James Armstrong, Playwright

 In the past, I've written about toy-theatre adaptations of such plays as Black-Eyed Susan , The Castle Spectre , The Miller and His Men...

Matthew G. Lewis is best known as author of the Gothic novel The Monk , but he also wrote numerous dramas, including The Castle Spectre . T...

I previously blogged about theatre articles that appeared recently in The Byron Journal . Today, I want to write about an article in The Co...

In 1807, the actor Henry Siddons, son of the famous tragedienne Sarah Siddons , published a treatise on acting--freely adapted from a German...

The Victorian actor Samuel Phelps was described by his biographer Richard Lee as "the last typical classic actor of the English theatre...

Bernard Shaw scholars tend to be a generous lot. When I first went to the Comparative Drama Conference, folks from the International Shaw So...

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...

Previews are always an exciting time for a show. Last night, when I saw Scotland, PA in previews at Roundabout's Laura Pels Theatre, d...

The text of Macbeth calls for two songs that are also in Thomas Middleton's play The Witch . Though The Witch seems to have been writt...

I just got back from seeing a student production of Shakespeare's  Macbeth  at City College. This reminded me of the toy theatre version...

I was excited to learn that the latest issue of Theatre Notebook has an article by Glen McGillivray titled "Rant, Cant and Tone: The V...