James Armstrong, Playwright

The composer Charles Dibdin provided a great deal of the music for late Georgian theatre, and now his one-man comic opera, The Wags , is ava...

Joseph Grimaldi was one of the great clowns of the early nineteenth century. His life story would have been fascinating no matter who record...

In 1819, the former actress Elizabeth Macauley wrote a pamphlet called Theatric Revolution, or Plain Truth Addressed to Common Sense . The p...