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  Stage Kiss at Guthrie Theatre

Stage Kiss

Guthrie Theatre
818 South 2nd Street Minneapolis

Does art imitate life? Or does life imitate art? From Pulitzer finalist and Tony Award nominee Sarah Ruhl (Dead Man’s Cell Phone, In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play)) is this wickedly clever and charming tale about what happens when lovers share a stage kiss — or when actors share a real one. When two actors with a history are thrown together as romantic leads in a forgotten 1930s melodrama, they quickly lose touch with reality as the story onstage follows them offstage. The New York Times hailed Ruhl’s new play a “daffy comedy about the emotional pitfalls of the acting life.” The New York Post said it “aims for big laughs and hits its target.” Vulture raved “Stage Kiss itself is a gift and a rarity: a superb new romantic comedy that does justice to both sides of the genre equation. It’s moving, smart, and flat-out hilarious.” Make a date night for one of the hottest new plays to hit the stage.

Thru - Aug 30, 2015



Price: $15-$71

Box Office: 612-377-2224

www.guthrietheater.org/plays_events/plays/stage_kiss


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  Stage Kiss Reviews

Twin Cities Pioneer Press - Recommended

"...Playwright Sarah Ruhl has an undeniable facility with language and character. She's been around the theater long enough to render portraits of goofy directors, insecure actresses and grown actors afflicted with Peter Pan Syndrome in a way that's pointed but affectionate. She adeptly and lovingly conveys the pace, tenor and language of a substandard 1930s drama. And she can have her characters wax philosophical -- about the difference between sex on stage and sex in the cinema, or about why marriage is like a tattoo -- with the ring of truth and without sounding pretentious or preachy."
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Dominic P. Papatola


How Was The Show - Recommended

"...The offbeat and many times unpredictable nature of the proceedings is delivered with a refreshing dose of dry irreverence. The show knows and reveres the tropes it mines, but it is also marked by a restless impulse to spice things up. That being said, the play never veers too far into unconventionality for its own sake, and doesn’t seem too in love with its own words."
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David and Chelsea Berglund


Aisle Say Twin Cities - Highly Recommended

"...To every theatre-goer who has witnessed a passionate onstage kiss and wondered if it was real: Sarah Ruhl is here for you. Make a date to see the Guthrie’s production of Stage Kiss before summer’s end!"
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Liz Byron



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