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Stage Kiss at Hampstead Theatre: Amusing but lightweight backstage comedy

3/5 Sarah Ruhl’s theatrical comedy about two actors exes reigniting the spark entertains but lacks chemistry

Evening Standard

Letters from Max review – rich reflections on life, death and nothingness from a poet who died at 25

Sarah Ruhl’s stage adaptation of the book she wrote with her former student Max Ritvo, who died of cancer at 25, is smartly written if emotionally distant

The Guardian - UK

A Face in the Crowd at Young Vic review: a brash and gaudy musical for the Trump age

Kwame Kewi-Armah’s final production as the venue’s artistic director – a musical adapted from a 1957 movie with songs by Elvis Costello – feels like a superior high school staging

Evening Standard

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A Face in the Crowd, review: Elvis Costello’s satirical musical isn’t extreme enough to skewer Trump

Costello and playwright Sarah Ruhl adapt the 1957 film about the rise of a populist demagogue in this new, uneven Young Vic production

The Independent UK

Writers Theatre’s ‘Eurydice’ plays like poetry, down to the smallest detail

Actors bring a certain purity to visually exquisite production of Sarah Ruhl’s dreamy take on the Orpheus myth.

Chicago Sun-Times

Sarah Ruhl: ‘It’s the ultimate age of Narcissus’

The US playwright on the traumatic impact of Bell’s palsy on her life, the dangers of judging on appearances and why Jo from Little Women is her literary heroine

The Guardian - UK

Smile: The Story of a Face by Sarah Ruhl review – a bruising battle with Bell’s palsy

The playwright’s fascinating book shows how a decade-long struggle with the condition profoundly affected her sense of self

The Guardian - UK

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