James Armstrong, Playwright

The appropriately named series "Music Before 1800" brings early music to New York City in the fitting venue of Corpus Christi Chur...

The Castle of Perseverance  is a medieval Morality Play that is of particular interest because its manuscript contains detailed instruction...

Last night, I saw Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' new play Everybody  at the Signature Theatre Company. Though at first I wasn't sure how I ...

The twelfth-century German nun Hildegard of Bingen wrote what is generally regarded to be the first surviving morality play, a musical drama...

Yesterday, I promised a blog post about Christopher Marlowe, the first truly great playwright of the Elizabethan stage. Marlowe was born...

As the middle ages in England came to a close, the Plantagenet dynasty split into two factions: the House of Lancaster and the House of York...

I remember how when I was growing up in Pensacola my parents took me to see some student-directed one-act plays at the University of West ...

Early Spanish Drama During the 16th and 17th centuries, Spain asserted its power across the globe. It dominated Europe, conquered much of ...

Liturgical Drama Though early Christians opposed the theatre, their rituals were themselves dramatic. At the heart of Christian religious ...