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Arts & Culture, Theater Review Mar 10, 2020
Idle Muse's In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) amuses, but falls short

Sarah Ruhl examines old-fashioned female "hysteria" and newfangled treatments.
- By Kerry Reid
- Tags: Theater Review, In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play), Idle Muse Theatre Company, Sarah Ruhl, Morgan Manasa, Kristen Alesia, Joel Thompson, Christina Renee Jones, Erin Gallagher, Chad Bay, Michelle R. Bester

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Mar 27, 2019
This Melancholy Play is also twee as hell

Sarah Ruhl’s contemporary farce crosses the line from self-awareness to self-parody.
- By Dan Jakes
- Tags: Theater Review, Melancholy Play, Organic Theater, Sarah Ruhl, Alys Dickerson, Martin Diaz-Valdes, Kris Downing, Rachael Soglin, Stephanie Sullivan, Laura Sturm, Michaela Voit

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Feb 14, 2019
Dead Man’s Cell Phone resurrects the lost art of taking other people’s messages

The Comrades' production of Sarah Ruhl's play strikes a balance between ordinary and uncanny.
- By Irene Hsiao
- Tags: Theater Review, Dead Man's Cell Phone, The Comrades, Sarah Ruhl, Arianna Soloway, Cydney Moody, Caroline Latta, Lynette Li

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Nov 2, 2017
The Comedy of Errors, Marie Christine, and eight more new stage shows to see

A cartoon-inspired staging of the Bard and a creole update of Medea are among this week's best bets.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, The Basement Company, Adam Harrell, Madison Smith, Death & Pretzels, The Comedy of Errors, Shakespare, Filament Theatre, Shakespeare All-Stars, JT Nagle, Polley Cooney, Arin Mulvaney, In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play, TimeLine Theatre, Sarah Ruhl, Mechelle Moe, In Sarah's Shadow: The Eleonora Duse Story, Olivia Lilley, Prop Thtr, Sarah Bernhardt, George Bernard Shaw, Marie Christine, Euripides, Medea, Michael John LaChiusa, BoHo Theatre, Lilli-Ann Brown, Curtis Bannister, Nicole Michelle, Kyrie Courter, Ken Singleton, Pavi Proczko, Patricia Cotter, 1980 (or Why I'm Voting for John Anderson), Jackalope Theatre, Patricia Cotter, Kaiser Ahmed, Hillary Horvath, The Tiger Who Wore White Gloves, Gwendolyn Brooks, Nora Brooks Blakely, Valerie King, Izaiah Harris, Marc Rogers, Aaron Mitchell Reese, Kemati J. Porter, Destiny Casson, Upstairs: The Musical, UpStairs Lounge, New Orleans, Wayne Self, Pride Films and Plays, Eric Coleman, Gary Trick, Yerma, Federico García Lorca, Max Truax, Theatre Y

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Aug 23, 2017
Gypsy, Machinal, and three more new theater reviews

"The greatest book musical of all time" and a Woyzeck for the jazz age are among this week's best bets.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Gypsy, Arthur Laurents, Jule Styne, Stephen Sondheim, Jerome Robbins, Rudy Hogenmiller, Music Theater Works, Gypsy Rose Lee, Madame Rose, Mary Robin Roth, burlesque, machinal, woyzeck, Georg Büchner, Sophie Treadwell, jazz age, Greenhouse Theater Center, Elizabeth Margolius, Jacob Harvey, Heather Chrisler, Cody Proctor, Walkabout Theater, A Persephone Pageant, Mark Messing, Sarah Ruhl, Morgan McNaught, Sister Africa, Stephanie Liss, Genesis Theatricals, Democratic Republic of Congo, Elayne Traunik, The Veil, Connor McPherson, Ann Radcliffe, Chekhov, Idle Muse Theatre Company, Ann Kreitman

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Apr 19, 2017
Blood at the Root, The? Unicorn? Hour?, and eight more new theater reviews

A drama based on the Jena Six and an unclassifiable show at the Neo-Futurarium are among this week's best bets.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Dominique Morrisseau, Blood at the Root, the Jena Six, Jackalope Theatre Company, the Yard, Circle Mirror Transformation, Annie Baker, Redtwist Theatre, Emily Tate, Adam Bitterman, Lynda Shadrake, Michael Sherwin, Talia Payomo, Scott Weinstein, Disney's Tarzan, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, NightBlue, Tab Murphy, Bob Tzudiker, Noni White, Phil Collins, David Henry Hwang, Kevin Bellie, Jomar Ferreras, Rachel Juncker, For Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday, Sarah Ruhl, Kathleen Ruhl, Peter Pan, Shattered Globe Theatre, Graham Cracker, Tony Mendoza, Alberto Mendoza, Angela Vela, Broad Shoulders Productions, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Luigi Pirandello, Ghostlight Ensemble, Maria Burnham, Voice of the City, Strangest Things! The Musical, Bryan Reynaud, Emily Schmidt, Christian Siebert, Molly DeCaptain, Jaron Bellar, Random Acts, Tommy Rivera-Vega, The? Unicorn? Hour?, Leah Urzendowski, Anthony Courser, Neo-Futurarium, Adrian Danzig, Visiting, Artemisia, Sarah Wisterman, Ed Proudfoot, Wounds to the Face, Howard Barker, Alison Croggon, Andrew Root, Runcible Theatre, Robert Bouwman, Grant Niezgodski, Morgan McCabe

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Sep 18, 2013
The Old Man and the Old Moon and the New Innocence

Pigpen Theatre Company's musical fable drowns in charm.
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Theater Review, Seems Pigpen Theatre Company, The Old Man and the Old Moon, Writers' Theatre, Carnegie-Mellon University, Arya Shahi, Brooklyn, Sarah Ruhl, New Innocence, Stuart Carden, the Bible, Baron von Munchhausen

