James Armstrong, Playwright

Augustin Daly's 1867 melodrama Under the Gaslight first provided the stage with the image of a helpless victim tied to the railroad tra...

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

Today was the last day of the International Shaw Society 's conference on Bernard Shaw's Ireland, held by University College Dublin....

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...

I've been looking at some illustrations of American theatre that appeared in Harper's Weekly , a journal that began in 1857 and rema...

The Irish playwright Dion Boucicault was a master of melodrama . He is perhaps most famous for his American-set plays The Poor of New York  ...

New York City theatre isn't completely back yet, especially with omicron scares cancelling shows right and left, but at least things are...

Last night, I was privileged to attend the first preview of the magnificent revival of  The Streets of New York  now at Irish Repertory Thea...

This time of year, it's always good to give thanks for all that we've received. With the devastation we've all witnessed in the ...

The Irish dramatist Dion Boucicault had his first big hit in 1841 with London Assurance , which opened at Covent Garden, managed at that tim...

Dion Boucicault's play The Poor of New York was a hit when it opened at Wallack's Theatre in New York City in 1857, just as a finan...

Melodrama began in France and Germany, arriving in England only after it had already been developed abroad. In France, a "melo-drame...

I've come up with this year's list of the top plays I saw that opened in New York in 2019. Of course some plays didn't qualify...

On this day of giving thanks, I am grateful for some of the wonderful theatre companies in New York City that keep going in spite of the di...