James Armstrong, Playwright

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

When John Webster 's play The Duchess of Malfi  was first published in 1623, it did something extraordinary for the time: it listed the ...

Tuesday, I was supposed to see New York Classical Theatre Company 's production of King Lear in Central Park. I was particularly excited...

The actor Edmund Kean was notoriously associated with wolves, and in fact presided over a social group known as the "Wolves Club"...

When David Garrick heard about "a Mrs. Siddons" who might "be a valuable acquisition to Drury Lane" he sent his friend t...

Ira Aldridge is one of those remarkable people we've known about for a long time, but who has been in recent years increasingly getting ...

This year, The Public Theater is producing three big-budget plays at the Delacorte in Central Park: Much Ado About Nothing , Coriolanus , an...

"Though every poet-laureat must be expected to attract a considerable portion of envy, few have been so severely han...

In the mid-1590s, Shakespeare began work on a tetralogy of history plays telling the story of the English monarchy from the abdication of Ri...

Yesterday, I mentioned the 1993 film version of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing . Today, I want to write about the film version of ...

With the outbreak of the English Civil War in 1642, dramatic production in Britain came to a virtual standstill. Drama was seen as royalist,...