"Insightful, fresh and funny, the play is as rich in thought as it is in feeling . . . one of the most gifted and adventurous American playwrights to emerge in recent years . . . In the Next Room is a true novelty: a sex comedy designed not for sniggering teenage boys—or grown men who wish they were still sniggering teenage boys—but for adults with open hearts and minds." —The New York Times

“The Clean House is not, by any means, a traditional boy-meets-girl story. In fact disease, death, and dirt are among the subjects it addresses. This comedy is romantic, deeply so, but in the more arcane sense of the word: visionary, tinged with fantasy, extravagant in feeling, maybe a little nuts.” —The New York Times

"Exhilarating!! A luminous retelling of the Orpheus myth, lush and limpid as a dream where both author and audience swim in the magical, sometimes menacing, and always thrilling flow of the unconscious." —The New Yorker [on Eurydice]

"If you’ve never experienced Sarah Ruhl’s work before—or if you’ve wondered what all the fuss over the lauded American playwright is about—Melancholy Play is a good place to start. This early work . . . is whimsical, surrealistic, even absurdist somewhat in the mode of Eugene Ionesco. You worry that bad things happen to good people? Here really strange things happen to all people . . . Giddy as it is, Melancholy Play actually affords considerable psychological insight." —Dallas News