United States Drama Plays

Winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama

“Rock is alive and rolling like thunder in Next to Normal. It’s the simplest musical of the season by means of a mile...an emotional powerhouse with a fireplace in its soul and a depraved wit that burns simply as fiercely.”—Rolling Stone

“No exhibit on Broadway instantly makes as a right away seize for the heart—or wrings it as thoroughly—as Next to Normal does. . . . [It] focuses squarely at the discomfort that cripples the contributors of a suburban relations, and not for a minute does it allow you to break out the soreness on the middle in their lives. Next to Normal doesn't, in different phrases, qualify as your ordinary feel-good musical. in its place this portrait of a manic-depressive mom and the folks she loves and damages is anything even more: a feel-everything musical, which asks you, with operatic strength, to find the liberation in realizing the place it hurts.”—Ben Brantley, The long island Times

Winner of 3 2009 Tony Awards, together with top unique rating (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre, Next to Normal is usually on hand in an unique forged recording. It was once named top Musical of the Season by means of Rolling Stone, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and The big apple Times.

Brian Yorkey acquired the 2009 Tony Award for top unique ranking for his paintings on Next to Normal and was once additionally nominated for most sensible ebook of a Musical. His different credit contain Making Tracks and Time After Time.

Tom Kitt bought 2009 Tony Awards for most sensible unique ranking and most sensible Orchestrations for Next to Normal. He additionally composed the song for High Fidelity and From Up Here. His string preparations seem at the new eco-friendly Day album 21st Century Breakdown, and he's the chief of the Tom Kitt Band.

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

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

In her level edition of Virginia Woolf's gender-bending, period-hopping novel, award-winning playwright Sarah Ruhl "is her ordinary unfailingly dependent, unbeatably witty self, cleverly braiding her personal brand-name wit with Woolf's" (New York )magazine. keeping Woolf's very important principles 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 figuring out of intimacy to bare the discontent felt by means of 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 comprise 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.