Bachelor Girls (Wasserstein)
Bader, Jenny Lyn
Baird, Zoë
Baraka, Amiri
Barakiva, Michael
Barbarians at the Gate (Burrough and Helyar)
Barrie, J. M.
Barth, Belle
Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel, The (Rabe)
Beatty, John Lee
Bell’s palsy
Bendix Corporation
Bennett, Michael
Berkman, Leonard
Bernstein, Lewis
Better Dead Than Sorry (Durang)
Betteridge, Annie
Beyond Therapy (Durang)
Bianco, Anthony
Big Deal (B. Wasserstein)
Bishop, André
background of
daughter adopted by
Heidi Chronicles and
at Lincoln Center Theater
Manning and
marriage to WW contemplated by
at Playwrights Horizons
Sisters Rosensweig and
WW’s relationship with
black-power movement
Blatt, Susan
Blazing Saddles (film)
Blount, Roy, Jr.
Blumberg, Baruch
“Body Minimal” (Wasserstein)
Bolotin, Susan
Bonfire of the Vanities, The (Wolfe)
Boston Globe
Brantley, Ben
Brearley School
Bright Lights, Big City (McInerney)
Brightman, Rebecca
Brokaw, Mark
Brooks, Gwendolyn
Brooks, Mel
Brooks, Rhoda
Brown, Helen Gurley
Brustein, Robert
Buatta, Mario
Café des Artistes
Calhounder
Calhoun School
Cambridge University
Campath treatments
Caramoor
Carnival (Merrill and Stewart)
Carousel (Rogers and Hammerstein)
Carter, Betsy
Casamassino, Emmy
Cassillo, Ken
Catch
Cavanaugh, Jim
Cazale, John
Central Park (opera)
Charlie Rose Show
Cheever, John
Chekhov, Anton
Cherry Orchard, The (Chekhov)
Choragos
Chorus Line, A (Hamlisch, Kleban, Kirkwood and Dante)
Ciechocinek, Poland
Citicorp
City College of New York
Civil Rights Act (1964)
Clark Center for the Performing Arts
Clinton, Bill
Clinton, Hillary
Close, Glenn
Clueless (film)
Cohn, Sam
Coleman, Cy
Collins, Billy
Collins, Gail
Columbia, David Patrick
Columbia Law School
Comedy Zone, The (TV show)
Coming Attractions (Tally)
“Complications” (Wasserstein)
Cooperstown, N.Y.
Cosmey, Beatrice
Couser, William
Coward, Noël
Cravath, Swaine & Moore
Cuervo, Alma
Cunningham, Mary
Curtis, Jamie Lee
Daley, Richard
Dalton
Darling, Wendy (char.)
Dartmouth College
Das Lusitania Songspiel (Durang and Weaver)
Day, Doris
Deer Hunter, The (film)
Democratic National Convention (1968)
De Niro, Robert
Design for Living (Coward)
Devereaux School
Diary of a Lost Boy (Kondoleon)
Dickinson, Emily
D’Lugoff, Art
Donovan, Arlene
“Don’t Tell Mother” (Wasserstein)
Dramatists Guild Hull-Warriner Award
Drattell, Deborah
Dresdner Bank
Durang, Christopher
WW’s relationship with
at Yale Drama School
Durning, Charles
Eder, Richard
Edward John Noble Foundation
Eikenberry, Jill
Elements of Style (Wasserstein)
Elliott, John “Jock,”
Ellsberg, Daniel
Esquire
Ethical Culture School
Ettinger, Heidi
Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center
Evans, Peter
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask) (Reuben)
Experiment in International Living
“Family Wasserstein, The” (Hoban)
Feder, Gwen
Feldman, Jack
Female Eunuch, The (Greer)
Feminine Mystique, The (Friedan)
feminist movement
Festival of Regrets (Drattell and Wasserstein)
Fiddler on the Roof (Bock, Stein and Harnick)
Finn, William
First Boston Corporation
Ford, Gerald
Foreman, James
42nd Street Development Corporation
42nd Street Gang
“Fragile City, The” (Wasserstein)
Francis, Felice “Fay” Harriman
Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (McNally)
Franny and Zooey (Salinger)
Fraser, Antonia
Fraser, Flora
French Connection, The (film)
Freudenberger, Daniel
Friedan, Betty
Friends (TV show)
Gable, Kay
Garn, Aimee
Garnett, Lorraine
Geller, Phyllis
Gemini (Innaurato)
General Foods
Geniuses (Reynolds)
Georgy Girl (film)
Gersten, Bernard
Getty Oil Company
Ghosts of 42nd Street (Bianco)
Gillman, Richard
Girl from Fargo, The (McNally and Wasserstein)
Glimmerglass Opera
Godfather, The (Puzo)
Godfrey, Arthur
Goldsmith, Ilene
Goldstein, Laurie
Goold, Philippa
Graham, Cathy
Graham, Donald
Graham, Katharine
Graham, Stephen
Grand Central Station
Grass, Günter
Green, Mark J.
