James Armstrong, Playwright

 If you love comic books and you love opera, then the Metropolitan Opera 's production of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay ...

Last night, I saw Theatre for a New Audience 's production of Henrik Ibsen's The Wild Duck . If you haven't seen it yet, the sho...

After Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s verse tragedy Remorse  became a hit in 1813, many writers with literary ambitions turned to the stage, hopin...

Edmund Kean has been called the greatest actor of the Romantic era, perhaps even the greatest actor of all time. (Kean wouldn't disagre...

I previously blogged about theatre articles that appeared recently in The Byron Journal . Today, I want to write about an article in The Co...

Today is the birthday of novelist Mary Shelley , but I want to write about the plays of one of her associates, George Gordon Byron, who rema...

The latest issue of The Shavian  has a fascinating article by Michel Pharand about links between the dramatists Bernard Shaw and Jean Coctea...