Playwright Sarah Ruhl’s first book of poetry, <em>44 Poems for You</em>, offers poems that form a subtle, personal meditation on family, motherhood, and loss. With a finely tuned ear for language, Ruhl’s poetry sings with a humbling honesty about what it means to share our lives with others and with those who form our hollows: a miscarriage, a close friend lost to cancer, and the sublimity of nature. She delves into womanhood through the physical reality of the everyday, and shows us...
“Satire is her oxygen. . . . In her new oddball comedy, Dead Man’s Cell Phone , Sarah Ruhl is forever vital in her lyrical and biting takes on how we behave.”— The Washington Post “Ruhl’s zany probe of the razor-thin line between life and death delivers a fresh and humorous look at the times we live in.”— Variety “Sarah Ruhl is deliriously imaginative and fearless in her choice of subject matter. She...
After their father dies, five siblings find themselves around the kitchen table of their childhood, pouring whiskey and sharing memories. The eldest, Ann, reminisces about her days playing Peter Pan at the local children’s theater, and soon the five are transported back to Neverland. For Peter Pan on her 70th birthday is a fantastical exploration of the enduring bonds of family, the resistance to “growing up,” and the inevitability of growing old.
Premiered at the Lincoln Center Theater (Off-Broadway) in the winter of 2017<p><p> Ruhl teaches playwriting at Yale School of Drama<p><p> Sarah Ruhl's other plays include the Pulitzer Prize finalists <i>In the Next Room (or the vibrator play)</i> and <i>The Clean House</i><p><p> One of the top five most-produced playwrights from 2014 – 2016. <p><p> Ruhl is the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, a...
– "Clean House and Other Plays" sold over 18,000 copies since Oct. 2006, now in its 6th printing. – «Dead Man's Cell Phone» sold 8,000 copies since publication in June 2008. Third printing is sceduled for September 2009. – Will release «Passion Play» on December 2009. -Most produced woman playwright in the U.S for the past three years.
Coauthor Sarah Ruhl is Pulitzer Prize finalist and Tony Award nominated playwright whose book 100 Essays I Don’t Have Time To Write was a New York Times Notable Book in 2014 Coauthor Max Ritvo’s Four Reincarnations was named a Best Book of 2016 by Lit Hub, Shelf Awareness , the Irish Times , and Adroit Journal ; it was reviewed by the New York Times Book Review , O, The Oprah Magazine , Publishers Weekly (starred), Booklist (starred), hailed as “one of the most original and...
Named one of the «Ten Best Plays of 2008» by The New Yorker “Sarah Ruhl’s bold, inventive, and ironic triptych [is] a meditation on devotion and its appropriation by the state. . . . Ruhl is an original; a storyteller with a fine mind evolving her own theatrical idiom.”—John Lahr, The New Yorker “It’s a different kind of morality play . . . an often wondrous work . . . with [Ruhl’s] own special lyrical blend of poetry, humor...
“Passionate. Show-stopping. Daringly over-the-top and impressively consistent in its delirious excess. The Clean House shines.”— New Haven Advocate “ The Clean House is not, by any means, a traditional boy-meets-girl story. In fact disease, death, and dirt are among the subjects it addresses. This comedy is romantic, deeply so, but in the more arcane sense of the word: visionary, tinged with fantasy, extravagant in feeling, maybe a little...
