The Washington Post, December 17th, 1995
"WHAT'S A nice Jewish girl like me doing in a Christmas piece like this?" says Wendy Wasserstein, turning her well-tuned antenna momentarily on herself. Her wit can be fiendish, but one soon realizes that her sharpest ridicule is for herself. She has a ringing talent -- a distinctly Jewish gift -- for making puckish fun of her life and then sitting back and enjoying the racket of her own laughter. She was born in the Flatbush area of Brooklyn in 1950, the daughter of a perennial dance student and a ribbon manufacturer. Her mother, Lola, is "a total eccentric, a wonderfully colorful character" ...
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