A Wendy Weekend is honoring what would have been Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winner Wendy Wasserstein’s 70th birthday on October 18. The celebration features 3 plays, one each night of the weekend. Each play will become available to view at the listed time and will remain available for viewing until the next play becomes available. Sunday’s event will also include a post-show talkback and will be available for viewing until Monday October 19 at 7pm ET. Proceeds from the weekend will support TDF’s Wendy Wasserstein Project.
Uncommon Women and Others
Friday October 16 at 8PM ET
A group of friends, all alumnae of Mount Holyoke College, meet for lunch in 1978 and reminisce about their time on campus. One of Wasserstein’s early plays, she wrote Uncommon Women as her thesis project while at Yale. The show was on Broadway and later made into a PBS movie with Meryl Streep.
Isn’t it Romantic
Saturday October 17 at 8PM ET
Two college grads struggle to escape lingering parental domination and to establish their own lives and identities in Manhattan in the early ’80s.
The Heidi Chronicles
Sunday October 18 at 7PM ET
The Heidi Chronicles, follows Heidi Holland from high school in the 1960s to her career as an art historian more than 20 years later. The Heidi Chronicles exposed the internal battle many women feel as they balance desires for careers, friendships, and families; as they grapple with what it means and can mean to be a feminist.
