James Armstrong, Playwright

The first Stephen Sondheim musical I ever saw on Broadway was Passion , his 1994 collaboration with director and book writer James Lapine. I...

I’ve been visiting friends in Pittsburgh, and last night I had the opportunity to see Front Porch Theatricals ’ production of Sunday in the ...

Once again, I'm compiling a list of the top ten plays I saw in New York City that opened in 2023. Last year, the musical Paradise Square...

Whether or not the end of the world really does come in Stephen Sondheim and David Ives's musical Here We Are , a feeling of impending d...

When I was younger, I saw a touring production of Into the Woods  by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine. I adored the show and bought the cas...

As Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd , Angela Lansbury was known for the worst pies in London, but she was a consummate performer, even if you wan...

Sweeney Todd, the demon barber of Fleet Street made famous by the Stephen Sondheim/Hugh Wheeler musical, first made his appearance as a char...

Before our entire society shut down in 2020, I had been looking forward to seeing James Lapine's new musical Flying Over Sunset . I mean...

Earlier this year , I was very excited to announce that my paper on Sarah Bernhardt and Bernard Shaw had been accepted to a conference in Cá...

Congratulations to the Astoria Performing Arts Center , whose production of Follies cleaned up at the New York Innovative Theatre Awards th...

Yesterday, I attended Astoria Performing Arts Center's production of Follies , a musical that takes place in a theatre about to be torn ...

It's that time again when I look back on the best new productions that opened in New York City over the past year. This list is only f...

Last night, I had the pleasure of seeing Norm Lewis as the title character in Sweeney Todd  at the Barrow Street Theatre. This production ...

The 1974 Tony Award for Best Musical went to Raisin , an adaptation of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun . Never seen it? Well no...

When Merrily We Roll Along  opened on Broadway in 1981, audiences didn't know what to make of it. The play's structure, moving backw...