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Additional authors

1. Wasserstein, Wendy
2. Winer, Linda
3. Robins, Isobel
4. Slaughter, Harriet
5. Mayleas, Ruth
6. Corwin, Betty L
7. Isaacson, Robert
8. Malone, Audra D
9. CUNY-TV (Television station : New York, N.Y.), producer
10. League of Professional Theatre Women, producer
11. City University of New York
12. League of Professional Theatre Women, donor
13. CUNY-TV (Television station : New York, N.Y.), donor

Description

1. 1 videocassette (VHS) (29 min.) : sd., col. SP; 1/2 in.

Summary

1. Playwright Wendy Wasserstein discusses her career with Newsday critic Linda Winer. Wasserstein, a pioneer in writing for and about post-1960s American women, was the first female playwright to win a Tony Award, for The Heidi Chronicles in 1989. Wasserstein discusses her objective in writing her early play Uncommon women and others; the lack of contemporary models for the strong women characters she portrays, and the inspiration she found in the female characters from 1930s motion pictures; her 1992 play The sisters Rosensweig, which she feels makes a political statement in showing that a loving relationship is possible for a middle aged woman; conveying political ideas via comedy; her studies at Yale Drama School; her 1988 work The Heidi chronicles, whose ending was criticized as regressive from a feminist perspective; being a mother and a playwright; the need for new plays and greater variety in the regional theater; and her wish that there wasn't "a separate slot" for women in the theater.

Series statement

1. Women in theatre

Alternative title

1. Dialogues with notable women in American theatre

Subject

1. Talk shows
2. Dramatists > Interviews
3. Women dramatists > Interviews
4. Television
5. Wasserstein, Wendy > Interviews
6. Interviews
7. Theater > New York (State) > New York
8. Theater > Production and direction
9. Women in the theater

Genre/Form

1. Television.
2. Talk shows.
3. Interviews.

Call number

1. NCOX 2049

Note

1. Credits at end of tape.
2. Program is also available at www.cuny.tv.
3. "Discussion program spotlighting prominent women from the theatre, including performers, playwrights, producers and designers."

Performer (note)

1. Interviewer: Linda Winer.

Event (note)

1. Videotaped in the CUNY-TV studios, New York, N.Y. on Dec. 8, 2003. First aired on CUNY-TV, Channel 75, April 23, 2004.

Linking entry (note)

1. Forms part of the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Billy Rose Theatre Division.

Title

1. Women in theatre. Wendy Wasserstein [videorecording] / produced by the League of Professional Theatre Women, Isobel Robins, Harriet Slaughter, co-presidents ; Ruth Mayleas, executive producer ; Betty L. Corwin, director of special projects, Theatre on Film and Tape Archive ; Bob Isaacson, executive in charge of production ; Audra D. Malone, director ; [produced for] CUNY-TV.

Imprint

1. New York : CUNY-TV, c2004.

Series

1. Women in theatre

Performer

1. Interviewer: Linda Winer.

Event

1. Videotaped in the CUNY-TV studios, New York, N.Y. on Dec. 8, 2003. First aired on CUNY-TV, Channel 75, April 23, 2004.

Local note

1. Gift of The League of Professional Theatre Women and CUNY-TV.

Linking entry

1. Forms part of the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Billy Rose Theatre Division.

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Theatre on Film and Tape Archive Special Collections material

Added author

1. Wasserstein, Wendy, interviewee.
2. Winer, Linda, interviewer.
3. Robins, Isobel, producer.
4. Slaughter, Harriet, producer.
5. Mayleas, Ruth, producer.
6. Corwin, Betty L, producer.
7. Isaacson, Robert, producer.
8. Malone, Audra D, director.
9. CUNY-TV (Television station : New York, N.Y.), producer.
10. League of Professional Theatre Women, producer.
11. City University of New York.
12. League of Professional Theatre Women, donor.
13. CUNY-TV (Television station : New York, N.Y.), donor.

Research call number

1. NCOX 2049