James Armstrong, Playwright

This summer, there are two free outdoor productions of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya . Last night, I saw the first of them to begin perfo...

Marc Castle's new play Into the Light  (which I'm directing) opens tonight, so get your tickets while you can! In addition to writi...

I just got back from seeing Jez Butterworth's new play The Hills of California , a rather Chekhovian examination of hope, heartbreak, a...

Last week, I saw Roundabout's production of Noah Haidle's play Birthday Candles  starring Debra Messing. The play follows the life o...

I just saw Cyrano, My Love , a wonderful new movie written and directed by Alexis Michalik that imagines how Edmond Rostand might have come...

Last night, I went to the first preview of The Assembly's new piece, SEAGULLMACHINE , at La MaMa. According to the company's website...

This week I was teaching a script analysis class, and we were picking apart Anton Chekov's  The Cherry Orchard . It was interesting on M...

This afternoon, I saw the Roundabout Theatre Company's production of The Cherry Orchard . An all-star cast (headed by Diane Lane) does a...

Poets like Stéphane Mallarmé, Rainer Maria Rilke, and William Butler Yeats  all admired the Belgian Symbolist playwright Maurice Maeterlinck...

The Failure of '48 In 1848, the Romantic spirit erupted in revolutions throughout Europe. Though some fighting had already begun in S...