Word: wasserstein
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Wendy Wasserstein Directed by Daniel Sullivan at Shubert Theatre through February...
...Wendy Wasserstein has a knack for turning personal experience into brilliantly evocative plays that reach audiences of all backgrounds. Her first was about college students at her alma mater Mt. Holyoke; her next about young single women living in New York. The Sisters Rosensweig, her most recent Broadway success now on national tour, is about three sisters remarkably like Wasserstein and her two sisters...
Gorgeous is everything that Sara ran away from. She lives in Newton with her nice Jewish lawyer husband and her adorable children and quotes from her rabbi incessantly. As written by Wasserstein, she is a vivacious, scene-stealing steamroller of a sister. The way that Caroline Aaron plays her in the first act, however, Gorgeous comes off as little short of a parody. Aaron is so over the top with lines like "you're wandering how I got my name, well, isn't it obvious?" that you can almost picture her dropping in on Linda Richman's Coffee Talk...
...Pfeni, who, as Sara puts it, "is on a permanent junior-year-abroad." McMurtrey is properly zany and funny as the madcap youngest sister and even makes her relationship with Geoffrey seem believable. She is less convincing when agonizing over her career but that is partly the fault of Wasserstein, who, as always, shows more interest in people's relationships to each other than in their relationship to their work...
...largest grant program administered through OPIA is the Wasserstein and Andres summer grant program, which was established...