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
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 SaraR
In the sixth volume in the seven-part series, a satire that pokes fun at the self-help industry and the legion of Americans who are political and cultural sloths guides readers step by step toward a l
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
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 s
This delightful Broadway hit chronicles three Jewish sisters from Brooklyn as they gather in London to celebrate a birthday. Wasserstein's three sisters include a brilliant banker and single mother wh
This Pulitzer Prize winning play is the tale of a baby-boomer's long, hard road from 60's confusion to 1990's self-assured woman...or so she hopes.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring
A compilation of essays offering a study of life in the 1990s, discussing such topics as female role models, the world's worst boyfriends, Westchester bar mitzvahs, the dietary secrets of lemon mousse
Elements of Style, the Pulitzer Prize—winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein’s first novel, is a scathing comedy about New York's high society facing the post—9/11 world. Francesca Weissman, an Upper Ea
1. Wasserstein says in the preface that most of these essays were written in response to a To Do list she’d composed when she turned forty: “lose weight, exercise, read more, improve female friendship
