13P in the house (in the next room, of course).

13P onstage at Joe's Pub. Ruhl above head standing in way of camera. (Photo: Jim Baldassare)

Are there any young writers that you are particularly interested in? Maybe anybody you've mentored or whose work you just enjoy watching and following?
SARAH RUHL: Yes. I just did a panel yesterday with Annie Baker, who I think is really something. I thought Circle Mirror Transformation was really lovely. And all my colleagues at 13P — a group of writers. There are 13 of us, and we're our own artistic directors of our own plays. The group came about because we were all sick of [the endless development of our plays], so here, we don't just develop our plays but can throw them up without a huge budget. Young Jean Lee is in the group. Rob Handel, Winter Miller, Anne Washburn. I'm really fascinated by everything that that group does.

(Complete interview at Playbill.com)

Maria Dizzia!

Maria Dizzia, Thomas Jay Ryan, Wendy Rich Stetson and Michael Cerveris In the Next Room. Photo by Joan Marcus.

entering into theatrical legend

About two and a half hours into the play... the church’s fire alarm went off, requiring the audience and the performers to leave the building. But rather than suspend the production for the night, the cast continued, in the chilly April air, to perform the play on the church’s steps, illuminated by street lights, flashlights and the occasional cell phone.

Passion Play: Spontaneous Street Performance (video)

A Pulitzer juror explains why the choice for drama is often puzzling.

Charles McNulty in the LA Times