New Haven Theater Company Presents Dear Elizabeth, by Sarah Ruhl
Directed by J. Kevin Smith

Dear Elizabeth is a warm and deeply moving story of the relationship between two of our greatest American poets. Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop, both Poet Laureates and Pulitzer Prize winners, exchanged more than four hundred letters. Ruhl’s play knits together key moments from these letters and brings theatrical life to the story of a 30-year friendship that lived almost entirely in their writing. Even as they were worlds apart, their connection was palpable, and their correspondence would become one of the greatest in American literary history.  Dear Elizabeth gives voice to this deeply moving and intimate friendship.

"Ruhl delicately explores through nothing more than the letters and her own theatrical imagination, the solitude of the artist, the exactitude of the writer's craft, the balance between confession and privacy, and, in the end, why poetry matters." - Frank Rizzo, Variety.

The cast includes company members Sandra Rodriguez and Ralph Buonocore, and visiting artist Abby Klein. Performances for Dear Elizabeth will take place on the NHTC Stage in the back of EBM Vintage, 839 Chapel Street, New Haven. Performance dates are November 7 and 14 at 7:30 p.m., and November 8, 9, 15, and 16 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $25.