<DIV><p>"Wickedly clever . . . Ruhl's unique, breezily elegant dialogue is fully present, as is her pleasingly loopy logic."?<I>Variety</I></P><p>"In the smart, rollicking <I>Stage Kiss</I> . . . passion and fidelity engage in a kind of elegant pas de deux. . . . The play manages to be both wholly original and instantly recognizable . . . with its combination of hilarity and trenchancy."?<I>The New Yorker</I></P><p>Award-winning playwright Sarah Ruhl brings her unique mix of lyricism, sparkling humor, and fierce intelligence to her new romantic comedy, <I>Stage Kiss</I>. When estranged lovers He and She are thrown together as romantic leads in a long-forgotten 1930s melodrama, the line between off-stage and on-stage begins to blur. A "knockabout farce that channels Noël Coward and Michael Frayn" (<I>Chicago Tribune</I>), <I>Stage Kiss</I> is a thoughtful and clever examination of the difference between youthful lust and respectful love. Ruhl, one of America's most frequently produced playwrights, proves that a kiss is not just a kiss in this whirlwind romantic comedy, which will receive its New York premiere at Playwrights Horizons in winter 2014.</P><p><B>Sarah Ruhl</B>'s other plays include the Pulitzer Prize finalists <I>In the Next Room (or the vibrator play)</I> and <I>The Clean House</I>, as well as <I>Passion Play</I>, <I>Dead Man's Cell Phone</I>, <I>Demeter in the City</I>, <I>Eurydice</I>, <I>Melancholy Play</I>, and <I>Late: a cowboy song</I>. She is the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, a PEN/Laura Pels Award, and a MacArthur Fellowship. Her plays have premiered on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and have been produced in many theaters around the world.<BR></DIV>