James Armstrong, Playwright

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...

I have no affection for cigarettes. When I was growing up, both of my parents smoked, and wanting to be like them, I wanted to smoke, too. O...

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...

One of the books I picked up on my recent trip to England was a facsimile of James Winston's The Theatric Tourist . Winston, an ac...

I'm happy to announce that my article "Succeeding the Siddons: Eliza O'Neill and the Triumph of the Romantic Style" has be...

I just finished reading Sandra Richards's book The Rise of the English Actress . By its nature, the book is a rather general study, but ...

I recently finished Christopher Murray's biography of the actor and theatre manager Robert William Elliston . It's amazing the numbe...

When the Society for Theatre Research published my article on Eliza O'Neill in Theatre Notebook  I was very grateful to the British Mu...