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Wasserstein, Wendy was born on October 18, 1950 in Brooklyn. Daughter of Morris and Lola Wasserstein.
(Wendy Wasserstein's Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning...)
Wendy Wasserstein's Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning play, The Heidi Chronicles, is the tale of a baby-boomer's long, hard road from '60s confusion to '90s self made woman...or so she hopes. Directed by Molly Smith. A L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: Lisa Akey, Kosha Engler, Kaitlin Hopkins, Lisa Pelikan, Martha Plimpton, Scot Reese, Raphael Sbarge and Grant Shaud.
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(The graduating seniors of a Seven Sisters college, trying...)
The graduating seniors of a Seven Sisters college, trying to decide whether to pattern themselves after Katharine Hepburn or Emily Dickinson. Two young women besieged by the demands of mothers, lovers, and careers—not to mention a highly persistent telephone answering machine—as they struggle to have it all. A brilliant feminist art historian trying to keep her bearings and her sense of humor on the elevator ride from the radical sixties to the heartless eighties. Wendy Wasserstein's characters are so funny, so many-sided, and so real that we seem to know them from their Scene One entrances, though the places they go are invariably surprising. And these three plays—Uncommon Women and Others, Isn't It Romantic, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Heidi Chronicles—manage to engage us heart, mind, and soul on such a deep and lasting level that they are already recognized as classics of the modern theater.
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(Here is a rollicking parody of the self-help genre, one t...)
Here is a rollicking parody of the self-help genre, one that skewers the couch-bound, apathetic mentality so pervasive in America today. With tongue in cheek, Sloth guides readers step-by-step toward a life of noncommittal inertia. "You have the right to be lazy," writes Wasserstein. "You can choose not to respond. You can choose not to move." Readers will find out the importance of Lethargiosis--the process of eliminating energy and drive, the vital first step in becoming a sloth. To help you attain the perfect state of indolent bliss, the book offers a wealth of self-help aids. Readers will find the sloth songbook, sloth breakfast bars (packed with sugar, additives, and a delicious touch of Ambien), sloth documentaries (such as the author's 12-hour epic on Thomas Aquinas), and the sloth network, channel 823, programming guaranteed not to stimulate or challenge in any way. ("It may be difficult to distinguish between this and other channels, but only on channel 823 can you watch me sleeping.") Readers will also learn the top ten lies about Sloth, the ten commandments of Sloth, the SLOTH mantra, even the "too-much ten"--over-achievers such as Marie Curie, Shakespeare, and William the Conqueror. You will discover how to become a sloth in your diet, exercise, work, and even love-life (true love leads to passion, she warns, and passion is the biggest enemy of sloth). Wendy Wasserstein is one of America's great comic writers--one who always has a serious point to her humor. Here, as she pokes fun at the self-help industry, she also satirizes the legion of Americans who are cultural and political sloths.
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Available as a set through this special offer, here are seven engaging meditations on sin, written by some of our most eminent authors. Includes Greed, Gluttony, Envy, Lust, Sloth, Anger, and Pride.
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(Pulitzer Prize winner Wendy Wasserstein spins a comic and...)
Pulitzer Prize winner Wendy Wasserstein spins a comic and moving tale about the pitfalls that await political appointees. As a respected health crusader and devoted wife and mother. Dr. Lyssa Hughes seems perfect for the role of U.S. Surgeon General, until a chance remark at a fashionable brunch sets off a media feeding frenzy. A L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: David Birney, Anna Gunn, Jamie Hanes, Gregory Itzin, Michael Malone, Kevin McCarthy, Mary McDonnell, Claudette Nevins and Denise Nicholas.
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Wasserstein, who won a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award for The Heidi Chronicles, writes of three Jewish middle-aged sisters-Sara, Gorgeous, and Pfeni-who come together in London to celebrate Sara’s birthday. Winner of the Outer Critics Circle Award. Photographs.
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(Celebrated playwright and magnetic wit Wendy Wasserstein ...)
Celebrated playwright and magnetic wit Wendy Wasserstein has been firmly rooted in New York’s cultural life since her childhood of Broadway matinees, but her appeal is universal. Shiksa Goddess collects thirty-five of her urbane, inspiring, and deeply empathic essays–all written when she was in her forties, and all infused with her trademark irreverent humor. The full range of Wasserstein’s mid-life obsessions are covered in this eclectic collection: everything from Chekhov, politics, and celebrity, to family, fashion, and real estate. Whether fretting over her figure, discovering her gentile roots, proclaiming her love for ordered-in breakfasts, lobbying for affordable theater, or writing tenderly about her very Jewish mother and her own daughter, born when she was forty-eight and single, Wasserstein reveals the full, dizzying life of a shiksa goddess with unabashed candor and inimitable style.
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( A dinner party in an ornate mansion on the fashionable ...)
A dinner party in an ornate mansion on the fashionable Upper East Side of Manhattan provides the scene for this witty and incisive play. Set in two eras--the early 1900s and our own Gilded Age--the characters move effortlessly from one period to the other. The host, a contemporary master of high-risk arbitrage, steps in and out of character as a robber baron of an earlier time. His guests of today include a Hollywood director, a not-so-cutting-edge sculptor, an online lingerie designer, an aggressive publicist, and an aging historian. Their counterparts from the past are the great man's rebellious son, a grand dame of New York society, the architect who built the mansion originally, and the maids and servants who maintain it. In this dance of rich storytelling and social commentary, it becomes strikingly clear that while old money has become new, little else has changed over the years. Children still rebel against their controlling parents, women still hope for love, and greed, snobbery, and angst persist.
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(Book annotation not available for this title. Title: Unco...)
Book annotation not available for this title. Title: Uncommon Women and Others Author: Wasserstein, Wendy Publisher: Dramatist's Play Service Publication Date: 1999/06/01 Number of Pages: Binding Type: PAPERBACK Library of Congress: 79101871
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Wasserstein, Wendy was born on October 18, 1950 in Brooklyn. Daughter of Morris and Lola Wasserstein.
Bachelor, Mount Holyoke College, 1971; Master of Arts, City College of New York, 1973; Master of Fine Arts, Yale Drama School, 1976.
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( Wasserstein, who won a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award ...)
(Celebrated playwright and magnetic wit Wendy Wasserstein ...)
(Wendy Wasserstein's Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning...)
(The graduating seniors of a Seven Sisters college, trying...)
(Here is a rollicking parody of the self-help genre, one t...)
( A dinner party in an ornate mansion on the fashionable ...)
(Available as a set through this special offer, here are s...)
(Pulitzer Prize winner Wendy Wasserstein spins a comic and...)
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Member of board Channel Thirteen, McDowell Colony, W National Educational Television, British American Arts Associate, Dramatists Guild for Young Playwrights, artistic board Playwrights Horizons, Council Dramatists Guild.
1 child Lucy Jane.