All The Drama: “The Heidi Chronicles”, 1989 Winner, Pulitzer Prize for Drama

All The Drama is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of deep dives into the plays that have won The Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

The Pulitzer Prize for Drama: The Heidi Chronicles, by Wendy Wasserstein

The Heidi Chronicles Wikipedia page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heidi_Chronicles

Wendy Wasserstein Wikipedia page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Wasserstein

“Wendy and the Lost Boys” by Julie Salamon
https://amazon.com/Wendy-Lost-Boys-Uncommon-Wasserstein-ebook/dp/B004IYJEUG/

Wendy Wasserstein obit in The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/31/theater/wendy-wasserstein-dies-at-55-her-plays-spoke-to-a-generation.html

The Heidi Chronicles script
https://smile.amazon.com/Heidi-Chronicles-Acting-Theater-Productions/dp/0822205106/

“Heidi Chronicled” by Wendy Wasserstein, The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1995/03/06/heidi-chronicled

“Start a Revolution! Trace the Evolution of Wendy Wasserstein's Groundbreaking Play The Heidi Chronicles” by Gemma Wilson, Broadway Buzz
https://www.broadway.com/buzz/179984/start-a-revolution-trace-the-evolution-of-wendy-wassersteins-groundbreaking-play-the-heidi-chronicles/

“Feminism and `The Heidi Chronicles': Betty Freidan and Gloria Steinem Reflect” by Lisa Low, The Christian Science Monitor
https://www.csmonitor.com/layout/set/print/1989/1010/l1wend.html

“Management Women and the New Facts of Life,” the 1989b Harvard Business Review article on working women by Felice N. Schwartz
https://hbr.org/1989/01/management-women-and-the-new-facts-of-life

“When Newsweek ‘Struck Terror in the Hearts of Single Women’” by Megan Garber, The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/06/more-likely-to-be-killed-by-a-terrorist-than-to-get-married/485171/

“A Modern-Day Heffalump in Search of Herself,” review of the original production by Mel Gussow
https://www.nytimes.com/1988/12/12/theater/review-theater-a-modern-day-heffalump-in-search-of-herself.html

“‘The Heidi Chronicles,’ With Elisabeth Moss, Opens on Broadway,” review of the 2015 revival by Charles Isherwood
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/20/theater/review-the-heidi-chronicles-with-elisabeth-moss-opens-on-broadway.html

The Heidi Chronicles Audible recording of Martha Plimpton in a L.A. Theatre Works production
https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Heidi-Chronicles-Audiobook/B002UZDV3Q

The Heidi Chronicles TV movie with Jamie Lee Curtis
https://amazon.com/Heidi-Chronicles-Jamie-Lee-Curtis/dp/B00GC2KILG/

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