Click here to read “Audiences Can Now Analyze Dr. Ruth” by Jennifer Schuessler from The New York Times on June 21, 2012.
When Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the sex therapist, met Sigmund Freud on a fateful night in midtown Manhattan, she probably should have known what might happen nine months later. The encounter took place last fall at the New World Stages theater complex, where Dr. Westheimer had just seen “Freud’s Last Session,” the word-of-mouth Off Broadway hit by Mark St. Germain. Afterward she found herself chatting with Martin Rayner, the actor who plays Freud.