Early Buzz: Stage Kiss
Art and life intertwine in Stage Kiss, a play by Sarah Ruhl having its New York premiere this February at Playwrights Horizons. In the play, two actors with a personal history are chosen to play the leads in a romantic melodrama. Quickly, real life and on stage drama merge into a meta comedy.
Stage Kiss was first produced in 2011 in Chicago to highly favorable reviews. The New Yorker included Stage Kiss on its 2011 Best Theatre of the Year list saying it’s a “not to be missed” show, and Variety called it “a highly meta-theatrical, fundamentally enjoyable, slightly slight, not-so-romantic comedy pondering the complexity of onstage osculation.”
Previews begin February 7, 2014.
TICKETS
Starting at $25-$95 (click here to purchase)
DATES
February 7 through March 23, 2014 (official opening March 2, 2014)
LOCATION
Playwrights Horizons
416 West 42nd Street
New York City
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RUNNING TIME
TBD
NEWS & REVIEWS
News
Playbill
New York Premiere of Sarah Ruhl’s Stage Kiss to Feature Jessica Hecht, Dominic Fumusa and Patrick Kerr
Past Reviews
Chicago, 2011 production
The New Yorker
It’s full of buoyant hopefulness and wry wisdom about homo sapiens’ wayward heart.
Variety
There’s not one but two plays-within-a-play in Sarah Ruhl’s “Stage Kiss,” a highly meta-theatrical, fundamentally enjoyable, slightly slight, not-so-romantic comedy pondering the complexity of onstage osculation.
CAST & CREW
(partial list)
Written by Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Rebecca Taichman
Featuring Todd Almond, Clea Alsip, Michael Cyril Creighton, Dominic Fumusa, Emma Galvin, Jessica Hecht, Daniel Jenkins, Patrick Kerr