James Armstrong, Playwright

In an 1888 article in The Universal Review , the British dramatist F.C. Burnand set out to defend burlesque, not the sexy strip-shows of tod...

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

Euripides's masterpiece The Bacchae  won a posthumous first-place prize for the author when it originally premiered at the City Dionysia...

Today there were protests all across the United States in support of immigrants, so I wanted to blog about some of the great American drama...

Originally a painter, Isaac Pocock began writing for the stage with the musical farce Yes or No? which opened in 1808 at the Haymarket Thea...

Lucia Elizabeth Bartolozzi, later known as Madame Vestris, was born into an interesting family, to say the least. Her father, Gaetano Bartol...

The life of an actress is rarely easy, but Julia Glover had it harder than most. Born Julia Betterton to a family of 18th-century actors, sh...

The Failure of '48 In 1848, the Romantic spirit erupted in revolutions throughout Europe. Though some fighting had already begun in S...