Durang, Bishop and Rich Pay Tribute to Wasserstein on 'Charlie Rose,' Feb. 6

By: Feb. 06, 2006
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A number of friends and colleagues of the late great playwright will honor Wendy Wasserstein on "The Charlie Rose Show" on February 6th. The show will air on WNET-Channel 13 at 11 PM ET (check local listings).

The show's guests will be playwright Christopher Durang, a close and longtime friend of Wasserstein's, Lincoln Center Theatre artistic director Andre Bishop, who produced many of Wasserstein's plays, the Tribeca Film Festival's Jane Rosenthal and New York Times columnist and former theatre critic Frank Rich, who was known for exempting himself from reviewing the playwright's shows because of their friendship.

On January 30th, Wendy Wasserstein lost her battle with cancer; she was 55 years old. The beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright passed away at the Memorial Sloan Kettering due to complications from lymphoma.

Wasserstein won much acclaim over the course of almost three decades for writing plays that with wit, warmth and insight, confronted a range of feminist issues--the conflict of career versus marriage and motherhood, the struggle for women to achieve equality at work, and the joys and tribulations of love and sex, among them. Her plays included Uncommon Women and Others, The Sisters Rosensweig, Isn't It Romantic, An American Daughter and The Heidi Chronicles, which is commonly regarded as her masterpiece and won both a Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Third, a critical and commercial hit at Lincoln Center, was the last new Wasserstein work to be presented. With the late composer Cy Coleman and lyricist David Zippel, Wasserstein also wrote the book for Pamela's First Musical (based on her own children's book). The author of several volumes of essays (including Bachelor Girls, Shiksa Goddess, and Sloth), Wasserstein also penned a debut novel called Elements of Style that will be published in May.



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