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...Romantic, by Wendy Wasserstein, is an amusing look at the struggles two women in their late 20s face as they try to balance the demands of their careers, their parents, their boyfriends and their own independence...
...triumph for Sullivan, 52, who is one of the most successful directors not only in regional theater but on the commercial stage as well. In New York City he is currently represented by Herb Gardner's Conversations with My Father on Broadway and Wendy Wasserstein's The Sisters Rosensweig, which will transfer from off-Broadway to Broadway in March. His director's royalties for those shows are shared with Seattle Rep, where all those shows originated (as did Gardner's I'm Not Rappaport and Wasserstein's The Heidi Chronicles, also staged...
...trenchantly topical plays by three of the nation's leading dramatists. But if the theater seemed reborn with relevance last week -- thanks to Larry Kramer's poignant gay Bildungsroman, The Destiny of Me, David Mamet's lapel-grabbing vision of political correctness cum intellectual terrorism in Oleanna and Wendy Wasserstein's drawing-room comedy with claws, The Sisters Rosensweig -- Broadway was not part of the buzz. For reasons ranging from finances to the tyranny of reviews, the producers of all three chose to open off-Broadway. Artistically, the week couldn't have been much richer. Economically, the theater still seems...
...other end of the scale of suffering is Wasserstein's wry comedy about three sisters (yes, they make frequent references to Chekhov) whose problem is not failing to get to Moscow but failing to stay, spiritually, in their ancestral Jewish Brooklyn. All three are compulsive achievers. The eldest, broodingly played by Jane Alexander, is a global banker based in London, where the others have come to visit. The youngest (Frances McDormand) is a tomboyish travel writer who lives more for the escape of travel than for the art of writing. The middle sister (Madeline Kahn) is a self-credentialed / psychotherapist...
...other characters include the banker's daughter, a student whose delving into family history prompts her elders to do the same, and four men who appear vital to these women's lives but who are one by one sloughed off. Wasserstein is interested in serious issues; the sisters are assimilated Jews who only slowly reawaken to the importance of their culture and religion, while on the periphery the men debate a host of topics from current headlines. But in form and uproarious dialogue the play is a commercial comedy. On that level, Sisters is a delight and is exquisitely performed...