Sarah Ruhl

Playwrights Horizons: Stage Kiss, Dead Man’s Cell Phone. Other plays: How to Transcend a Happy Marriage; The Oldest Boy; In the Next Room, or the vibrator play; The Clean House; Orlando; Late: a cowboy song; Dear Elizabeth. She is a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and a Tony Award nominee. Her plays have been produced on and Off- Broadway, regionally and internationally, translated into over 12 languages. MFA: Brown University, where she studied with Paula Vogel. Awards: Steinberg Distinguished Playwright, Susan Smith Blackburn, Whiting, Lilly, PEN, MacArthur “genius” Award. In print: 100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write (Faber and Faber). She teaches at the Yale School of Drama and lives in Brooklyn with her family.

(as of 8/09/17)

• “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

• “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