James Armstrong, Playwright

Peter Hacks set his 1971 play Omphale in a remote, mythic time, but the piece examined gender roles in ways that must have hit very close t...

Friedrich Durrenmatt's play Hercules and the Augean Stables started out as a radio play in 1954, was later staged by several amateur gr...

Other than Bertolt Brecht, how many East German playwrights can you name? Okay, yes, there's Heiner Muller, but who else? I've b...