Topic: Sarah Ruhl
Playwright Sarah Ruhl, still in her 30s, is a favorite of the "edgy" theater companies around here. But why? Her plays are witless and obtuse...
Dr. Givings, New York physician circa 1880, turns on the newly installed electric light in his living room and wonders at the marvels Edison has...
Good news, Stuff Mom Never Told You listeners! Instead of waiting for the end of the week to get a recap and source list for our two episodes, I'll...
0 . Berkeley Repertory Theatre Hip monologist Mike Daisey opens the year with a double-header, a South Pacific tale, "The Last Cargo Cult" (begins...
Theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer once wrote, " Christian scholars have been wrestling over that one ever since, but in the superb, subtly withholding Passion Play, it seems like playwright Sarah Ruhl, at least, has gotten the message. Ruhl's storytelling takes a leap forward ...
On April 24th, after a fire alarm went off during tech rehearsal and propelled the fully-costumed cast of Sarah Ruhl's Passion Play out into the Fort Greene night, a Brooklyn fireman got his chance to thank Jesus personally for all he ...
William Blake laid it out pretty clearly in his 1793 poem " So it comes as a shock that when the women in Sarah Ruhl's In the Next Room or the vibrator play orgasm, their moans and cries are regarded as alien ...
Who knew the two could be linked so satisfactorily on stage?But then Thomas Edison gets profusely thanked in Sarah Ruhl's "In the Next Room or the vibrator play," a perceptive comedy about female liberation of a very specific kind.This ...
It's all there in historical accounts that inspired Ruhl, though her ensemble work directed by Les Waters is about much, much more than the machine behind an unassuming door that separates Catherine's living room from her doctor-husband's "operating theater ...
Cafe Fiorello, a popular restaurant on Broadway across from Lincoln Center in New York City, where Ruhl's play The Clean House concluded a much-acclaimed four-month run in late January. "This is Anna," Ruhl says, holding up a baby girl, gigantic for ...
