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Sarah-Ruhl

Theater Review: “Orlando” — Asking What Gender Really Means

There is much to love in this Lyric Stage Company production and I recommend it highly.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: A. Nora Long, Lyric Stage Company, Orlando, Sarah-Ruhl, Virginia Woolf

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.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Culture Vulture, Rebecca Taichman, Sarah-Ruhl, The-clean-house, Williamstown-Theatre-Festival

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.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Courtney O’Connor, Culture Vulture, Lyric stage company of boston, Sarah-Ruhl, Stage Kiss

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.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Justin Sacamone, Mark Wing-Davey, Sarah-Ruhl, Scenes From The Court Life or the whipping boy and his prince, Yale Repertory Theatre

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.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Caryl Churchill, Intimacy, Love and Information, Sarah-Ruhl, Stage Kiss, Thomas Bradshaw

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. […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Featured, Theater Tagged: Actors' Shakespeare Project, American Repertory Theater, Apple, Arsenal Center for the Arts, Boston, Boston Center for the Arts, Catalyst Collaborative@MIT, Central Square Theatre, Company One, Holland Productions, Huntington-Theatre-Company, Jim Petosa, Melancholy Play, Melinda-Lopez, Michael Hollinger, New Repertory Theatre, Opus, Othello, Peter-DuBois, Publick-Theatre, Sarah-Ruhl, Shakespeare, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Stoneham Theatre, The Adding Machine, Theater, Underground Railway Theater, Vern Thiessen

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, […]

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: Culture Vulture, Dead Man's Cell Phone, Lyric Stage Company, Sarah-Ruhl

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 […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: art-hennessey, Featured, John-Lahr, Persona Non Grata, Sarah-Ruhl, The-clean-house, Theater

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