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Dominican University celebrates the work of playwright Wendy Wasserstein

Dominican University’s Performing Arts Center will present Wendy Wasserstein, The Uncommon Woman on Friday, March 18 and Saturday, March 19 at 7:30 p.m. in the Eloise Martin Recital Hall, 7900 West Division Street, River Forest.

The Uncommon Woman will be a production of play excerpts written by Wendy Wasserstein, one of the most influential contemporary American women playwrights. Wasserstein, who died suddenly in 2006, wrote 11 plays, three books of non-fiction, a novel and the screenplay for the 1998 film The Object of My Affection. Her most celebrated and popular play, The Heidi Chronicles, opened on Broadway in 1989 and ran for over 600 performances. It won a Tony Award, New York Drama Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Her other plays include Uncommon Women and Others, which was produced in 1977 and starred Glenn Close; The Sisters Rosensweig; Isn’t It Romantic; An American Daughter; Old Money; and Third.

Wasserstein explored topics such as feminism, family relationships and ethnicity. Her obituary in The New York Times stated, “Ms. Wasserstein’s plays struck a profound chord with women struggling to reconcile a desire for romance and companionship, drummed into baby boomers by the seductive fantasies of Hollywood movies, with the need for intellectual independence and achievement separate from the personal sphere.”

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Wendy Wasserstein, The Uncommon Woman is part of Dominican University Performing Arts Center’s Black Box Experiment, a program which explores a theme or a playwright through a series of one-act plays or scenes. Designed to showcase the craft of the actor, the student-directed production is performed with fewer technical elements. For more information or to order tickets, contact the Dominican University box office at (708) 488-5000 or purchase tickets online at www.dom.edu/pac. General admission tickets are $5.

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