Ruhl's VIBRATOR PLAY Headed to Bway
Ruhl's VIBRATOR PLAY Headed to Bway
#1Ruhl's VIBRATOR PLAY Headed to Bway
Posted: 3/18/09 at 5:19pmBerkeley Repertory Theatre’s 50th world premiere, IN THE NEXT ROOM (or the vibrator play), closed on Sunday – but the buzz continues. Today, Lincoln Center Theater announced that the script is bound for Broadway. Berkeley Rep’s associate artistic director, Les Waters, will stage a new production of Sarah Ruhl’s stimulating script at a Shubert Theater in Manhattan this fall. The show begins previews on October 22 and opens November 19. While these artists have often worked off Broadway – including bringing Eurydice to Second Stage Theatre after producing it in Berkeley – both celebrate their Broadway debuts with this play.
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
RentBoy86
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/15/05
#3re: Ruhl's VIBRATOR PLAY Headed to Bway
Posted: 3/18/09 at 6:28pmEdit: I totally misread, sorry. I'm excited to see this!
#4re: Ruhl's VIBRATOR PLAY Headed to Bway
Posted: 3/18/09 at 7:06pmyayay. i do love me some Ruhl. (sans "eurydice")
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
broadwaybelter
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/26/04
#6re: Ruhl's VIBRATOR PLAY Headed to Bway
Posted: 3/19/09 at 2:15amIt was quite fantastic at Berkeley Rep. I'm sure New York audiences will love IN THE NEXT ROOM.
#8re: Ruhl's VIBRATOR PLAY Headed to Bway
Posted: 3/19/09 at 2:33am
In the Next Room (or the vibrator play) illuminates the lives of six lonely people seeking relief from a local doctor—but, despite his expertise with a strange new technology, all they really need is intimacy. It’s a tender tale that takes place in the twilight of the Victorian age, an elegant comedy lit by unexpected sparks from the approaching era of electricity, equality, science and sexuality.
http://www.berkeleyrep.org/season/0809/2880.asp
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#9re: Ruhl's VIBRATOR PLAY Headed to Bway
Posted: 3/19/09 at 7:03am
It's called THE VIBRATOR PLAY, and you ask what it's about?
It's about the history of vibrators.
Brick
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/21/06
#10re: Ruhl's VIBRATOR PLAY Headed to Bway
Posted: 3/19/09 at 12:22pm
It's a wonderful play. I had the great fortune of seeing it last Saturday night.
Also, I'm thrilled Les Waters will be making his B'Way debut. A fantastic director.
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#11re: Ruhl's VIBRATOR PLAY Headed to Bway
Posted: 3/19/09 at 12:50pmI will never understand the critical adoration for Sarah "Whimsy-poo!" Ruhl.
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