Sarah Ruhl, receiving Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award, challenges writers to help America recover its soul
Playwright Sarah Ruhl, whose Eurydice has just closed at NextStop Theatre in Herndon, called upon writers to work “with new urgency” as she accepted the Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award at New York’s Lincoln Center last Monday. Ruhl, a former recipient of the MacArthur Foundation’s “genius grant,” asserted that the results of this month’s American presidential elec…