Upcoming Events
Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Les Waters
Starring Maya Hawke as Eurydice
Revival Coming May 2025 at Signature Theatre. Tickets on sale now! Order HERE.
About Eurydice
In life, Eurydice loves books…and a great musician. One of the few heroines who dies twice, she falls to the underworld on her wedding day. In death, she reunites with her father and remembers her life again. Les Waters directs an innovative reimagining of one of Sarah Ruhl’s most beloved plays, inspired by a classic myth.
Selected Shorts: Classics with a Twist with Meg Wolitzer and Friends
Wednesday, April 30 2025
Tickets on Sale HERE
Beloved host of the Selected Shorts radio show and podcast Meg Wolitzer is joined by singer, songwriter, actor Sara Bareilles (Waitress), Cindy Cheung (The Sinner), Mike Doyle (New Amsterdam), Maya Hawke (Stranger Things), Jim Parsons (The Big Bang Theory), and playwright Sarah Ruhl (Eurydice) for an evening of short fiction that reimagines timeless classics. These stories re-tell, modernize, and add an entirely new spin on stories and characters you thought you knew....
Sarah Ruhl in Conversation with Paula Vogel: On Lessons from My Teachers
Thursday, May 22 2025
Sarah Ruhl in Conversation with Polly Noonan: On Lessons from My Teachers
Monday, May 5, 2025
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Piven Theatre Workshop and Bookends & Beginnings are pleased to present an evening with the Pulitzer Prize finalist and Tony Award–nominated playwright Sarah Ruhl at Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre on May 5, 6:00 PM. The author will discuss her intimate new essay collection Lessons from My Teachers: From Preschool to the Present in conversation with a longtime creative collaborator, Chicago-based actress Polly Noonan.
Educator's Night with Sarah Ruhl at Greenlight Bookstore
Thursday, May 29, 2025 at 7:30PM
Tickets on Sale HERE
Greenlight celebrates teachers at our spring Educator's Night! At this event, we offer educators (teachers, librarians, and administrators for K-12 students) the chance to learn about new books and materials, meet authors with books relevant to your work, and find out more about Greenlight's partnership opportunities for your school. Educators receive a special 20% discount on everything in the store, tonight only, and there are door prizes and free book-related materials for educators as well!
The evening includes a book presentation by critically acclaimed author, MacArthur genius, two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, and Tony Award–nominated playwright and author, Sarah Ruhl. Based on her popular class at Yale, the masterful, intimate essay collection Lessons from My Teachers is an inspiring meditation on the life-altering bonds between teacher and student and the ineffable wisdom imparted both inside and outside the classroom. Following the presentation, a wine reception and book signing offer educators the opportunity to continue the conversation with authors, publishers, and Greenlight staff about possibilities for your school.
Lessons from my Teachers by Sarah Ruhl
Pre-order HERE
About Lessons from my Teachers
An inspiring meditation on the life-altering bonds between teacher and student and the ineffable wisdom imparted both inside and outside the classroom, from critically acclaimed author, MacArthur genius, two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, and Tony Award–nominated playwright and author, Sarah Ruhl.
Based on her popular class at Yale, this masterful, intimate essay collection from one of our greatest living playwrights and teachers, Sarah Ruhl, is a testament to the singular impact of teachers across every stage of our lives. Anchored in stories both personal and universal, drawing on Sarah’s experiences with her parents and children, with schoolteachers, creative influences, and beyond, Lessons from My Teachers offers an uplifting perspective on our basic human need to teach and learn from each other as we navigate the surprising paths that shape our lives.
Meant to be shared with loved ones and role models alike and perfect for marking important seasons and milestones, Lessons from My Teachers provides an opportunity to reflect on the human connection between teacher and student and the times in which we ourselves have assumed each role.
Sara Bareilles and Sarah Ruhl team up for stage musical of
The Interestings
Producer Matt Ross is leading the project bringing Meg Wolitzer's best-selling novel to the stage.
Wolitzer's book centers on six teenagers who meet at summer camp in the 1970s and form a lifelong bond over dreams of leading creative, inspiring lives. Decades later, all six are living in New York City, navigating their professional and personal lives as they grow together and apart.
More creative team and production details are to be announced.
Smile, The Story of a Face
by Sarah Ruhl
About SMILE
At the height of her career, with her first play opening on Broadway, and a happily married mother of three, Sarah Ruhl had just survived a high-risk twins pregnancy when she discovered the left side of her face completely paralyzed. She is assured that ninety percent of Bell’s palsy patients see spontaneous improvement and experience a full recovery. Like Ruhl’s own mother. Like Angelina Jolie. But Sarah is in the unlucky ten percent. And for a woman, wife, mother, and artist working in theater, the paralysis and the disconnect between the interior and exterior brings significant and specific challenges. So Ruhl begins an intense decade-long search for a cure while simultaneously grappling with the reality of her new face—one that, while recognizably her own—is incapable of accurately communicating feelings or intentions.
In a series of piercing, witty, and lucid meditations, Ruhl chronicles her journey as a patient, wife, mother, and artist. She explores the struggle of a body yearning to match its inner landscape, the pain of postpartum depression, the story of a marriage, being a playwright and working mom to three tiny children, and the desire for a resilient spiritual life in the face of illness.
Brimming with insight, humility, and levity, Smile is a triumph by one of America’s leading playwrights. It is an intimate examination of loss and reconciliation, and above all else, the importance of perseverance and hope in the face of adversity.
*Please contact her publicist, Anne Tate Pearce, at anne.pearce@simonandschuster.com
if you would like to schedule an engagement with Sarah.
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Listen to the unabridged audiobook of Smile on Amazon
Love Poems in Quarantine
by Sarah Ruhl
Available for Purchase
About the Book
Writing from and toward “the endless desire / to be at home in the world,” Sarah Ruhl wrote Love Poems in Quarantine to mark the passage of time when all familiar landmarks disappeared. From the dawn of the COVID-19 pandemic, to the murder of George Floyd, to months of simultaneous quarantine and protest, this is—in free verse and form, lamentation and meditation—a book of days, a survival kit for spiritual malady. These poems find small solace in domestic absurdities. Even in global crisis, there is the laundry. The dog rolls in something putrid, the child interrupts a Zoom meeting, and dinner must get made, again and again. Using language to travel and touch when bodies could not, Ruhl has drawn with great care a portrait of a year unlike any other in history.
*Please contact Tuesday Agency at info@tuesdayagency.com if you would like to schedule a speaking engagement with Sarah for Love Poems in Quarantine.
Catch EURYDICE
on PBS
"Great Performances at The Met"
About Eurydice the Opera
"The ancient Greek myth of Orpheus, who attempts to harness the power of music to rescue his beloved Eurydice from the Underworld, has inspired composers since opera’s earliest days. Brilliant American composer Matthew Aucoin now carries that tradition into the 21st century with a captivating new take on the story—a product of the Met’s commissioning program. With a libretto by Sarah Ruhl, adapted from her acclaimed 2003 play, the opera reimagines the familiar tale from Eurydice’s point of view. Yannick Nézet-Séguin oversees the momentous Met premiere from the podium, leading Aucoin’s evocative music and an immersive new staging by Mary Zimmerman. Soprano Erin Morley sings the title role, opposite baritone Joshua Hopkins as Orpheus and countertenor Jakub Józef Orli?ski as his otherworldly alter-ego. Bass-baritone Nathan Berg is Eurydice’s father and fellow resident of the underworld, with tenor Barry Banks as Hades himself."
