James Armstrong, Playwright

Anyone who remembers the New York theatre scene from before the dreaded  covid shutdown knows that this city has yet to fully recover. Thea...

The British dramatist Henry Arthur Jones has fallen out of fashion now, but he was once extraordinarily popular. I've previously written...

Henry Arthur Jones is famous for championing a new, more serious form of drama for the London stage, but early in his career he wrote a good...

Just as the failed revolutions of 1848 brought about the climax and end of Romantic movements across Europe, the year 1968 brought a clima...

Today, I planned to go to an orientation session at the annual conference of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education. Unfortunately,...

It's a joke, right? How many Norwegian playwrights do you  know? There's only one. Ibsen. That's it. Except of course that it ...

If the title of Lucas Hnath's new play A Doll's House, Part 2 sounds like a joke, that's because it is, but Hnath is determined ...

There weren't too many good things about 2016, but there were a few stand-out theater productions in New York, so once again I'm com...

Currently, August Strindberg's play The Father  is running in rep with Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House  at Theatre for a New Audie...

Last night I saw Theatre for a New Audience's stellar production of A Doll's House . This could easily be the best production of the...

I've been reading Ibsen (as playwrights are wont to do) and I happened to come across some e-mails announcing that the Museum of the Cit...

The Failure of '48 In 1848, the Romantic spirit erupted in revolutions throughout Europe. Though some fighting had already begun in S...

The French novelist and playwright Emile Zola was probably the greatest proponent of Naturalism in the nineteenth century. In 1873, he adapt...