There is much to love in this Lyric Stage Company production and I recommend it highly.
Sarah-Ruhl
Theater Review: A Superb “Clean House” at The Williamstown Theatre Festival
This is a masterful production of Sarah Ruhl’s sparkling update of Commedia dell’arte.
Theater Review: “Stage Kiss” — The Stages of Romance
Stage Kiss is Sarah Ruhl’s whimsical contribution to the age-old artistic theme of art vs. life.
Theater Review: Sarah Ruhl’s “Court Life” — A Losing Match
Sarah Ruhl attempts, but fails, to discover illuminating similarities between the powerful then and now.
New York Theater Round Up: “Intimacy,” “Stage Kiss,” and “Love and Information”
A trio of superb off Broadway plays explore the complicated faces of love and lust — from the seamy to the sublime.
Coming Attractions in Theater: March 2010
Highlights on stage this month include the world premiere of a drama about evolution by a respected local playwright and an intriguing collection of plays and musicals that bring an unusual perspective to topics ranging from love and music to extinction and dehumanization. And the wait is over: a show featuring singing dinosaurs has arrived. […]
Culture Vulture: Answer this “Dead Man’s Cell Phone”
Dead Man’s Cell Phone by Sarah Ruhl. Directed by Carmel O’Reilly. Produced by the the Lyric Stage Company at the YWCA Building on the corner of Clarendon Street and Stuart Street, Boston, MA, through November 14. Reviewed by Helen Epstein Improbable though it seems these days with multiple requests to turn off electronics before performances, […]
Theater Commentary: The Ruhling Class
by Bill Marx “Catharsis isn’t a wound being excavated from childhood.” – Sarah Ruhl NPR as well as New York theater critics think playwright Sarah Ruhl, the “Golden Ruhl” with “The Midas Touch,” is sure money in the artistic bank. A winner of a MacArthur “genius” grant and a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2005 for […]