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Jessica Hecht and Dominic Fumusa

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Jessica Hecht and Daniel Jenkins

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Michael Cyril Creighton, Dominic Fumusa, and Jessica Hecht

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Clea Alsip, Todd Almond, Patrick Kerr, Emma Galvin, and Michael Cyril Creighton

Stage Kiss


Mainstage Theater



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Running time:  Two hours and ten minutes, including one fifteen-minute intermission

Reviews
  • “CRITIC'S PICK. Suffused with warmth and humor. Sarah Ruhl frothily whips together romantic comedy and backstage farce in this lively comedy about a pair of actors — delightfully portrayed by Jessica Hecht and Dominic Fumusa — who find life and art mixing together when they rekindle an old romance during rehearsals for a play. It is nimbly directed by Rebecca Taichman. ”

    — Charles Isherwood, NY Times
  • “FOUR STARS. Sarah Ruhl delivers a brilliant comedy that aims for big laughs and hits its target. Jessica Hecht’s riotous performance will easily rank among the year’s best. Funny: There’s nothing like it. ”

    — Elisabeth Vincentelli, NY Post | Read Full Article
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  • “A GIFT AND A RARITY: a superb new romantic comedy that’s moving, smart, and flat-out hilarious. Jessica Hecht gives a career-redefining performance of such neurotic realism as to derange your internal gyroscope completely. A brilliant master class in bad acting. Dominic Fumusa’s performance is a perfectly calibrated poor-man’s Cary Grant. Rebecca Taichman’s superbly breakneck direction never lets up. You will have difficulty breathing. Stage Kiss is that funny.”

    — Jesse Green, New York magazine | Read Full Article
  • “NON-STOP ENTERTAINMENT. A crazy adorable script by Sarah Ruhl. Director Rebecca Taichman seamlessly directs a wonderful cast. Stage Kiss is a gem. Don't miss it. ”

    — Fern Siegel, Huffington Post
  • “"Stage Kiss" is that rare play that begins as a laugh-out-loud comedy and ends on a note of touching poignance. And what's in between is a hefty mix of farce, slapstick and heavy drama.”

    — Roma Torre, NY-1
  • “An excellent backstage farce. It's very smartly written—each character is unique, quirky and very funny—and it’s splendidly acted. Always charmingly hilarious, Jessica Hecht plays with obvious glee.”

    — Jesse Oxfeld, The New York Observer