As a member of the "New Theatre Company", which included many English actors, he was in the first play produced in the New Theatre in New York, opening on 6 November 1909, playing Octavian in Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra", and was in Galsworthy's "Strife", opening on 17 November. The company produced Shakespeare's "The Merry Wives of Windsor", which opened on 7 November 1910, Anson playing Master Ford. This last play came in December 1910 to Toronto, where a reviewer wrote, "Mr. Anson was especially fine as the jealous husband Ford. Indeed his was a performance that deepened the significance of the play."