James Armstrong, Playwright

The story of the Cenci family is perhaps best known from a verse drama by Percy Shelley . However, Shelley based his play on real-life event...

Molière 's final play, The Imaginary Invalid , is difficult to perform as written. Prior to last night, the only time I'd seen the p...

I hadn't planned on seeing Red Bull Theater's reading of The Jew of Malta  by Christopher Marlowe , but when my friend Susan told me...

Last night, Red Bull Theater produced a staged reading of George Gordon Byron's Romantic tragedy Sardanapalus . The play remained unper...

Today is the Feast Day of Joan of Arc, a historical figure who has inspired a number of plays, including Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan , Jan...

Many years ago, when I was a student at Drew University , I directed an abridged version of the Jacobean comedy The Knight of the Burning Pe...

Elizabeth Inchbald made her playwriting debut with The Mogul Tale in 1784, but her 1788 play Animal Magnetism  had a longer-lasting influen...

The Red Bull Theater Company recently announced that they will be presenting a reading of The Relapse , John Vanbrugh's sequel to the Co...

New York City theatre isn't completely back yet, especially with omicron scares cancelling shows right and left, but at least things are...

In September, Red Bull Theater Company sponsored a virtual reading of the play  Love is the Greater Labyrinth by Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz ...

The prologue to Ben Jonson's play The Alchemist  begins: "Fortune, that favours fools, these two short hours / We wish away......

John Webster's play The White Devil is a bit of a mess. Webster usually collaborated as a playwright, and The White Devil , which prem...