It’s been one year since the playwright Wendy Wasserstein died at the age of 55, and her old apartment, on the 11th floor of 75 Central Park West, has now been sold for $5.22 million.
“It was a pretty place to be,” said playwright Chris Durang, a friend since 1972. He called the apartment comfortable Read More
Bloomberg’s State of the City
Mayor Bloomberg’s State of the City address won praise from leading Democrats as well as Republicans, and with good reason. It outlined an ambitious agenda grounded in everyday reality, not in divisive ideology. Rather than rest on his achievements, the Mayor is pressing forward to new challenges.
As Read More
For nearly 30 years, theater audiences knew Wendy Wasserstein as the wry mistress of wit who could make them guffaw in their seats or wheeze until they wept. But to her friends, the essence of this Broadway scribe was always her own high-pitched giggle.
“It happened quite often, it was really a part of hezr Read More
Lightning struck the New York magazine sweepstakes Dec. 16 in the form of Bruce Wasserstein, the taciturn, driving deal magnate who dropped $55 million in cash on Henry Kravis’ Primedia and won the right to take charge of a glossy part of journalism history.
It was the stealth assault of 2003, stealing the march Read More
Lightning struck the New York magazine sweepstakes Dec. 16 in the form of Bruce Wasserstein, the taciturn, driving deal magnate who dropped $55 million in cash on Henry Kravis’ Primedia and won the right to take charge of a glossy part of journalism history.
It was the stealth assault of 2003, stealing the march Read More
I wonder: When was the last time you were shocked at the theater? I don’t mean by bad theater. (Bad theater is nothing new.) I mean honestly and truly shocked by a play whose ideas are so challenging and unsafe you’re shaken to the core.
Take Edward Albee’s The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? , Read More
I know the plays of Tom Stoppard, and Wendy Wasserstein, if
I may say so, is no Tom Stoppard. The comparison wouldn’t normally spring to
mind-and it would be an unfair one-were it not for the fact that Ms.
Wasserstein’s Old Money , her new play
about old and new money at Lincoln Center’s Mitzi Read More
Here’s a simple multiple-choice question on the subject of gender politics. Are you (a) gay, (b) straight, (c) both, (d) does not apply, or (e) undecided but still working on it? Choose any option and you’ll find there’s something for you in The Object of My Affection , one of the happiest, most intelligent and Read More
