Category: United States Drama Plays

"After the Revolution is a brilliant, humorous and provocative play. . . . Herzog deftly avoids simple-minded polemics in desire of richly specific those who find themselves as able to research their relationships as they're their consciences."—Variety

"A humorous, relocating new play . . . 4,000 Miles is a quiet meditation on mortality. yet it is infrequently a downer: Ms. Herzog's altogether outstanding drama additionally illuminates how companionship could make existence significant, second via second, in death's discomforting shadow."—The long island Times

Known for delicately precise personality stories that subtly stability humor and perception, Amy Herzog is rapidly rising as a awesome new voice within the American theater. After the Revolution, an astute and ironic drama approximately how society appropriates heritage for its personal mental wishes, was once heralded by way of The ny Times as one of many Ten top New performs of 2010. Herzog's different severe hit, 4,000 Miles, is a quiet rumination on mortality within which twenty-one-year-old Leo seeks solace from his feisty ninety-one-year-old grandmother Vera in her ny apartment.

Amy Herzog got the 2011 Whiting Writers' Award and the 2008 Helen Merrill Award for Aspiring Playwrights. Her performs were produced or built on the Yale college of Drama, Ensemble Studio Theater, area degree, Lincoln middle, The Actors Theatre of Louisville, long island level and movie, Provincetown Playhouse, and ACT in San Francisco. Her most modern play, Belleville, premiered at Yale Rep in fall 2011.

"[Ruhl's Orlando] captures either the highbrow spirit and the literary brilliance of Woolf's paintings. . . . Ruhl writes with the creative sweep that enables Woolf's poetry to soar."—Variety

"Sarah Ruhl's shrewdpermanent new translation [of Three Sisters] feels fantastic to modern American ears—lean, colloquial, and conversational for us and real to Chekhov's unique work."—The Cincinnati Enquirer

In her degree version of Virginia Woolf's gender-bending, period-hopping novel, award-winning playwright Sarah Ruhl "is her traditional unfailingly stylish, unbeatably witty self, cleverly braiding her personal brand-name wit with Woolf's" (New York )magazine. conserving Woolf's important rules and lyrical tone, Ruhl brings to the degree the lifetime of an Elizabethan nobleman who is magically reworked into an immortal lady. In her clean translation of Three Sisters, the Anton Chekhov vintage of ennui and frustration, Ruhl employs her signature lyricism and stylish realizing of intimacy to bare the discontent felt through fretful Olga, unsatisfied Masha, and idealistic Irina as they lengthy to go away rural Russia for the ever-alluring Moscow.

Sarah Ruhl's different performs contain the Pulitzer Prize finalists In the following Room (or the vibrator play) and The fresh House, in addition to Passion Play, Dean Man's mobilephone Phone, Demeter within the City, Eurydice, Melancholy Play, and Late: a cowboy song. She is the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, a PEN/Laura Pels Award, and a MacArthur Fellowship. Her performs have premiered on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and in lots of theaters round the world.