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What do these increasingly fantastical scenes mean? The audience may never be quite sure, but one thing is certain: playwright Tina Howe, overpraised in the past for her wan Wasp tone poems (Painting Churches, Coastal Disturbances), has infused new energy into her work. At the same time, she has sustained her gift for hinting at profound meanings in humdrum moments. To Howe, the eternal in life is clearest in its ephemerality; the memories that haunt us to the end of our days are of the most ordinary, and thus revealing, events...
...same time, Suwelo's wife, Fanny Nzingha, daughter of Olivia from The Color Purple, goes to Africa to learn about her own roots. She finds her father, a dissident playwright who somehow manages to keep his job as Minister of Culture of a fictional African republic while he is regularly thrown into jail for writing scathing plays...
...playwright does not deny that bad reviews wound. But these days, there is also a keen pride as Wasserstein views her handiwork on Broadway. "I'm normally a self-deprecating person," she says, putting it mildly. "But when I saw those women on stage in the feminist rap group, I said, 'Good for them, and good for us.' This is a play of ideas. Whether you agree or not doesn't matter...
...Girl" in New York Woman magazine, "I don't think about being funny very much because it's how I get by. For me it's always been a way to be likable but removed." The result is that outsiders can misinterpret her manner and mistakenly belittle her talent. Playwright Terrence McNally complains that "what people often miss about Wendy is the thoughtful, passionate, mature womanly side of her. She is far more interesting as a mature artist than as this giggling, girlish, daughter-person that people want to take care...
...days after Heidi opened on Broadway, Wendy's parents Lola and Morris Wasserstein were asked about their youngest daughter, the successful playwright. Much of the conversation sounded like a leftover scene from Isn't It Romantic. "We're very proud," said Lola, who even in her 70s takes four dance classes a day. "But there's a vacuum," added Morris, a prosperous Manhattan businessman. "Where's the children? Where's the husband?" Here Lola broke in, "Normally, I'm the one to say that. But today I'm on good behavior." A few moments later, the Wassersteins were asked...