Wendy Wasserstein
Author
Language
English
Description
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and author of the essay collection Shiksa Goddess (“Utterly delicious”—Judith Thurman), a dazzling debut novel, a comedy about New York’s urban gentry living in a post-9/11 world—the arbiters of fashion and the doyennes of charity balls; about the rich and the nouveau rich(er), the glamorous and the desperate to be.
We meet Francesca Weissman, the Upper East Side pediatrician...
We meet Francesca Weissman, the Upper East Side pediatrician...
Author
Language
English
Description
Comedy. An aspiring writer and her former classmate struggle to establish their own lives and identities. Background music. Prologue, 2 acts, 13 scenes, 4 men, 4 women, extras.
"Janie Blumberg and her Gentile best friend, Harriet, have moved to New York to carve out a life for themselves. Janie is a sad-eyed, wisecracking, unemployed writer and artist who is having trouble making her mark, her life particularly complicated by overly supportive parents...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein spins a comic and moving tale about the pitfalls that await political appointees. Dr. Lyssa Hughes is a respected health crusader, devoted wife and mother, and the perfect candidate for U.S. Surgeon General... until a chance remark sets off a media feeding frenzy. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring David Birney, Anna Gunn, Jamie Hanes, Gregory Itzin, Michael Malone, Kevin McCarthy,...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Comprised of a collage of interrelated scenes, the action begins with a reunion, six years after graduation, of five close friends and classmates at Mount Holyoke College. They compare notes on their activities since leaving school and then, in a series of flashbacks, we see them in their college days and learn of the events, some funny, some touching, some bitingly cynical, that helped to shape them. Each of the group is a distinct individual, and...
9) Old money
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xi, 98 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
11) Trial by media
Publisher
Starlight Home Entertainmentc
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An old indiscretion comes back to haunt an aspiring female politician.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Nina is a young woman who falls in love with her new roommate, George, even though he's gay and loves her purely as a friend. When Nina becomes pregnant, she realizes she'd rather raise her child with George than with her boyfriend, a decision that forces the threesome to explore the fine line between love, sex, and friendship.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (357 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This first set of Broadway Theatre Archives Great Performances includes the superb 1966 television adaptation by Arthur Miller of his Pulitzer Prize-winning modern tragedy, Death of a Salesman; Alice at the Palace, a "music hall" version of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland; Uncommon Women and Others, Wendy Wasserstein's play about Mount Holyoke graduates at a reunion assessing whether they have achieved their goals; and For Colored Girls Who Have...
