The Crucible, has withstood all manner of productions, from starry Broadway to high school drama club, and it will withstand Sarah Ruhl’s crass replay, Becky Nurse of Salem
View More [NYC] BECKY NURSE OF SALEM (Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center)Tag: Sarah Ruhl
ORLANDO (Villanova): Blurred lines
As Orlando journeys through genders and centuries, the pain and beauty of being a human in a body is explored with a vibrant commitment to the process of theater-making.
View More ORLANDO (Villanova): Blurred linesPhiladelphia theater through the eyes of J. Cooper Robb, Part 2: 2004
Revisiting Philly theater history through the eyes of one of its finest critics.
View More Philadelphia theater through the eyes of J. Cooper Robb, Part 2: 2004EURYDICE (Villanova Theatre): Death is a continuation of life
Death, as experienced in director James Ijames’s comic yet movingly evocative production of Sarah Ruhl’s play, is a continuation of life.
View More EURYDICE (Villanova Theatre): Death is a continuation of lifeDEAR ELIZABETH (People’s Light & Theatre Company): Kindred Spirits in Poetry and Depression
Is a play told solely through the extant letters of its real-life characters really a play? Sarah Ruhl’s DEAR ELIZABETH, which traces the friendship between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell through their thirty years of correspondence (1947-77), seems more of a pedantic academic exercise in hero worship by a playwright who began her writing career as a poet and an admirer of Bishop’s oeuvre.
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