Sarah Ruhl News

A touching comedy about marriage, intimacy, and electricity! (more...)

Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American TheaterÂ’s Artistic Director Molly Smith has announced that this July 2012 D.C.-area arts manager and artist David Snider will become the companyÂ’s Director of Artistic Programming. Snider will be leaving Young PlaywrightsÂ’ Theater (YPT), where he has served since 2005 as producing artistic director and CEO, to bring his multi-faceted, award-winning talents to the artistic team of Arena Stage. (more...)

Let’s face it: You have to give Paul Vasterling, the grand poobah (as both artistic director and CEO of Nashville Ballet, what other title suits him best?) of all things musical/dancical/theatrical in Music City, a whole bunch of credit for the imaginative—heretofore unexperienced—heights he has helped his company achieve and his city to claim as its own. The man has redefined the idea of collaboration while giving human form to the term “synergy” with his continuing efforts to push the creative envelope in a city filled with artistic types and their sometimes conflicting sensibilities. (more...)

The Chicago Premiere of Gruesome Playground Injuries, from 2010 Pulitzer Prize finalist Rajiv Joseph, will run July 5 - August 5, 2012, at the Chopin Theatre Downstairs, 1543 West Division, Chicago, IL. Directed by Rasaka Theatre CompanyÂ’s Artistic Director Lavina Jadhwani, press opening is Saturday, July 7, 2012 at 8 PM. For tickets and more information, visit www.rasakatheatre.com. (more...)

South Coast RepertoryÂ’s 49th season will offer audiences an exciting blend of current hits and world premieres. The season begins with Alan AyckbournÂ’s hilarious farce, Absurd Person Singular, and will include new plays by some of the hottest writers on the theatre scene, including the world premiere of Noah HaidleÂ’s Smokefall and a second world premiere to be announced; Sarah RuhlÂ’s comic tale of loss, Eurydice; the Southland debuts of Bill CainÂ’s touching How to Write a New Book for the Bible, Amanda DehnertÂ’s trailblazing musical take on Shakespeare, The Verona Project, and David Henry HwangÂ’s hit comedy Chinglish; and the West Coast premieres of Samuel D. HunterÂ’s poignantly funny The Whale and Stephen Adly GuirgisÂ’ Broadway hit The Motherf**ker with the Hat. (more...)

Following an acclaimed season which included the world premiere of Paul WeitzÂ’s Lonely, IÂ’m Not and a critically lauded second staging of Paula VogelÂ’s Pulitzer Prize-winner, How I Learned To Drive, Second Stage Theatre (Carole Rothman, Artistic Director) has just announced two of the four mainstage productions in the companyÂ’s upcoming 34th season. For subscription or ticket information, please call the Second Stage Box Office at 212-246-4422 or visit the companyÂ’s website, www.2ST.com. All productions are staged at Second StageÂ’s Tony Kiser Theatre, 305 West 43rd Street (just west of Eighth Avenue). (more...)

The Obie Award-winning Clubbed Thumb recently held a kickoff for its 17th annual program of new plays by emerging writers -- SUMMERWORKS 2012, running May 26-June 30 at the HERE Arts Center in Soho. Actors, playwrights, directors and designers joined Clubbed Thumb's Producing Artistic Director Maria Striar at the SUMMERWORKS launch party. See photos from the event below! (more...)

The Chicago Commercial Collective today announced the return of the Chicago and Broadway hit drama, A Steady Rain, with its original cast and crew to the Chicago Dramatists, 1105 W. Chicago Ave. (more...)

An aspiring comedian from Brazil more interested in finding the perfect joke than cleaning takes a job as a house keeper in Sarah RuhlÂ’s wildly funny play, THE CLEAN HOUSE, opening May 25 on the Los Altos stage and playing through June 16. (more...)

Sarah RuhlÂ’s critically acclaimed play In The Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) highlights ACT 1Â’s 2012-13 season, which is revealed today. Also on the season: a new adaptation of Dark of the Moon, Neil SimonÂ’s Broadway Bound and IbsenÂ’s classic A DollÂ’s House. (more...)

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company announces the public launch of its fundraising campaign Free the Beast, an innovative effort that will support the production of 25 new plays starting 2012 through 2022. (more...)

To celebrate the centennial year of the Authors League, The Dramatists Guild of America unveils archived audio unheard by the public since its initial recording. Over the next year, In the Room will host some of the most celebrated playwrights, composers and lyricists in the American theatre discussing craft while sharing their influences and experiences creating some of their most celebrated work. Currently featured is a session with Tina Howe and Sarah Ruhl, originally recorded in 2007. (more...)

Rehearsals began today (5/8) for Women's Project off-Broadway world premiere play titled from the famous Ellen Stewart quote We Play for The Gods, a the seven-playwright, four-director, three-producer and five-actor collaborative show. (more...)

To celebrate the centennial year of the Authors League, The Dramatists Guild of America invites you to join us as we unveil archived audio unheard by the public since their initial recording. Over the next year, In the Room will host some of the most celebrated playwrights, composers and lyricists in the American theatre discussing craft while sharing their influences and experiences creating some of their most celebrated work. Currently featured is a session with Tina Howe and Sarah Ruhl, originally recorded in 2007. (more...)

The annual season of new plays at Summer Works is presented the Obie Award-winning theater company Clubbed Thumb -- has announced complete casting for its 17th season running May 26 to June 30 at the HERE Arts Center (145 Sixth Ave. at Dominick Street) in Manhattan. (more...)

id Theater returns to McCall, Idaho for the 12th Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, June 11-23, sponsored by the Alpine Playhouse. Playwrights, actors and directors from around the country will travel to McCall and, working with local artists and students, develop ten new plays that will be presented to the public free of charge. Since 2001, the Conference has developed more than 100 new plays by some of the most exciting voices in American Theater. (more...)

Piece by Piece productions, Rising Phoenix Repertory, and Rattlestick Playwrights Theater have announced that the world premiere of 3C, written by David Adjmi and directed by Jackson Gay, will begin performances Wednesday, June 6 at 7pm at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, 224 Waverly Place. The opening night is set for Thursday, June 21 at 7pm. (more...)

Women's Project will end its 34th season with an off-Broadway show of epic proportions when seven playwrights, four directors, three producers and five actors collaborate on one world premiere play titled from the famous Ellen Stewart quote We Play for The Gods. We Play for The Gods stars Annie Golden, Amber Gray, Alexandra Henrikson, Irene Sofia Lucio and Erika Rolfsud. It begins performances Friday, June 1, at 8:00pm, opens Monday, June 11, at 7:30pm for a run through Saturday, June 23, at the Cherry Lane Theatre, 38 Commerce Street. (more...)

Macha Monkey will present the northwest premiere of Stephanie TimmÂ’s Sweet Nothing, a (grim) fairytale at Annex TheatreÂ’s space in June 2012. (more...)

Award-winning theatre company, Son of Semele Ensemble (SOSE), will present the West Coast premiere of Sheila Callaghan's Roadkill Confidential: A Noir-ish Meditation On Brutality, opening June 8 at the Son of Semele Theater in Silver Lake. This biting satire about the connection between voyeurism, sadism, and paranoia is a hilarious and exhilarating mash-up of styles and genres. (more...)