James Armstrong, Playwright

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

When I was in London in 2022 , I just missed being able to see The 47th , a new verse drama by Mike Bartlett that imagined a Presidential co...

"I don't judge people, I draw them," says Hannah Jelkes in Tennessee Williams's play The Night of the Iguana . The dramati...

Earlier this month, I announced that my play Apprenticeship  was a finalist for Amphibian Stage's SparkFest 2023 . Today, I'm please...

As the end of the year approaches, I am once again making my list of the best productions I saw in New York City that opened this year. If I...

I am currently in London for two things, a research appointment with the National Portrait Gallery which I had on Monday, and a Dickens con...

I am in London right now for a research appointment tomorrow and then a Dickens conference later this week. Tonight, I saw Kathryn Hunter in...

Last night I saw New York Classical Theatre perform Cymbeline  in Central Park. Last summer , the company performed Nahum Tate's adapta...

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

When John Webster 's play The Duchess of Malfi  was first published in 1623, it did something extraordinary for the time: it listed the ...

After two rained-out attempts , I finally got a chance to see New York Classical Theatre perform King Lear , as written by William Shakespe...

Tuesday, I was supposed to see New York Classical Theatre Company 's production of King Lear in Central Park. I was particularly excited...

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 ...

Today, I had to go to Midtown for a chiropractor's appointment, and since I was in the neighborhood, I wanted to swing by Amy's Brea...

I'm pleased to announce that my review of Hannibal Hamlin's book The Bible in Shakespeare has come out in the online journal Perform...

It was about the beginning of September, 1664, that I, among the rest of my neighbours, heard in ordinary discourse that the plague was retu...

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...

Last night I finally saw Sam Gold's production of King Lear starring theatre legend Glenda Jackson. One might think that the defining ...