James Armstrong, Playwright

Yesterday was the final monthly meeting this season of The Friends of Dickens New York ,  at which we discussed the final chapters of  A Tal...

Tonight, I'm having a private reading of my play Combustion with American Renaissance Theater Company . The play tells the story of Mar...

Today is the 214th birthday of Charles Dickens, which is as good a time as any to mention that my review of The Plays of Charles Dickens  ra...

It been a spooky season, and I've been watching a lot of spooky films. Last night, I saw The Phantom Carriage , directed by Victor Sjöst...

The British dramatist Tom Taylor is most famous for writing Our American Cousin , the comedy Abraham Lincoln was watching when he was assass...

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...

I have lots of events coming up over the next several months related--in various ways--to the theatre, both past and present. Today, Februar...

I was browsing some playbills in the online collection of the British Library, when I came across an interesting poster advertising a stage ...

I'm pleased to announce that my short play Burns Night  has passed into the semifinalist round of the Holiday Playwright Contest held by...

Tomorrow night, November 2nd, Bara Swain's The Boob Tube Plays  opens at The Tank, featuring a short play that I'm directing, Beyond...

The novelist and playwright Wilkie Collins began writing a melodrama called The Storm at the Lighthouse in September of 1854, finishing it...

The novels of Charles Dickens have been adapted for the stage over and over again, but one of the earliest adaptations was a two-act version...

Sunday was the last day of the Modern Language Association's annual convention, held this year in Philadelphia. I delivered a paper on L...

Yesterday was the first Sunday of Advent, which means the season of A Christmas Carol  is upon us yet again. For the past couple of years, P...

On this All Hallow's Eve, I wanted to write about a theatre that has been home to some of the spookiest dramas of all time, London's...

Today I went to the Stuart Curran Symposium on "Romantic Futures" and got to meet up with various people and hear about the novel ...

I just finished taping an episode of Pickwick Monthly for the Rosenbach Museum and Library, where Ed Pettit and I discussed (among other th...

I just saw Michael Raabe and Eric Davis's new musical Oz , produced by FreeFall Theatre Company in St. Petersburg. This clever and movi...

Today was the second day of the International Shaw Society's " Shaw and Heroism " conference at the College of William and Mar...