In 1989 Wendy Wasserstein became the first woman playwright to win a Tony; that same year she also collected the Pulitzer Prize and the award for best new play from New York Drama Critics Circle. Thes...
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In the following unfavorable review, Carter characterizes The Heidi Chronicles, as "Off-Broadway lite" and reminiscent of television sitcoms.
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An American novelist and drama critic, Weales is the author of such books as American Drama since World War II (1962) and The Jumping-Off Place: American Drama in the 1960s (1969). In the following ex...
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An educator, critic, and nonfiction writer, Hornby teaches and writes about drama. In the following, he offers a negative assessment of The Heidi Chronicles.
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Rose was the founder of the Roses International Women's Theater and Softball Syndicate. In the excerpt below, written in the form of a letter dated 1 October 1989 to the protagonist of The Heid...
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In the following review, Austin discusses characterization in The Heidi Chronicles and feminist reaction to the play. She notes that although the play has been lauded by some feminists for its focus o...
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In the following review, Luddy favorably assesses The Heidi Chronicles, and Other Plays.
Wasserstein has made the cultural territory of the American experience since the 1960s her own. She is its m...
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In the following review of The Heidi Chronicles, and Other Plays, Olson compares Wasserstein's plays to the work of Mary McCarthy and Philip Barry.
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In the essay below, Wasserstein discusses her reaction to winning the Pulitzer Prize for The Heidi Chronicles.
I dreamed I accepted the Tony Award wearing a CAMP EUGENE O'NEILL sweatshirt. I...
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In the following excerpt, Keyssar expresses her disappointment with the tremendous success of The Heidi Chronicles. She contends that, according to Mikhail Bakhtin's definition of meaningful th...
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In the following review, Barnett appraises the cultural significance of An American Daughter, contrasting its feminist perspective with that of The Heidi Chronicles.
Wendy Wasserstein's earl...
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In the following review, Weales highlights the weaknesses of The Heidi Chronicles, examining the effects of its protagonist's flat characterization on the whole play.
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In the following review, Davy assesses the critical and commercial success of The Heidi Chronicles within the context of contemporary feminist concerns.
The Heidi Chronicles is a rare play for Broa...
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In the following essay, Keyssar contrasts the semiotic differences between The Heidi Chronicles and Maria Irene Fornes's Fefu and Her Friends, refuting the contention by philosopher-critic Mikh...
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In the following interview, originally conducted on October 9, 1991, Wasserstein discusses her early career and the implications of her success, aspects of her writing process, the influence and role ...
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Teaching The Heidi Chronicles
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The Heidi Chronicles Lesson Plans contain 117 pages of teaching material, including:
American playwright (b. Oct. 18, 1950, Brooklyn,
N.Y.
—d. Jan. 30, 2006,
New York, N.Y.
), probed, with humour and sensibility, the predicament facing educated women who came of age in the ...
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Tony
Shalhoub
's ability to absorb himself totally in character roles was key to the success of his portrayal of the obsessive-compulsive, mysophobic detective Adrian Monk in the
USA
network se...
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For nearly 30 years, theater audiences knew Wendy Wasserstein as the wry mistress of wit who could make them guffaw in their seats or wheeze until they wept. But to her friends, the essence of this...
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Bloomberg’s State of the City
Mayor Bloomberg’s State of the City address won praise from leading Democrats as well as Republicans, and with good reason. It outlined an ambitious agen...
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For nearly 30 years, theater audiences knew Wendy Wasserstein as the wry mistress of wit who could make them guffaw in their seats or wheeze until they wept. But to her friends, the essence of this...
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It’s been one year since the playwright Wendy Wasserstein died at the age of 55, and her old apartment, on the 11th floor of 75 Central Park West, has now been sold for $5.22 million.
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With "The Feminine Mystique," Betty Friedan gave rise to the modern women's movement, striking a chord that continues to ring four decades later.Friedan and Coretta Scott King gained fame as crusad...
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Gerald Ford ended "our long national nightmare." Betty Friedan gave rise to the modern women's movement, striking a chord that continues to ring four decades later.In the waning days of 2006, forme...
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Wendy Wasserstein
Critical Review by Graydon Carter
Wasserstein, Wendy
