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...

Matthew G. Lewis is best known as author of the Gothic novel The Monk , but he also wrote numerous dramas, including The Castle Spectre . T...

I recently received the new issue of Theatre Notebook , which includes an article by Kate Aughterson on street scenography in Aphra Behn...

In the latest issue of Theatre Notebook , Christopher Butcher has an excellent article on William Charles Macready bringing Thomas Noon Tal...

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

Nicholas Rowe's play The Fair Penitent , based loosely on Philip Massinger and Nathan Field's  The Fatal Dowry , contains an excelle...

Euripides's masterpiece The Bacchae  won a posthumous first-place prize for the author when it originally premiered at the City Dionysia...

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

I was excited to learn that the latest issue of Theatre Notebook has an article by Glen McGillivray titled "Rant, Cant and Tone: The V...

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

The most recent issue of Theatre Notebook  contains an interesting article by Russell Burdekin about the stage illusion known as Pepper'...

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

It is commonly accepted that in Elizabethan theatres black curtains indicated the playing of tragedies. One line in the anonymous play A War...

As crowds throng to Leicester, England to mark the re-burial of what might be the remains of Richard III, defenders of that monarch often co...

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...