James Armstrong, Playwright

This summer, there are two free outdoor productions of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya . Last night, I saw the first of them to begin perfo...

Gerhart Hauptmann is best known for Naturalistic plays such as The Weavers , but later in life he turned toward Symbolism . The play that co...

Leo Tolstoy's play The Power of Darkness is known for one of the most infamous sound effects in the history of dramatic literature: a b...

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

The French novelist and playwright Emile Zola was probably the greatest proponent of Naturalism in the nineteenth century. In 1873, he adapt...