Elizabeth Elwood

Audiences will have another opportunity to see Vagabond Players’ enchanting production of Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) when the play opens the Theatre B.C. Greater Vancouver Zone Festival on Sunday, May 4 at Vancouver’s Metro Theatre.  New Westminster audiences raved

When it comes to The Arts, familiarity doesn’t breed contempt; it breeds sales.  I have first-hand experience of this from my book events.  Even though all four of my mystery books have equally good reviews, The Agatha Principle outsells the

Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) opened April 3 at the Bernie Legge Theatre in New Westminster, where the award-winning play will run until April 19.  Audiences at the preview performances raved about this entertaining and engaging production. Exceptionally well-acted and

I still remember the extensive headlines and media coverage during the seventies over the shooting of a woman hostage at the old B.C. Penitentiary in New Westminster.  However, in all the years I have known my friend, Margaret Franz, I

When, years ago, I sat through my Shakespeare course at UBC, I remember youthfully railing at the annoying twists of fate in Romeo and Juliet. The play, as our textbook described it, was “a succession of unlucky mischances”, and it

My books are collections of nine or ten stories, each one a separate mystery, but there’s an ongoing thread that tells the story of the main characters.  Therefore, the books combine the characteristics of the short story and the novel. 

Audiences at Vagabond Players production of Lawrence Roman’s domestic comedy, Alone Together, are coming out smiling.  They are also laughing and exchanging stories, for the play focuses on an issue that is plaguing many of today’s Baby Boomers:  What do

The end of 2014 will mark 200 years since the Treaty of Ghent ended the the War of 1812.  When this subject is raised in Canada, we tend to think of the battles on the Great Lakes, but two years

Our family has many happy memories of the Sundowner Inn on Hospital Bay.  Therefore, it’s hardly surprising that I used this Pender Harbour locale for a story in my latest book.  The impetus for the tale came from Patty Jackson,

St. Luke’s Players in Victoria is the most recent company to stage my play, Casting for Murder, and the production team graciously invited me to come over to see the final performance and be the guest of honour at a