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Lawyers for Gay Men's Health Crisis, the Department of Education and the NAACP were among the ten attorneys selected by Harvard Law School this week to be Wasserstein Public Interest fellows...
...there was another all-star team playing in Cooperstown that weekend: eight miles up the road, Glimmerglass Opera was presenting the world premiere of Central Park, a trio of one-act operas with librettos by three top playwrights: A.R. Gurney (Love Letters), Terrence McNally (Master Class) and Wendy Wasserstein (The Heidi Chronicles). It was quite a lineup for a one-stoplight town--but nothing out of the ordinary for a summer opera festival that is increasingly regarded as the best of its kind...
...savvy young American singers, foremost among them soprano Lauren Flanigan, whose Olivier-like immersion in her roles has won her a well-deserved reputation as the thinking person's diva. Flanigan sings two sharply contrasting parts in Central Park--a frustrated divorce in The Festival of Regrets (book by Wasserstein, music by Deborah Drattell) and a desperate bag lady in The Food of Love (book by McNally, music by Robert Beaser)--and brings them both off with staggering assurance...
...eminences from movies, TV and even the stage convened at the Broadhurst Theatre for a little old-fashioned dazzle. The occasion was a benefit called "The Playwright's the Thing," an evening of skits and play excerpts by three superb American comic dramatists: Christopher Durang, Terrence McNally and Wendy Wasserstein. The event, of which TIME was the presenting sponsor, raised money for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, a charity that helps theater people with AIDS. The evening also raised the spirits of everyone lucky enough to be there...
...Pamela S. Wasserstein...