James Armstrong, Playwright

A recent issue of The Coleridge Bulletin  published some new letters from Sara Coleridge, daughter of poet and dramatist Samuel Taylor Coler...

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

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

The author Dion Clayton Calthrop said in an article about the Regency-era artist Robert Dighton, “The essence of caricature is polite laugh...

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...

Tomorrow THEATER: All the Moving Parts  on CUNY TV will be airing an episode on Tom Stoppard's new play Leopoldstadt  featuring some com...

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

In 1807, the actor Henry Siddons, son of the famous tragedienne Sarah Siddons , published a treatise on acting--freely adapted from a German...

I was recently asked to give a presentation on the London theatre season for 1782-1783. This was the season that Sarah Siddons returned to ...

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

Joanna Baillie is probably best known for her tragedy  De Monfort , but she also enjoyed considerable success with a later drama, The Family...

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...

Today is the birthday of the actress Sarah Siddons , who was born in Wales on July 5th, 1755. Her father Roger Kemble was Roman Catholic, ...

The Irish actress Sarah Smith was supposed to be the next big thing in the early nineteenth century. Unfortunately, the m...