NEW YORK THEATRE REVIEWS

Superbly played on target by Ruth Kulerman. I don’t know when a show has made me laugh so hard. 
NEW YORK POST: Jerry Tallmer (Quintessential Image–a two character comedy)

Ruth Kulerman imbues her role with a subtle sense of caricature and honesty and self-acceptance with confidence and good humor in this Norman Lear-style comedy. Blowzy and eccentric she slouches
onto the stage and rattles on…
NEW YORK TIMES: Stephen Holder (Quintessential Image)

It’s captivating stuff, thanks in part to vivid supporting performances by CH, MM and by Ruth Kulerman as a foul mouthed grandmother.
NEW YORK TIMES: Neil Genzlinger (Portia Coughlan)

Played with cozy battiness by Ruth Kulerman
NEW YORK TIMES: Sarah Boxer (The Idiot)

The thirteen skilled actors in this production transport you back to Shakespeare’s day effortlessly.
NEW YORK TIMES: Neil Genzlinger (Elizabeth Rex)

Uniformly strong cast.
THE NEW YORKER (9/10/08) (Elizabeth Rex)

Ruth Kulerman does an outstanding job with her character Edna, giving her role depth and dimension. Seeing this actor make Edna totally believable is worth the price of admission. There is some wonderful writing in “Bedside Manners” waiting to be developed and brought to life the way Ruth Kulerman managed to do.
THEATRE REVIEWS.COM: David Roberts (Bedside Manners)

The acting was riveting. Kulerman’s queen was charming, flirtatious, and autocratic by turns. During hallucinatory scenes she remembered her brutal father, her fractured adolescence, and her dead son, to whom she was as bad a parent as her father was to her. Though stout, she was a tiny woman, with tiny feet tucked into embroidered slippers that reminded one of the bound feet of a Chinese concubine, and her life had been just as stunted. During her medicated spells

Kulerman’s face is a mask of zonked-out unhappiness. Lepre’s writing was superb in the way he wove together the character’s unreliable memories and her terror and rage against her present situation.
OOBR: Arlene McKanis (The Hat Left Behind)

Ruth Kulerman was brilliant, authoritarian, whimsical, but funny, good-tempered and kind
VESTNIK (NY Russian Newspaper): Bella Ezerskaya (The Idiot)

Best in sustaining the meaty speeches on the part of the actors are Ruth Kulerman and MG.
CURTAIN UP.COM: David Lipfert (The Idiot)

The cast is surprisingly good, especially Ruth Kulerman
NBC RADIO: Fleetwood (Quintessential Image–a 2 character play)

A very funny comedy with a fine performance by Ruth Kulermanh 
WNEW: Richard Shepard (Quintessential Image)

A wildly funny two-character verbal farce. Ruth Kulerman is droll, like a roller coaster running over a string of firecrackers.
VILLAGE VOICE: Michael Feingold (Quintessential Image)

Funniest late-nite show in town (Mother Vale in John Glines’ spoof of “Now Voyager.”)
VILLAGE VOICE: McNulty (How Now, Voyager)

Director Aaron Beall has assembled an apparently able cast but hasn’t encouraged them to form realtionship with one another each performs his or her part tolerably well in a sort of vacuum.
VILLAGE VOICE: Alexis Soloski (Portia Coughlan)

In the course of the day Portia will encounter the scrappy members of her dysfunctional family…her foul-mouthed, wheelchair bound old harridan of a grandmother, Blaize…Ruth Kulerman is believable as the profane wreck of a grandmother.
IRISH ECHO (Largest weekly Irish newspaper) Joseph Hurley (Protia Coughlan)

Ruth Kulerman makes for a lovably indiscreet Lacey Lanier, layering dotty manners with sweetly whimsical aplomb.
BACKSTAGE: Michael Summers (Quintessential Image)

As the mother, Mary Byrne, Ruth Kulerman goes for the poetry.
BACKSTAGE (Tinker’s Wedding)

Ruth Kulerman savors the tasty tidbits of Lucas’ wry satire
BACKSTAGE (What I Meant Was — by Craig Lucas)

Playing the harried Irish maid, Ruth Kulerman was most amusing.
BACKSTAGE (Alison’s House–Mint Theater Co.)

Compliments to Ruth Kulerman, Stanhope’s maid.
TOTAL THEATER: David Lipfert (Alison’s House–Mint Theater Co.)

