{"product_id":"9781559363600","title":"In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Best Broadway Play of 2009...Ruhl has defied gender and genre orthodoxy to give us a hilarious and moving meditation on the many factors that complicate communication between (and within) the sexes.\"---Elysa Gardner, USA Today\" \"In the Next Room is Ruhl's best play to date. Her play-writing is inspired.\"---John Lahr, New Yorker\" \"Ruhl is one of the country's brightest playwrights. In the Next Room is a true novelty: a sex comedy designed for adults with open hearts and minds. Insightful, fresh and funny, the play is as rich in thought as it is in feeling.\"---Charles Isherwood, New York Times\" \"It's safe to say that In the Next Room goes where no Broad-way show has gone before. Ruhl presents something a lot more daring than nudity: women's discovery of their own bodies and their own pleasure... A play that's smart, delicate and very, very funny.\"---Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Post\" \"Ruhl has written a smart, charming, iridescently funny-serious jewel.\"---John Simon, Bloomberg News\/Bloomberg.Com\" \"A breathtakingly inventive addition to Ruhl's singular body of work.\"---Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times\" \"In the Next Room or the vibrator play hovers at the dawn of electricity when enthusiasm for the light bulb gave rise to a handy new instrument to treat female hysteria. Ruhl, with her singular theatrical lyricism, has crafted a masterful new comedy, which went on to become a Pulitzer Prize finalist and Tony Award nominee for Best Play.\" Sarah Ruhl's plays include, The Clean House (finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and recipient of the Susan Smith Blackburn Award); Dead Man's Cell Phone (Helen Hayes Award for Best New Play); Passion Play (Kennedy Center's Fourth Freedom Forum Play-writing Award); Eurydice; Melancholy Play; Late: a cowboy song and Orlando. She is a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Theatre Communications Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47055917875440,"sku":"9781559363600","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781559363600_p0.jpg?v=1763758399","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781559363600","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}