Samuel French Theatre and Film Bookshop
7623 Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90046
United States
Free and open to the public
Join playwrightand author Sarah Ruhl for a special publication-date reading and signing of Letters from Max: A Book of Friendship alongside Beth Henley.
Sarah Ruhl
Sarah Ruhl’s plays include In the Next Room, or the vibrator play (Pulitzer Prize finalist, Tony Award nominee), and The Clean House (Pulitzer Prize finalist, winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize), among many others. She is recipient of the MacArthur “genius” grant, and of, most recently, the 2016 Steinberg Prize. She is currently on the faculty of the Yale School of Drama and lives in Brooklyn with her family.
Studded with poems and songs, this correspondence is a deeply moving portrait of a friendship, and a shimmering exploration of love, art, mortality, and joy.