Taking Flight: How Sarah Ruhl’s ‘For Peter Pan’ Got Off the Ground

AMERICAN THEATRE: When is a person truly a grown-up? Is it when they get a real job, when they have a child of their own, when their parents die? Is “never” really an option? These questions are at the heart of Sarah Ruhl’s For Peter Pan on her 70th birthday, which takes the tale of the boy who never grew up for a new spin while telling a story about something we all have in common: death.