James Armstrong, Playwright

Anyone who remembers the New York theatre scene from before the dreaded  covid shutdown knows that this city has yet to fully recover. Thea...

Tennessee Williams was good at making monsters . In his 1959 play Sweet Bird of Youth , the movie star Alexandra Del Lago says to Chance Way...

It been a spooky season, and I've been watching a lot of spooky films. Last night, I saw The Phantom Carriage , directed by Victor Sjöst...

Kowalski , Gregg Ostrin's new play currently running at The Duke on 42nd Street, imagines a possible meeting between playwright Tennesse...

"I don't judge people, I draw them," says Hannah Jelkes in Tennessee Williams's play The Night of the Iguana . The dramati...

Singing and Dancing Through War As disastrous as the First World War was, the Second World War was even more devastating for humanity. Eight...

Theatre cannot be killed. You can try to murder it, but it will not stay quietly in its grave. That is the lesson of Blessed Unrest's ne...

New York City has lost one of the best friends to new play development the theatre had. After a difficult battle with cancer, actor Doug Ros...

Next month, on the auspicious evening of Friday, October 13th, my new one-act play The Love Songs of Brooklynites  will have a reading at th...

Today's announcement has been in the works for a long time, but I am pleased to say that my play I Hate You: A Love Story  will have its...

Next Wednesday, December 3rd, Applause Books will be celebrating the release of  Best Monologues from Best American Short Plays . Come out a...

On Saturday, I hope you all come to see my play THE STATE OF COLORADO v. TENNESSEE WILLIAMS  at the Bad Theater Fest . However, if you'r...

This Saturday will be your last chance to see THE STATE OF COLORADO v. TENNESSEE WILLIAMS  at the Bad Theater Fest. What happens when a ...

Tonight, everyone should be heading out to the Treehouse Theater to see my short play THE STATE OF COLORADO v. TENNESSEE WILLIAMS as part of...

This Saturday, my short play THE STATE OF COLORADO v. TENNESSEE WILLIAMS opens at the Treehouse Theater as part of the Bad Theater Fest. For...

One week from today, my 10-minute play THE STATE OF COLORADO v. TENNESSEE WILLIAMS  will open as part of the Bad Theater Fest at the Treehou...

I am pleased to announce that next month the Treehouse Theater will host the premiere of my short play The State of Colorado v. Tennessee Wi...

It's that time of year when people put together their lists of the best plays they've seen over the past 12 months. I've decided...

Last night I saw Tennessee Williams's play The Mutilated  now at the New Ohio Theatre (on Christopher Street where the Wings Theatre use...

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...