Élan and altered expectations: Perchance Theatre Brings Shakespeare back to Cupids
By Robert Ormsby After a year of producing Shakespeare online, Perchance Theatre returned to Cupids this summer with a strong and varied season of live performance. There are connections between…
“It felt like home”: Live Shakespearian Theatre returns to St John’s
by Robert Ormsby Live Shakespeare performance returned to St John’s this summer with Shakespeare By The Sea’s (SBTS) staging of Pericles at the Fortis Courtyard Amphitheatre outside The Rooms. Director…
Linden MacIntyre Part 2: “You learn things about people you thought you knew”
As a journalist, Linden MacIntyre has won 15 Geminis and one Emmy. In 1999 he published his first novel, As an author, his 2009 novel, The Bishop’s Man, was awarded the Scotiabank…
Linden MacIntyre, Part 1: The story “grew in my mind and in my heart”
For decades Linden MacIntyre was a major figure in Canadian radio and television journalism, including at The Fifth Estate where the many significant stories he covered included the Airbus affairs,…
Bernardine Ann Teráz Stapleton: This is the book I’ve always wanted to write
I’m looking at two – two! New books from you: love, life, and Girly Muckle and the Queer Hands. Not only that, but I think these are (respectively) your first…
The Mayor of Cummings Street
The history of a place is the history of the people who live there. This is the history of St John’s over the last 100 years, told through the life…