Podcasts about uncommon women and others

Wendy Wasserstein's best known play, "The Heidi Chronicles," won both the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play in 1989. Many of the themes of this feminist classic were already evident in "Uncommon Women and Others," a play written by Wasserstein a decade earlier. "Uncommon Women" is on stage at the Princeton Summer Theater through July 22nd. For this podcast, producer Susan Wallner spoke to the Dean of the College at Princeton University and author of a book about Wendy Wasserstein, Jill Dolan. Dolan points out that the hopes and fears of young women about to make critical life choices after college continue to resonate today.

On this episode, Bob Wilcox and Gerry Kowarsky review (1) BOEING BOEING, by Marc Camoletti, trans. by Beverley Cross, at Dramatic License Productions, (2) NEXT TO NORMAL, by Tom Kitt & Brian Yorkey, at New Line Theatre, (3) THE BOOK OF MORMON, by Trey Parker, Matt Stone, & Robert Lopez, at the Fox Theatre, (4) LILIES OF THE FIELD, adapted by F. Andrew Leslie from William E. Barrett, at Kirkwood Theatre Guild, (5) BRIEFS: A FESTIVAL OF SHORT LGBT PLAYS, at That Uppity Theatre Co. & The Vital Voice, (6) THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE, by William Finn & Rachel Scheinkin, at St. Louis Univ., and (7) UNCOMMON WOMEN AND OTHERS, by Wendy Wasserstein, at Webster Univ. Conservatory.

Swoosie Kurtz talks about tackling her first role in a play by George Bernard Shaw in "Heartbreak House"; how she went from Air Force brat to the only American student at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art; her major stage appearances in the original "Uncommon Women and Others", "Fifth of July" and "The House of Blue Leaves"; and why she personally raised $250,000 to insure that "Frozen" made the leap to Broadway. Original air date - October 27, 2006.

Swoosie Kurtz talks about tackling her first role in a play by George Bernard Shaw in "Heartbreak House"; how she went from Air Force brat to the only American student at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art; her major stage appearances in the original "Uncommon Women and Others", "Fifth of July" and "The House of Blue Leaves"; and why she personally raised $250,000 to insure that "Frozen" made the leap to Broadway. Original air date - October 27, 2006.

Swoosie Kurtz talks about tackling her first role in a play by George Bernard Shaw in "Heartbreak House"; how she went from Air Force brat to the only American student at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art; her major stage appearances in the original "Uncommon Women and Others", "Fifth of July" and "The House of Blue Leaves"; and why she personally raised $250,000 to insure that "Frozen" made the leap to Broadway. Original air date - October 27, 2006.