Grab Your Valentine: 'Stage Kiss' Opens This Week

Psych Drama Company's production of "Stage Kiss," Sarah Ruhl's comedy about two actors caught between past and present – and reality and romance – opens this week at the Plaza Black Box Theatre at the Boston Center for the Arts. It's the perfect show for a Valentine's Day outing!

"Stage Kiss" is among the Pulitzer-nominated Ruhl's most provocative and emotional plays, delving into the "showmance" of two actors caught up in the passions of a vintage play about love and death – and caught up in their own unresolved, decades-ago romance.

The play "allows us to work with the psychologically powerful and meaningful themes of love, loss, memory, and fantasy, but it does so with levity, humor, quirkiness and joy," says star Wendy Lippe – who is also the Founding Artistic Director of Psych Drama Company.

The innovative immersive production brings the play's passions to the audience by bringing the audience into the midst of the action. All the world's a stage in this exploration of love and art, and it's on the stage that reality and performance start to merge.

"The deeper meaning at the heart of this particular immersive conceptualization is that Ruhl's 'love letter to actors' is really a 'love letter to all of us,'" Lippe adds. "Aren't we all actors in our lives and relationships whether we perform on stage or not? And in an age of utter chaos and confusion over what is real, we are all dealing with the tension between artifice and authenticity; and we are all searching for what feels real and true, just like the characters in the play."

Says Lippe's co-star, Kenny Kelleher, "'Stage Kiss' is doing a pretty damn good job of lifting our spirits in this mess of a time right now.

"It's always great to have another world to disappear into when your own is uncertain. And just like we experience this play and hope that the characters come out better for it by the end of their stories, I hope, from deep down, that we all do, too."

Check out the trailer and find your tickets here.