James Armstrong, Playwright

When I found out that Hudson Classical Theater Company would be performing an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's The Lady From the Sea , I kn...

Yesterday was the final day of the Shaw Symposium at Niagara-on-the-Lake. I was pleased to be able to attend the talks as well as plays prod...

I'm in Niagara-on-the-Lake for the Shaw Symposium. Today, Dorothy Hadfield, the President of the International Shaw Society , welcomed u...

I enjoyed the Dickens Symposium at Boston University  last week, where I delivered a paper on theatrical audiences in the works of Charles D...

Charles Dickens did not have fond memories of The Village Coquettes , an operetta he wrote with composer John Pyke Hullah. When he was later...

In the plays of William Shakespeare, the colony of Virginia (named for Elizabeth I, the Virgin Queen) shows up only indirectly. Caliban in T...

In 1832, the British parliament issued a report by a select committee formed to investigate the state of dramatic literature. Edward Bulwer,...