James Armstrong, Playwright

 In the past, I've written about toy-theatre adaptations of such plays as Black-Eyed Susan , The Castle Spectre , The Miller and His Men...

Edmund Kean has been called the greatest actor of the Romantic era, perhaps even the greatest actor of all time. (Kean wouldn't disagre...

I was unable to attend in person this year's conference held by the North American Association for the Study of Romanticism , but this m...

I'm pleased to find that my new book Romantic Actors, Romantic Dramas  has been positively reviewed in The Byron Journal . Julie Carlson...

I’ve been in the United Kingdom for the 2024 conference of the British Association for Romantic Studies in Glasgow.   The conference kicked...

Last night I saw the premiere of the Metropolitan Opera 's new production of La Forza del Destino by Giuseppi Verdi. The opera has a re...

Noted scholar Julie Carlson has reviewed my new book Romantic Actors, Romantic Dramas: British Tragedy on the Regency Stage  in the latest i...

Sunday was the last day of the Modern Language Association's annual convention, held this year in Philadelphia. I delivered a paper on L...

Today I went to the Stuart Curran Symposium on "Romantic Futures" and got to meet up with various people and hear about the novel ...

When Jez Butterworth's play Jerusalem  premiered on Broadway, all the talk was about Mark Rylance 's performance in the leading role...

If you've been wanting to order a copy of my new book, Romantic Actors, Romantic Dramas , but were putting it off because copies were to...

This week, the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism is holding its annual conference in Huntsville, Texas. I'll be atten...

Yesterday, my sister and I drove down to Trenton to see the closing performance of my adaptation of A Christmas Carol  at Passage Theatre Co...

After a long wait, my new book Romantic Actors, Romantic Dramas: British Tragedy on the Regency Stage  is now available from publisher Palgr...

Today I chaired a panel on "New Approaches to Lord Byron " for the BARS/NASSR 2022 "New Romanticisms" conference, and to...

Yesterday, I tuned in for a very informative online panel on "The Visual Life of Romantic Theatre" which previewed some of the wo...

J.W. Goethe's two-part poetic drama Faust  is perhaps the greatest work of German Romanticism , which is why it's such a shame there...

The Roman playwright Plautus turned the story of Hercules's conception by Jupiter into a comedy, but the mingling of gods and heroes in...

Today, February 25th, is the anniversary of the so-called "Battle of Hernani " when partisans for and against Victor Hugo fought i...

On October 6th, 1814, the actress Eliza O'Neill made her London debut at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. She played the role of Juliet...