James Armstrong, Playwright

My play My Fellow Americans  opens next month as part of the Secret Theatre One-Act Festival, which means it's time to meet the Preside...

Tuesday, I was supposed to see New York Classical Theatre Company 's production of King Lear in Central Park. I was particularly excited...

The COVID crisis has had profound effects on New York City, the state, and the nation. There is plenty the federal government could do to pr...

This weekend, I had a chance to see A Christmas Carol in Harlem , a delightful update of the classic Charles Dickens tale set in contemporar...

Thanksgiving is over, which means we now begin... the season of A Christmas Carol . I wrote my own two-person adaptation of the Charl...

This year, The Public Theater is producing three big-budget plays at the Delacorte in Central Park: Much Ado About Nothing , Coriolanus , an...

Last night I saw Classical Theatre of Harlem 's production of Antigone , which sets the classic Sophocles play in an urban wasteland of ...

Scotland's come to Harlem... at least until the end of the month. This summer, the Classical Theatre of Harlem is performing William S...

Tonight I was able to attend the very first preview of The First Noel , a band new holiday musical produced by the Classical Theatre of Harl...

I previously wrote about the effects of the Licensing Act of 1737 , which brought broad censorship to the British stage in the 18th century,...

Last night, I saw the Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park production of The Tempest with Sam Waterston as Prospero. In spite of t...