James Armstrong, Playwright

I've written before about the actor Edmund Kean's working-class associations, including his membership in the notorious Wolves Club ...

After Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s verse tragedy Remorse  became a hit in 1813, many writers with literary ambitions turned to the stage, hopin...

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

Today is the birthday of novelist Mary Shelley , but I want to write about the plays of one of her associates, George Gordon Byron, who rema...

Noted scholar Julie Carlson has reviewed my new book Romantic Actors, Romantic Dramas: British Tragedy on the Regency Stage  in the latest i...

If you've been wanting to order a copy of my new book, Romantic Actors, Romantic Dramas , but were putting it off because copies were to...

Tomorrow THEATER: All the Moving Parts  on CUNY TV will be airing an episode on Tom Stoppard's new play Leopoldstadt  featuring some com...

After a long wait, my new book Romantic Actors, Romantic Dramas: British Tragedy on the Regency Stage  is now available from publisher Palgr...

The actress Margaret Somerville made her debut at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane playing the female lead in Charles Robert Maturin's play...

The actor Edmund Kean was notoriously associated with wolves, and in fact presided over a social group known as the "Wolves Club"...

On October 6th, 1814, the actress Eliza O'Neill made her London debut at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. She played the role of Juliet...

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 ...

I recently read Jonathan Mulrooney's book Romanticism and Theatrical Experience . It provides an excellent analysis of the actor Edmund...