James Armstrong, Playwright

Last night I saw Classic Stage Company's production of Brecht's  A Man's a Man . Duncan Sheik provided the music for the songs, ...

This past summer, I saw Figurentheater Wilde und Vogel's intimate chamber musical Songs for Alice at the Ruhrfestspiele Fringe Festival...

I was telling some of my colleagues about my trip to Germany this summer to see the Ruhrfestspiele in Recklinghausen. One of the plays I tal...

This summer, I had the pleasure of seeing two Sternheim plays in one with David Mouchtar-Samorai's mash-up of Die Hose  and Burger Schip...

Now that I'm back in the States, I wanted to post these publicity shots of some of the great shows I saw at the Ruhrfestspiele in German...

Today was my last day at the Ruhrfestspiele. I saw a production of Karl Schönherr’s Der Weibsteufel directed by Martin Kušej. The most ...

Wednesday I attended the premiere of the Kleist-award-winning play Brandung , by Maria Milisavljevic. The play is being performed at the...

I quite enjoyed Death in Venice last night. There was an odd moment, however, when the waiter came over to Aschenbach and asked him to sign...

I have to admit, it was with more than a little trepidation that I approached David Mouchtar-Samorai's adaptation that brings together C...

So my second day at the Ruhrfestspiele I saw two plays. The first was Le Navire Night , a "dialogue for voice and cello" performed...

I know there are people who read this blog in Germany. (At least that's what Google analytics tells me.) Well, if you are in Germany tod...

Recently, I received a Cohn-Lortel travel grant through the City University of New York to visit the Ruhr Valley Theatre Festival (Ruhrfests...