James Armstrong, Playwright

 In the past, I've written about toy-theatre adaptations of such plays as Black-Eyed Susan , The Castle Spectre , The Miller and His Men...

Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes story " The Adventure of the Dancing Men " is an entertaining read, but would it make a g...

The Italian Renaissance writer Ludovico Ariosto is most famous for his verse epic Orlando Furioso . However, he also wrote plays, including...

Faithfulness to a job has always been a fool's errand. Constancy is inevitably unrewarded. In fact, "Constancy Unrewarded" is ...

I've written before about the actor Edmund Kean's working-class associations, including his membership in the notorious Wolves Club ...

Augustin Daly's 1867 melodrama Under the Gaslight first provided the stage with the image of a helpless victim tied to the railroad tra...

I missed Kevin Murphy and Laurence O'Keefe's musical Heathers  when it was originally Off-Broadway, but now it's back at New Wor...