For this exercise in poetic realism, director Aaron Beall and his sturdy cast must continually struggle against their surroundings (Todo con NADA Show World at the Times Square Show World Theatre) BACKSTAGE (Portia Coughlan)

Wildly improbable. Miss Kulerman is passable.
JOHN SIMON (Quintessential Image)

Portia’s grandmother, still a flame-haired firebrand despite being confined to a wheelchair makes sure nobody forgets the bad marriages and low-class taint that afflict the clan today, while the others try to shut her up. The cast handles a motley collection of characters very capable.{Ruth Kulerman played Portia’s grandmother]
OFFOFFOFF.COM: Joshua Tanzer (Blaize Scully in Marina Carr’s Portia Coughlan)

Horton and Kulerman fare the best among the rest of the supporting cast.
[Note: This role has about 20 lines in a play that runs 2.5 hours. Performed role when play was moved to Off Broadway]
OFFOFFONLINE: Suzanne Lynch (Countess of Henslowe in Elizabeth Rex–Off Broadway production)

Ruth Kulerman is quietly dignified Countess of Henslowe
BROADWAYWORLD.COM: Jena Tesse Fox (Elizabeth Rex in the Off Broadway production)

A wonderful supporting cast creates a terrific texture upon which the main drama unfolds.
TALKING BROADWAY: “The Siegel Column” (Elizabeth Rex)

Ruth Kulerman shows us the human behind Lady Henslowe. We see the great humor and strength. In the hands of a lesser actress Henslowe could be a stock character but Kulermanh colors her like a rainbow.
STEPHANIE BARTON-FARCAS (Producer Elizabeth Rex Off Broadway production)

Preachy Puritanical mother. Perhaps cutting and trimming would allow the audience to focus on the superb acting of every member of the cast.
GO BROADWAY (Bklyn Newspaper) Paulanna Simmons (31 Bond Street. 4 roles)

It takes real talent, well in command of her art [Ruth Kulerman] to play 4 different characters–no mistaking one character for the other, Amazed the audience.
BROOKLYN ON LINE.COM Brett Whykoop (31 Bond Street)

The performances and text are fun.
THEATER WEEK: Dorothy Chansky (Quintessential Image. 2 character play)

Well sung. Incorporation of music and text is a key virtue of the production [Mrs. Wall, the musician]
THEATRE WEEK: Joan Ungaro (Holy Ghosts)

A resourceful Ruth Kulerman has a nice moment in Act One as the flamboyant Mme. Olga St. Valentine
InTHEATER (A Loss of Roses)

Mme. Olga St. Valentine (Ruth Kulerman), an old time actress is an outspoken, short, flamboyant redheaded woman. She shamelessly stashes a pie in her purse–typical behavior of an eccentric old lady.
CHELSEA CLINTON NEWS: Mary Anne Christiano (A Loss of Roses)

Triple A. Our highest rating. Everyone must see this show. Fantastic.
AUDIENCE EXTRAS: (Black, White & Blue)

Skilled, seasoned performer (Ruth Kulerman)
TOWN & VILLAGE: (Bedside Manners)

Ruth Kulerman comes tumbling out with life-affirming force in this hilarious;
NY LAW JOURNAL: (Quintessential Image)

Ruth Kulerman’s cuddly, unaffected genius endears her to everyone in the house.
NY NATIVE: (Quintessential Image)

Kulerman is just about perfect.
NY OUTWEEK: (Quintessential Image)

Played perfectly by Ruth Kulerman.
VILLAGER: Lucy Rector (Quintessential Image)

Ruthe Kulerman is exceptionally funny in this piecing satire.
GREENPOINT GAZETTE: Carol Albert (Quintessential Image)

Played with excellent comic flair by Ruth Kulerman.
PRIVATE LIVES (Quintessential Image)

Ruth Kulerman has been perfectly cast in her role.
DOWNTOWN (Quintessential Image)

Ruth Kulerman is a natural. WILDE SIDE (Quintessential Image)

Divertente (entertaining) OGGI (NYC Italian Newspaper) (Quintessential Image)

Entire cast is just grand. Deliciously faithful parody.(Cruel Bostonian Matriarch) MARTIN’S GUIDE (How, Now Voyager)

Domineering mother played like a queen (Mother Vale)
VILLAGE PAPER (How Now Voyager)

Wonderful and endearing in her portrayal of this great lady (Aunt Lily–the lead) VILLAGE REVIEW: Bill Jackson (Key West)

Creates an unusual character in Aunt Lily.
GREENWICH VILLAGE PRESS (Key West)

Like a reincarnated widow Paroo, Ruth Kulerman bustles about merrily…Her voice drops a register when tired or exasperated.
NIGHT OUT: L.D, Cole (Key West)

Good Ensemble playing by Ruth Kulerman
OOBR: Dudley Stone (Anfisa in Three Sisters)