Arts & Culture, Fall Preview Sep 12, 2013
The Poetry Foundation's new blood

A chat with new president Robert Polito
- By Eleni O'Connor
- Tags: Fall Preview, Fall Arts, Poetry Foundation, Robert Polito, John Barr, Lemony Snicket, Robert Pinsky, Laurence Hobgood, Sarah Ruhl, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, Poetry Out Loud, Bob Dylan, Green Mill, Danny's

Blogs, Bleader Mar 5, 2013
Victory Gardens Theater shortens its season

The company also looks for resident companies to share its space.
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: Theater, Arts, Victory Gardens Theater, Chay Yew, Dennis Zacek, Gary Griffin, Ariel Dorfman, Sandra Oh, Marcus Gardley, Luis Alfaro, Nilo Cruz, Eve Ensler, David Henry Hwang, Tony Kushner, David Lindsey-Abaire, John Logan, Craig Lucas, Sandra Oh, Suzan-Lori Parks, Jose Rivera, Anika Noni Rose, Sarah Ruhl, Jeanine Tesori, Paula Vogel, George C. Wolfe, B.D. Wong, Steven Miller, Diane Miller

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Feb 5, 2013
Recommended
There is an astonishment that There Is a Happiness That Morning Is is

Theater Oobleck remounts the 2011 hit by Mickle Maher.
- By Justin Hayford
- Tags: Performing Arts Review, Mickle Maher, There Is a Happiness That Morning Is, William Blake, Sarah Ruhl, Theater Oobleck, Diana Slickman, Colm O'Reilly, Kirk Anderson, Recommended

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Dec 5, 2012
Failure: A Love Story fails to get by on its charm

Philip Dawkins's new play needs more than a coy approach
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Performing Arts Review, Victory Gardens Theater, Philip Dawkins, Chicago River, Eastland, Seth Bockley, Sarah Ruhl, coups de theatre, death, Guy Massey, Emjoy Gavino, Baize Buzan, Michael Salinas, Janet Ulrich Brooks

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review May 12, 2011
Romance meets plain old love in Sarah Ruhl's Stage Kiss
- By Kerry Reid
- Tags: Performing Arts Review, Stage Kiss, Sarah Ruhl, Goodman Theatre, Jenny Bacon, Ross Lehman, Mark Montgomery

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Mar 24, 2011
Unafraid of Virginia Woolf

Sarah Ruhl adapts Orlando.
- By Kerry Reid
- Tags: Performing Arts Review, Orlando, Court Theatre, Virginia Woolf, Sarah Ruhl, Jessica Thebus, Amy Carle, Erica Elam, Linda Roethke

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Aug 5, 2010
A Ruhl That Doesn't Rule

A lesser effort by the Pulitzer-nominated playwright at Piven
- By Kerry Reid
- Tags: Performing Arts Review, Piven Theatre, Sarah Ruhl, Melancholy Play, Jessica Thebus, Polly Noonan, Late: A Cowboy Song, Lawrence Grimm, Sandy Dennis, Walter Kerr, Passion Play, The Clean House

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Idle Muse's In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) amuses, but falls short

Sarah Ruhl examines old-fashioned female "hysteria" and newfangled treatments.

This Melancholy Play is also twee as hell

Sarah Ruhl’s contemporary farce crosses the line from self-awareness to self-parody.

Dead Man’s Cell Phone resurrects the lost art of taking other people’s messages

The Comrades' production of Sarah Ruhl's play strikes a balance between ordinary and uncanny.

The Comedy of Errors, Marie Christine, and eight more new stage shows to see

A cartoon-inspired staging of the Bard and a creole update of Medea are among this week's best bets.

Gypsy, Machinal, and three more new theater reviews

"The greatest book musical of all time" and a Woyzeck for the jazz age are among this week's best bets.

Blood at the Root, The? Unicorn? Hour?, and eight more new theater reviews

A drama based on the Jena Six and an unclassifiable show at the Neo-Futurarium are among this week's best bets.

The Old Man and the Old Moon and the New Innocence

Pigpen Theatre Company's musical fable drowns in charm.

The Poetry Foundation's new blood

A chat with new president Robert Polito

Victory Gardens Theater shortens its season

The company also looks for resident companies to share its space.

Recommended
There is an astonishment that There Is a Happiness That Morning Is is

Theater Oobleck remounts the 2011 hit by Mickle Maher.

Failure: A Love Story fails to get by on its charm

Philip Dawkins's new play needs more than a coy approach

Romance meets plain old love in Sarah Ruhl's Stage Kiss

Unafraid of Virginia Woolf

Sarah Ruhl adapts Orlando.

A Ruhl That Doesn't Rule

A lesser effort by the Pulitzer-nominated playwright at Piven

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Sarah Ruhl examines old-fashioned female "hysteria" and newfangled treatments.

Sarah Ruhl’s contemporary farce crosses the line from self-awareness to self-parody.

The Comrades' production of Sarah Ruhl's play strikes a balance between ordinary and uncanny.

A cartoon-inspired staging of the Bard and a creole update of Medea are among this week's best bets.

"The greatest book musical of all time" and a Woyzeck for the jazz age are among this week's best bets.

A drama based on the Jena Six and an unclassifiable show at the Neo-Futurarium are among this week's best bets.

Pigpen Theatre Company's musical fable drowns in charm.

A chat with new president Robert Polito

The company also looks for resident companies to share its space.

Theater Oobleck remounts the 2011 hit by Mickle Maher.

Philip Dawkins's new play needs more than a coy approach

Sarah Ruhl adapts Orlando.

A lesser effort by the Pulitzer-nominated playwright at Piven

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