 Carver made his U.S. debut in "The Tempest", playing Ariel to Anthony Hopkins's Prospero.Carver went on to win a Dora Award as Horst in "Bent", in Toronto.His stage work involved an extended association with Canada's Stratford Shakespeare Festival in the 1980s, including an original rock version of "Hamlet", as the lead, and later in 2000 as Tevye in "Fiddler on the Roof".