James Armstrong, Playwright

Though the Licensing Act of 1737 kept politics off the stage in Britain for much of the eighteenth century, British theatre continued to ma...

Richard Holmes' book The Age of Wonder  examines the fascinating links between science and art during the Romantic era . Did you know th...

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

I've been reading James Laver's book Drama - Its Costume and Décor . Though the book was originally published back in 1951, it still...