The Heidi Chronicles
- Written by Wendy Wasserstein
- Directed by Daniel Sullivan
WENDY WASSERSTEIN received the 1989 Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the New York Drama Critics Circle, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards for the Heidi Chronicles, directed by Daniel Sullivan, produced by Playwrights Horizons. Originally produced by Lincoln Center Theatre in 1992, The Sisters Rosensweig was nominated for 5 Tony Awards including Best Play. Wasserstein's Off-Broadway plays include Uncommon Women and Others , Isn't it Romantic (produced by playwrights Horizons and directed by Gerry Guiterrez), and a musical Miami. Other notable productions are American Daughter, Old Money, Psyche in Love, and her most recent play Third which opened in 2005. Her screenplays include House of Husbands (with Christopher Durang), and The Object of My Affection (based on a novel by Stephen McCauley). She is the author of Bachelor Girls, a collection of essays. Ms. Wasserstein was hospitalized with Lymphoma in December of 2005, ultimately leading to her death in January of 2006. (As of November 2008)
On Broadway this season: Time Stands Still by Donald Margulies (Cort Theatre), The Merchant of Venice with Al Pacino (Broadhurst Theatre), and David Lindsay-Abaire's Good People (MTC's Friedman). Also for MTC, Mr. Sullivan directed Time Stands Still, Accent on Youth, Rabbit Hole, Brooklyn Boy, Sight Unseen, After the Night and the Music, Proof, In Real Life and Psychopathia Sexualis. Among his Broadway credits are The Homecoming; Prelude to a Kiss; Julius Caesar; Morning's at Seven; I'm Not Rappaport; A Moon for the Misbegotten; The Heidi Chronicles; Conversations With My Father; Ah, Wilderness!; and The Sisters Rosensweig. Among his Off-Broadway credits are The Merchant of Venice, The Night Watcher, Twelfth Night, A Midsumemr Night's Dream, Intimate Apparel, Stuff Happens, Far East, Spinning Into Butter, Dinner With Friends, and The Substance of Fire. From 1981 to 1997, Mr. Sullivan served as Artistic Director of Seattle Repertory Theatre, where he directed more than 60 productions and established a New Play Program. Mr. Sullivan's film and television credits include The Substance of Fire and Far East. Mr Sullivan is the Swanlund Professor of Theatre at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Bio as of August, 2010.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Tony Award, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award, the Drama Desk Award, the Hull-Warriner Award and the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.
Funny, touching, and written with rare grace and sensitivity, the play is a moving examination of the progress of a generation, from the socially and politically activist sixties to the success-oriented eighties—a time during which the status of American women underwent profound, and sometimes unsettling, change.
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Featuring
Joan Allen
Joanne Camp
Boyd Gaines
Anne Lange
Drew McVety
Ellen Parker
Sarah Jessica Parker
Peter Friedman
Playwrights Horizons: After the Revolution, The Great God Pan (Amy Herzog); Circle Mirror Transformation (Annie Baker); The Shaggs (Gregory, Lang, Madsen); Fly By Night (Connolly, Mitnick, Rosenstock); The Heidi Chronicles (Wendy Wasserstein). Broadway: Ragtime (Ahrens, Flaherty, McNally), The Heidi Chronicles, Twelve Angry Men, The Tenth Man. Other Off-Broadway: Sundown, Yellow Moon (Bonds); Her Requiem (Pierce); The Nether (Haley); End Days (Laufer); Jacuzzi (The Debate Society); The Open House (Eno); The Hatmaker’s Wife (Yee); Body Awareness (Baker, and her adaptation of) Uncle Vanya; Hamlet (The Public, 2017). Film: The Savages, Safe, Single White Female. TV: “High Maintenance,” “The Muppet Show,” “The Affair,” “The Path.”
(as of 8/24/17)
Creative Team
Thomas Lynch
Scenic DesignerJennifer von Mayrhauser
Costume DesignerPat Collins
Lighting DesignerScott Lehrer
Sound DesignerRoy Harris
Production Stage Manager
Photos of (1) Joan Allen and Peter Friedman; (2) Boyd Gaines, Joan Allen, Peter Friedman, and Joanne Camp; and (3) Cynthia Nixon (B'way cast), Anne Lange, Joanne Camp, Joan Allen, and Ellen Parker by Peter Cunningham.
Not many plays manage Heidi's feat of inducing almost continuous laughter while forcing the audience to examine its preconceptions…It's the play of the season.
Witty, hilarious…not just a funny play, but a wise one…I doubt we'll see a better play this season.