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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...
...largest grant program administered through OPIA is the Wasserstein and Andres summer grant program, which was established...
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...