I can’t believe that author and playwright Wendy Wasserstein has died! Only 55, PW says Wasserstein had a months-long battle with lymphoma and breast cancer. The mother of a daughter, long-time New Yorker Wasserstein was one of the smart, funny woman who informed the intellectual life of NYC–it seems tragic she would die so young.
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I agree…when I read the news I was in shock. What an amazing talent and from what I read an incredible person. What a loss. I loved the Heidi Chronicles and if one of her plays was on Broadway I’d make a special effort to see it when I was visiting New York.
Primorskii Bulvar
Late one Sunday afternoon in March
Long after the first flicker of fame
Had already come to set upon you
When you were still
Not yet quite the mother
We spoke for an hour
Into space and back
Across the telephone
About everything
Except the theatre
With word being built upon word
As though we were building
Some Odessian palace
The French forgot in their haste
To set in its most proper place
By The Steps on Primorskii Bulvar
I had once seen in some magazine
A landscape photograph of you
Sitting on your long living room couch
With some out of tune guy
Who seemed so disinterested
He really did not look at home
But even that now takes some acting
In this new century of ours
How long ago all of that now seems
But then our yesterdays are just that
Wendy Wasserstein 1950-2006
Copyright c 2006 Lewis B. Sckolnick
I was shocked to hear she died. I and some classmates in my drama class just did our rendition of “uncommon women & others.”i portrayed “carter.” i think if mrs.wasserstein was there,she would be proud. R. I. P wendy wasserstein. You will be sorely missed.