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The Heidi Chronicles.

Wendy Wasserstein

Wendy Wasserstein's Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning play, The Heidi Chronicles, is the tale of a baby-boomer's long, hard road from '60s confusion to '90s self made woman...or so she hopes. Directed by Molly Smith.
Starring: Lisa Akey, Kosha Engler, Kaitlin Hopkins, Lisa Pelikan, Martha Plimpton, Scot Reese, Raphael Sbarge, Grant Shaud
The Heidi Chronicles: Uncommon Women and Others & Isn't It Romantic

Wendy Wasserstein

The graduating seniors of a Seven Sisters college, trying to decide whether to pattern themselves after Katharine Hepburn or Emily Dickinson. Two young women besieged by the demands of mothers, lovers, and careers—not to mention a highly persistent telephone answering machine—as they struggle to have it all. A brilliant feminist art historian trying to keep her bearings and her sense of humor on the elevator ride from the radical sixties to the heartless eighties.

Wendy Wasserstein's characters are so funny, so many-sided, and so real that we seem to know them from their Scene One entrances, though the places they go are invariably surprising. And these three plays—Uncommon Women and Others, Isn't It Romantic, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Heidi Chronicles—manage to engage us heart, mind, and soul on such a deep and lasting level that they are already recognized as classics of the modern theater.
The Sisters Rosensweig

Wendy Wasserstein

Wasserstein, who won a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award for The Heidi Chronicles, writes of three Jewish middle-aged sisters-Sara, Gorgeous, and Pfeni-who come together in London to celebrate Sara’s birthday. Winner of the Outer Critics Circle Award. Photographs.
Uncommon Women and Others.

Wendy Wasserstein
Isn't It Romantic

Wendy Wasserstein
An American Daughter

Wendy Wasserstein

Lyssa Dent Hughes is the privileged, well-educated daughter of a Republican senator. She is the wife of a professor and the owner of a lovely house in Georgetown. She is also the president's nominee for Surgeon General. When the media discovers that once, long ago, she failed to respond for jury duty, this relatively minor misstep is portrayed as a serious moral lapse. A good friend uses the incident to make a point, scarcely thinking of the implications, and Lyssa must suffer the consequences. From that moment on, Lyssa Dent Hughes sits helplessly as the press investigates her family and friends, shattering her privacy, her career, and her world. Wendy Wasserstein's trenchant humor and sizzling dialogue combine with biting political commentary to produce a masterful, and topical, drama.
Drama for Reading and Performance: Collection 1

Aurand Harris, Horton Foote, Gary Soto, Wendy Wasserstein, David Ives, Merrill Markoe, Bertolt Brecht, Celeste Raspanti
Shiksa Goddess: Or, How I Spent My Forties

Wendy Wasserstein
Old Money: A Play

Wendy Wasserstein

A dinner party in an ornate mansion on the fashionable Upper East Side of Manhattan provides the scene for this witty and incisive play. Set in two eras--the early 1900s and our own Gilded Age--the characters move effortlessly from one period to the other. The host, a contemporary master of high-risk arbitrage, steps in and out of character as a robber baron of an earlier time. His guests of today include a Hollywood director, a not-so-cutting-edge sculptor, an online lingerie designer, an aggressive publicist, and an aging historian. Their counterparts from the past are the great man's rebellious son, a grand dame of New York society, the architect who built the mansion originally, and the maids and servants who maintain it.
In this dance of rich storytelling and social commentary, it becomes strikingly clear that while old money has become new, little else has changed over the years. Children still rebel against their controlling parents, women still hope for love, and greed, snobbery, and angst persist.
The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 2004: Six Important New Plays by Women from the 25th Anniversary Year (Contemporary Playwrights)

The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, established in 1978, is awarded annually to a woman who deserves recognition for having written a work of outstanding quality for the English-speaking theater. The prize is administered in Houston, London, and New York by a board of directors who choose six judges each year, three in the United States and three in Britain. The presentation ceremonies, which honor all finalists, are held either in New York, London, or Houston.
The endowment currently awards a first prize of $10,000, with Special Commendations of $2,000, and $500 to each remaining finalist. Willem de Kooning, a friend and admirer of Susan, created and signed a limited edition of prints for winners, judges, directors, and major contributors.The endowment receives contributions from Susan's friends and from others who recognize the importance of the prize.
Our permanent list of finalists is an important resource for theaters interested in new work. Many playwrights have received productions, grants, and public recognition as a direct result of being included on this list. The prize has helped to motivate women to write for the theater, and it has fostered an interchange of plays between the United States and Britain, Ireland, and other English-speaking countries. The prize has anticipated later recognition. Six finalists have subsequently won the Pulitzer Prize for drama: Margaret Edson, Beth Henley, Marsha Norman, Suzan-Lori Parks, Paula Vogel, and Wendy Wasserstein. The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize is firmly established as a preeminent international playwriting competition.
Ten out of Ten: Ten Winning Plays