James Armstrong, Playwright

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

In the latest issue of Theatre Notebook , Christopher Butcher has an excellent article on William Charles Macready bringing Thomas Noon Tal...

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

The poet Leigh Hunt was not known for his business acumen. In fact, Charles Dickens famously satirized Hunt's impecuniousness with the c...

Last night I saw Tricycle Theatre's wonderful production of Red Velvet at St. Ann's Warehouse. This new play by Lolita Chakrabart...

I recently read The Jealous Wife by George Colman the Elder. Coleman was an eighteenth-century playwright whose son of the same name also w...