The Sisters Rosensweig

Author : Wendy Wasserstein
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156000130
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sisters Rosensweig written by Wendy Wasserstein and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1994 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three Jewish middle-aged sisters, originally from Brooklyn, come together in Queen Anne's Gate, London, to celebrate the fifty-fourth birthday of Sara, the eldest, now a brilliant British banker. Divorced, a single mother, Sara no longer sees the necessity for romance. Gorgeous, suburban housewife and mother, is also a talk-show personality. And Pfeni, journalist and travel writer, still hasn't written her serious book on the women of Tajikistan. Pfeni's boyfriend, Geoffrey, director of the hit musical The Scarlet Pimpernel, brings to Sara's house Mervyn, a faux furrier, "the world leader in synthetic animal protective covering". Sara meets Merv and finds that even at fifty-four there are possibilities. An exuberant, heart-warming, contemporary comedy by one of America's best playwrights.

Author : Wendy Wasserstein
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822216339
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An American Daughter written by Wendy Wasserstein and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1999 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Set in Washington, D.C., AN AMERICAN DAUGHTER focuses on Dr. Lyssa Dent Hughes, a health care expert and forty-something daughter of a long-time Senator. When the President nominates Lyssa to a Cabinet post, an indiscretion from her past

Author : Julie Salamon
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 110151776X
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wendy and the Lost Boys written by Julie Salamon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-08-18 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authorized biography of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein. In Wendy and the Lost Boys bestselling author Julie Salamon explores the life of playwright Wendy Wasserstein's most expertly crafted character: herself. The first woman playwright to win a Tony Award, Wendy Wasserstein was a Broadway titan. But with her high- pitched giggle and unkempt curls, she projected an image of warmth and familiarity. Everyone knew Wendy Wasserstein. Or thought they did. Born on October 18, 1950, in Brooklyn, New York, to Polish Jewish immigrant parents, Wendy was the youngest of Lola and Morris Wasserstein's five children. Lola had big dreams for her children. They didn't disappoint: Sandra, Wendy's glamorous sister, became a high- ranking corporate executive at a time when Fortune 500 companies were an impenetrable boys club. Their brother Bruce became a billionaire superstar of the investment banking world. Yet behind the family's remarkable success was a fiercely guarded world of private tragedies. Wendy perfected the family art of secrecy while cultivating a densely populated inner circle. Her friends included theater elite such as playwright Christopher Durang, Lincoln Center Artistic Director André Bishop, former New York Times theater critic Frank Rich, and countless others. And still almost no one knew that Wendy was pregnant when, at age forty-eight, she was rushed to Mount Sinai Hospital to deliver Lucy Jane three months premature. The paternity of her daughter remains a mystery. At the time of Wendy's tragically early death less than six years later, very few were aware that she was gravely ill. The cherished confidante to so many, Wendy privately endured her greatest heartbreaks alone. In Wendy and the Lost Boys, Salamon assembles the fractured pieces, revealing Wendy in full. Though she lived an uncommon life, she spoke to a generation of women during an era of vast change. Revisiting Wendy's works-The Heidi Chronicles and others-we see Wendy in the free space of the theater, where her many selves all found voice. Here Wendy spoke in the most intimate of terms about everything that matters most: family and love, dreams and devastation. And that is the Wendy of Neverland, the Wendy who will never grow old.

Author : Wendy Wasserstein
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822205777
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Isn't it Romantic written by Wendy Wasserstein and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1985 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Wendy Wasserstein
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780822217053
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seven One-act Plays written by Wendy Wasserstein and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2000 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORIES: In BETTE AND ME, the author and the legendary Bette Midler get their hair done, try on makeup, and row a boat on the Hudson River. They finally end up at Radio City Music Hall, where Wendy rises from the orchestra pit on a half-shell w

Author : Wendy Wasserstein
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375413502
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shiksa Goddess written by Wendy Wasserstein and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2001-07-31 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Wendy Wasserstein
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573627934
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old Money written by Wendy Wasserstein and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 1410358089
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Study Guide for Wendy Wasserstein's "The Sisters Rosensweig" written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2016 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Wendy Wasserstein's "The Sisters Rosensweig," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.

Author : Wendy Wasserstein
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9780613292542
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Heidi Chronicles and Other Plays written by Wendy Wasserstein and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Wendy Wasserstein
Publisher : Hyperion Books for Children
ISBN 13 : 9780786800780
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pamela's First Musical written by Wendy Wasserstein and published by Hyperion Books for Children. This book was released on 1996-05-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pamela has the best birthday ever when her glamorous Aunt Louise takes her to see a Broadway musical.