfield play in a little over twenty-five years.
Beattie has also taken part in seasons at Cincinnati's Playhouse in the Park and the Asolo Theater in Sarasota, Florida.
The first three Wingfield plays were broadcast on CBC Radio's Morningside; a TV version of Letter from Wingfield Farm (produced by Primedia Productions) won the 1991 Gemini (Canadian TV) Award for Best Performing Arts Program; and in November 1998, a series of thirty half-hour TV episodes, entitled Wingfield, produced by Norflicks Productions, made its CBC debut.