Word: wasserstein
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Playwright Wendy Wasserstein exudes a fuzzy warmness that belies an ambitious and successful career in the theater. Her play Uncommon Women and Others, starring Jill Eikenberry, Swoosie Kurtz, and Glenn Close, was produced off-Broadway when she was 27. She received half a dozen awards for The Heidi Chronicles five years ago, including the Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award (the first ever given to a woman dramatist without a male collaborator). Her latest, The Sisters Rosensweig, which received an Outer Critics Circle Award and Tony nomination on Broadway, opens in Boston today. In a conversation with The Harvard Crimson...
...article in last Tuesday's Crimson about the visit of playwright Wend Wasserstein should have mentioned that the event was sponsored by Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel...
...Wasserstein believes that The HeidiChronicles affected popular views of women andthe Baby Boom generation because "the theater isstill where different voices and ideas come from."She said the theater will continue to be thesource of ideas which cannot gain a forum in themovies...
...Wasserstein believes that the play speaks to people of all ages because the issues Heidi confronts are still relevant. As one member of the audience said, "All women trying to make sense of their lives" sound like the characters in The Heidi Chronicles...
...Wasserstein said she wasn't trying to be controversial or to define a generation; she said she didn't write the play so that people would say, "well, honey, we can get two tickets to Cats or we can see a play about a feminist arthistorian who becomes...