James Armstrong, Playwright

I very much enjoyed attending the conference of the British Association of Romantic Studies in Glasgow , but the conference isn't quite ...

I was supposed to see Jeffery Kennedy speak on the Provincetown Players earlier this week, but circumstances intervened, and I missed his ta...

The latest issue of the journal Shaw  is now out, and it includes a book review I wrote of Siân Adiseshiah's new book Utopian Drama: In ...

In an 1888 article in The Universal Review , the British dramatist F.C. Burnand set out to defend burlesque, not the sexy strip-shows of tod...

Classicists often refer to the philosophical and political plays of Aristophanes as "Old Comedy" to distinguish them from the more...

On May 12, 1908, Bernard Shaw premiered a new play called Getting Married at the Haymarket Theatre in London. Shaw subtitled the piece ...

Last night, I saw Duncan Pflaster's new play Nothing but Thunder , which is currently showing at Theater for the New City as a part of t...

The Athenian philosopher Socrates shows up in the dialogues of Plato, but he also appears in dialogues of Xenophon, and in the play The Clou...

The Birth of Athenian Drama Though theatre historians regularly talk about "Greek drama," all of the extent plays from ancie...

Traditionally, critics have tended to look down on farce, viewing it as a form of "low" comedy not worthy of much study. However,...