James Armstrong, Playwright

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

Last night, Red Bull Theater produced a staged reading of George Gordon Byron's Romantic tragedy Sardanapalus . The play remained unper...

               For God's sake let us sit upon the ground                And tell sad stories of the death of kings:                How s...

Ira Aldridge is one of those remarkable people we've known about for a long time, but who has been in recent years increasingly getting ...

On this day in 1814, Edmund Kean appeared as Shylock on the stage of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. It would launch Kean's career,...

The actor Charles Kean, in spite of all his accomplishments in the theatre, was always known--and probably always will be...