Sarah Ruhl Awarded Will Glickman Award for IN THE NEXT ROOM

Sarah Ruhl has been awarded the Will Glickman Award for her new play, IN THE NEXT ROOM. The award is given out each year to the best new work to hold its world premiere in the San Francisco Bay area.

Lincoln Center Theater's production of IN THE NEXT ROOM or the vibrator play, a new play by Sarah Ruhl, directed by Les Waters, opened Thursday, November 19th at the Lyceum Theater. The cast featured Laura Benanti, Quincy Tyler Bernstine,Michael Cerveris, Maria Dizzia, Thomas Jay Ryan, Wendy Rich Stetson, and Chandler Williams. IN THE NEXT ROOM closed January 10th after 31 previers and 60 performances.

IN THE NEXT ROOM or the vibrator play, which had its world premiere this past winter at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, is a comedy about marriage, intimacy and electricity. Set at the dawn of the age of electricity and based on the bizarre historical fact that doctors used vibrators to treat "hysterical" women (and some men), the play centers on a doctor and his wife (Laura Benanti and Michael Cerveris) and how his new therapy affects their entire household. The production featured setss by Annie Smart, costumes by David Zinn, lighting by Russell Champa, sound by Bray Poor and original music by Jonathan Bell.

Sarah Ruhl returned to Lincoln Center Theater where she made her New York debut with her play The Clean House. Her other plays include Dead Man's Cell Phone, Demeter in the City, Eurydice, Late: a cowboy song, Melancholy Play, Orlando and Passion Play: a cycle. Her work has also been produced in New York at Playwrights Horizons and Second Stage and nationally at many theaters including the Goodman, Yale Rep, the Woolly Mammoth and The Berkeley Rep where In the Next Room premiered earlier this year.

Ruhls newest work, Passion Play, will have its New York premiere at the Irondale Center in Brooklyn beginning May 12th.

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