James Armstrong, Playwright

Getting plays produced is hard. Getting them licensed for amateur performance can be even harder. That's why I'm glad to announce th...

Watching a horror story play out live on stage is inherently different from watching one on screen. In a movie, there is no end to the numbe...

New York City has lost one of the best friends to new play development the theatre had. After a difficult battle with cancer, actor Doug Ros...

Tomorrow, New York Theatre Barn will be presenting songs and scenes from my new musical Burned  at Improv Asylum Theatre. Composer and ly...

My new musical Burned , with songs by Joshua H. Cohen, will have a presentation next month at New York Theatre Barn , and we can now announc...

Next month, New York Theatre Barn will be kicking off the 13th season of their New Works Series with a reading of an abridged version of the...

To close out 2019, I'm making a list of the best new American musicals of the teens. I'm only including new American musicals (so n...

Last night, I saw Lola Maltz's show My Mom Is a Sex Therapist  at The Duplex. I first saw the piece back in 2013 (also at The Duplex), ...

If you're free on Sunday, you might want to come out to The Duplex Cabaret Theatre to hear songs from Burned , a new musical I’m writin...

The composer Joshua H. Cohen and I will be premiering four songs from our new musical Burned  at The Duplex Cabaret Theatre on Sunday, Janu...

Tonight, composer Joshua H. Cohen and I had our first table read of our new musical Burned . We debuted some songs from Burned  earlier t...

Come out tomorrow to Studios 353 where songs and scenes from my new musical Burned  will be presented as a part of Golden Fleece's Squar...

A week from Sunday, songwriter Joshua H. Cohen and I will be presenting songs and scenes from our new musical Burned  as a part of Golden Fl...

A week from today, Joshua H. Cohen's cabaret show True Story  will play at the Duplex. I have my tickets already, and I am psyched about...

Yesterday I saw the delightful new children's musical Flight School  at the Vital Theatre. Based on a picture book by Lita Judge, the pl...

Last night, I got back from Durham, New Hampshire, where the University of New Hampshire put on my musical Keep On Walkin' . The play wa...

This month will be the World Premier of the musical Keep On Walkin' , with songs by Lavell Blackwell and Joshua H. Cohen and a book by y...

My musical for young audiences, Keep On Walkin' , with songs by Lavell Blackwell and Joshua H. Cohen, is scheduled to open at the Univer...

If you haven't seen Cara Maltz's new show My Mom Is a Sex Therapist , get down to The Duplex today by 3:30 for the last performance....

Last night, I saw Prospect Theater Company's production of Tamar of the River for the third time. Honestly, I kept liking it more and m...