When I first saw Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice at Second Stage Theater in 2007, I found the play mawkish and pretentious. What's more, its retelling of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice seemed at the time self-conscious and twee. Nearly twenty years later, encountering the work again in a production by Signature Theatre, I had an entirely different response. I was struck by the play's gorgeous lyricism, staggering intelligenc…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:58AM on June 3, 2025