James Armstrong, Playwright

I first saw Anais Mitchell's  Hadestown  in 2016 , when it was playing Off-Broadway at New York Theatre Workshop. It was such a wonderfu...

I recently finished reading Iain Mackintosh's new book Theatre Spaces 1920-2020: Finding the Fun in Functionalism . It's equal parts...

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...

I recently saw back-to-back two plays whose marketing makes them look like one-woman shows. Fortunately, both actually provide a diverse ca...

Generally, when I see a good play, I post about it, and when I see something that's bad, I write nothing. Unfortunately, the New York ...

There weren't too many good things about 2016, but there were a few stand-out theater productions in New York, so once again I'm com...

Last night I saw Anais Mitchell's Hadestown at New York Theatre Workshop . The play gets off to somewhat of a slow start, but it builds...

I just saw Ivo van Hove's Broadway production of The Crucible . Though the modern dress and some directorial weirdness might grab headli...

As much as I enjoyed  Red-Eye to Havre de Grace at New York Theatre Workshop last year, the best play I've ever seen about the undisput...

Last night I had the good fortune to see Red-Eye to Havre de Grace , the fantasia on the death of Edgar Allan Poe currently playing at New ...