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.

Old money: A play

WENDY WASSERSTEIN

S. French

Drama for Reading and Performance: Collection 1

Drama for Reading and Performance: Collection 1

Horton Foote

Celeste Raspanti

David Ives

Aurand Harris

Merrill Markoe

bertolt-brecht

Gary, Soto

Teen & Young Adult

Perfection Learning

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.

The Heidi Chronicles. (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)

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THE STORY: The play deals with the post-college careers (and dilemmas) of two former classmates, a short, slightly plump would-be writer named Janie Blumberg, and her tall, thin gorgeous WASP friend, Harriet Cornwall. Both are struggling to escape

Isn't It Romantic (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)

Wasserstein, Wendy

Dramas & Plays

Five Mount Holyoke graduates hold an informal reunion where they share their memories, dreams, and experiences of the last six years

Uncommon Women and Others. (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)

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Performing Arts

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 Saraâ€™s birthday. Winner of the Outer Critics Circle Award. Photographs.

The Sisters Rosensweig - Acting Edition (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)

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Lyssa Dent Hughes is the privileged, well-educated daughter of a Republican senator. She is the wife of a professor and the owner of a lovely house in Georgetown. She is also the president's nominee for Surgeon General. When the media discovers that once, long ago, she failed to respond for jury duty, this relatively minor misstep is portrayed as a serious moral lapse. A good friend uses the incident to make a point, scarcely thinking of the implications, and Lyssa must suffer the consequences. From that moment on, Lyssa Dent Hughes sits helplessly as the press investigates her family and friends, shattering her privacy, her career, and her world. Wendy Wasserstein's trenchant humor and sizzling dialogue combine with biting political commentary to produce a masterful, and topical, drama.

An American Daughter - Acting Edition (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)

This collection includes seven short plays based on Anton Chekhov's short stories: THE MAN IN A CASE by Wendy Wasserstein, VINT by David Mamet, DROWNING by María Irene Fornés, A DOPEY FAIRY TALE by Michael Weller, EVE OF THE TRIAL by Samm-Art Williams, THE TALKING DOG by John Guare, and RIVKALA'S RING by Spalding Gray. The plays were commissioned by the Acting Company, and the volume is of particular interest to those concerned with both the short story and short play forms. Some of the plays are faithful adaptations of the original stories. Others take the original short stories as jumping off points and so are better characterized as "loosely based on." In all, these are fascinating short works. THE MAN IN A CASE by Wendy Wasserstein: Varinka is a free spirit in love with the older Byelinkov, the most proper man in town. But his inhibitions and worries about how he and Varinka are perceived when she boldly rides a bicycle about town threatens to unravel their impending marriage. VINT by David Mamet: Mischievous bureaucrats play a card game (vint) using identity documents in their possession until they are caught redhanded. DROWNING by María Irene Fornés: A surrealist playlet in which a man performs suicides for a fee. A DOPEY FAIRY TALE by Michael Weller: A spoof fairy tale about a boy and his talking dog, Chatter, who go on a magical journey to recover his lost talent. EVE OF THE TRIAL by Samm-Art Williams: Set in Baton Rouge in 1919, the defendant of a criminal trial meets the judge who, unbeknownst to him, is to try him the following day. THE TALKING DOG by John Guare: While hang gliding in the Catskills, a young woman wonders whether the young man in her company loves her. RIVKALA'S RING by Spalding Gray: Famously astute observer of everyday life, Spalding Gray receives a Chekhov short story in the mail, leading him into a monologue that confronts the fears that beset us. "Take seven contemporary American playwrights with highly distinctive voices and wildly differing approaches to the theater. Ask each to adapt one of Anton Chekhov's short stories, which range in mood from the melancholic to the satiric and back again ... the results are incomparably delicious ... when ORCHARDS is good which is most of the time it is very, very good, indeed ..." Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun-Times "The notion of asking seven contemporary playwrights to produce variations on themes by Anton Chekhov seems at first like asking for combination-platter theater ... All of the playwrights use Chekhov short stories for a springboard but some have jumped so far into the deep end that it would be more accurate to say that they maybe looked at his picture while they were writing ... Whether you pick from Column A or Column B, ORCHARDS offers a superior menu." Megan Rosenfeld, The Washington Post

Orchards

John Guare

Spalding Gray

David?Mamet

Michael Weller

Maria Irene Fornes

Samm-Art Williams

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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and author of the essay collection. Shiksa Goddess, comes a dazzling debut novel, a comedy about New York's urban gentry living in a post 9/11 world - te arbiters of fashion and the doyennes of charity balls; about the rick and the nouveau rich9er), the glamorous and the desperate to be. We meed Francesca Weissman, the Upper East Side pediatrician rated number one by Manhattan magazine, who takes us into the upper strata of privilege and aspiration (she's originally from Queens with a father in hosiery, life on the fringes of glittering New York is fine with her) ... Samantha Acton, thoroughbred descendant of the Yan Rensselaers and the Carnegies, who defines the social order in the great tradition of Mrs. Astor and Babe Paley, Barry Santorini, Republican, moveimaker, winner of twelbe Oscars, and his wife, the Italian supermarket heiress and former media rep for Giorgio Armani and many more. As Elements of Style opens out, we see a madeup mosaic of the social lives and mores of twenty first century Manhattan of romance, work, family, and friendship. Satiric, fierce, touching and delicously Wasserstein.

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