James Armstrong, Playwright

The Society for Theatre Research sponsored a lecture today by Alan Powers on British toy theatres, and fortunately they also streamed it on...

I recently finished reading Iain Mackintosh's new book Theatre Spaces 1920-2020: Finding the Fun in Functionalism . It's equal parts...

Along with publishing Theatre Notebook , the Society for Theatre Research always sends out one book a year to all of its members. This year,...

Today, the Society for Theatre Research presented a Zoom reading of the the very first stage adaptation of Charles Dickens's novel Nicho...

My article "Protagonists in Paper: Toy Theatres and the Cultivation of Celebrity" is out now in Theatre Notebook . I was able ...

I'm happy to announce that my article "Succeeding the Siddons: Eliza O'Neill and the Triumph of the Romantic Style" has be...

When the Society for Theatre Research published my article on Eliza O'Neill in Theatre Notebook  I was very grateful to the British Mu...

I'm back from the U.K. now, and the Society for Theatre Research conference in Cambridge was amazing. Our final day was jam packed. In...

I'm in Cambridge for the Society for Theatre Research's conference on Theatre in the Regency Era. And it's wonderful! Yesterda...

                    'O Mary, go and call the cattle home,                         And call the cattle home,                         An...

So the "Shaw in New York" conference ended yesterday, but I just received a message about the conference where I'll be present...

Hamlet speaks of "the table of my memory" and famously cries out "My tables, my tables! Meet it is I set it down / That one m...

I am very excited to be joining the Society for Theatre Research, a U.K.-based group for all those interested in the history and technique o...