James Armstrong, Playwright

Last night I was at the Bartow-Pell Mansion to watch Red Monkey Theater Group perform William Shakespeare's  Much Ado About Nothing  in...

A couple years ago, I saw Sean Coffey of Red Monkey Theater Group perform a one-man version of A Christmas Carol  at Van Cortlandt House Mu...

It been a spooky season, and I've been watching a lot of spooky films. Last night, I saw The Phantom Carriage , directed by Victor Sjöst...

I was browsing some playbills in the online collection of the British Library, when I came across an interesting poster advertising a stage ...

I'm pleased to announce that my short play Burns Night  has passed into the semifinalist round of the Holiday Playwright Contest held by...

Tomorrow night, November 2nd, Bara Swain's The Boob Tube Plays  opens at The Tank, featuring a short play that I'm directing, Beyond...

Yesterday was the first Sunday of Advent, which means the season of A Christmas Carol  is upon us yet again. For the past couple of years, P...

By law, dramatists are forbidden from unionizing. The PRO Act would make things better for dramatists, but still not allow us to form a uni...

For more than thirty years, Passage Theatre Company has served the greater Trenton area with high-quality productions of new and establishe...

Elizabeth Inchbald made her playwriting debut with The Mogul Tale in 1784, but her 1788 play Animal Magnetism  had a longer-lasting influen...

As the end of the year approaches, I am once again making my list of the best productions I saw in New York City that opened this year. If I...

If you missed my adaptation of A Christmas Carol  at Passage Theatre Company in Trenton, you can still watch the show streaming until Decem...

My adaptation of A Christmas Carol  is now closed at Passage Theatre Company, but I was sent a number of production photos of the show. All ...

Yesterday, my sister and I drove down to Trenton to see the closing performance of my adaptation of A Christmas Carol  at Passage Theatre Co...

My two-person adaptation of Charles Dickens's classic A Christmas Carol  is now up and running at Passage Theatre Company in Trenton. P...

Last night I had the privilege of seeing KPOP , the new Broadway musical by Jason Kim, Helen Park, and Max Vernon. KPOP  began as an immersi...

My two-person adaptation of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol  was performed last year in Trenton , and now it's returning next we...

This month, I found out that my application to be a Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellow made it to the final round of consideration, though ...

I first moved into New York City in 2002. I had a great apartment in Hell's Kitchen. It was there that I wrote Foggy Bottom , which late...

Charles Dickens first published his delightful little book A Christmas Carol  in December of 1843. The first edition sold out by Christmas E...