Greer, Germaine
Gregory, Dick
Grody, Kathryn
Guare, John
Guillain-Barré syndrome
Gunton, Bob
Gurney, A. R.
Gussow, Mel
Gutierrez, Gerald
cancer of
death of
as director
WW’s relationship with
Gutierrez, Obdulia “Julie,”
Hackett, Peter
Hair (MacDermott, Ragni and Rado)
Hamlisch, Marvin
Hammond, Edward Crowninshield
Harper’s Bazaar
Harris, Roy
Harvard Business School
Harvard Law School
Hathaway, Anne
Haun, Harry
Heidi (Spyri)
Heidi Chronicles, The (Wasserstein)
Playwrights Horizons production of
Seattle Rep workshop of
TV movie of
Helena Rubinstein Charm School
Heller, Joseph
Hellman, Lillian
Herman, Susan
Hiss, Alger
History of the American Film, A (Durang)
Hoban, Phoebe
Hoffman, William
Hollander, David
Holocaust
Hornig, George R.
Horovitz, Israel
Houseman, John
House of Blue Leaves (Guare)
House
of Husbands (unproduced film)
“How I Spent My Forties” (Wasserstein)
“Husbands” (McGrath)
Hytner, Nicholas
Idiots Karamazov, The (Durang and Innaurato)
Imbrie, Ann E.
Indian Wants the Bronx, The (Horovitz)
Innaurato, Albert
International Creative Management
in vitro fertilization
Isabell, Robert
Isn’t It Romantic (Wasserstein)
Phoenix Theatre production of
Playwrights Horizons production of
“Itch to Hitch, The” (Wasserstein)
Jacobs, Bernard
Jamaica
James, Charles
Janovsky, Adele
Javits, Jacob K.
Jewishness:
as theme in Sisters Rosensweig
in WW’s identity
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Joskow, Margaret
Judge, Julia
June Taylor School of Dance
Kahn, Madeline
Kakutani, Michiko
Kandel, Eric
Kaplan, James
at Columbia Law
in McCarthy campaign
at 1968 Democratic Convention
WW’s relationship with
at Yale
Kaplan, Muriel
Karl, Ruth
Uncommon Women and
WW’s correspondence with
Kaufman, Barry
Kaufman, Gucci (Gertrude) Schleifer
Kaufman, Max
Kaufman, Mitchell
Kenilworth hotel
Kennedy, John F., assassination of
Kent State massacre
Kernochan, Sarah
Kerr, Walter
Kershaw, Andrew G.
Key West Literary Seminar
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Kinsley, Michael
Kissel, Howard
Kiss of the Spider Woman (Kander, Ebb and McNally)
Kleban, Edward
Kleban Foundation
Kondoleon, Harry
Kramer, Larry
Kramer, Mimi
Krementz, Jill
Kurtz, Swoosie
Kushner, Tony
Lahti, Christine
Landesman, Rocco
Lapine, James
Lazard Frères
League of Professional Theatre Women
Lee, Ming Cho
Lehrer, Scott
Lepage, Lucy
Lesser, Ann-Ellen
Levine, Herbert
Levis, Albert
Levis, Georgette Wasserstein
Abner’s reunion with
childhood and adolescence of
family secrets and
“Gorgeous” nickname of
marriage of Albert Levis and
and Sandra’s death
Sisters Rosensweig and
Uncommon Women and
Levis, Melissa
Levis, Tajlei
Lewinsky, Monica
Life in the Theatre, A (Mamet)
Lincoln Center Theater
Lips Together, Teeth Apart (McNally)
Long, Laura
Long, William Ivey
and Lucy Jane’s birth
WW’s relationship with
Long Beach, Calif.
Lowell Hotel
Lyon, Mary
Lyons, John
Lysistrata (Aristophanes)
McBurney School
McCarthy, Eugene
McCauley, Stephen
MacDowell Colony
McGovern, George
McGrath, Charles
McInerney, Jay
McKenzie, Kevin
McNally, Terrence
WW’s relationship with
MacVey, Alan
Mademoiselle
Maidman, Irving
Making Scences (Brustein)
Mamet, David
Manhattan Theater Club
Manning, Peter
March of the Falsettos (Finn)
Marjorie Morningstar (Wouk)
Marriage of Bette & Boo (Durang)
Martin, Mary
Mayo Clinic
Meadow, Lynne
“Meaning of Life, The” (Wasserstein; column)
Medea (Durang and Wasserstein)
Mehta, Sonny
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Merry Widow, The (Lehár), WW’s libretto for
Meyer, Richard
Meyer, Sandra Wasserstein
Andrew Kershaw and
cancer of
childhood and adolescence of
corporate career of
death of
in London
marriage of Peter Schweitzer and
marriage of Richard Meyer and
memorial service for
musicals as love of
Polish trip of WW and
Sisters Rosensweig and
WW’s relationship with
WW told about Lola and George by
Miami (Feldman, Sussman and Wasserstein)
Michigan, University of
Miramax Films
Montgomery Fellowship
Montpelier Pa-zazz (Wasserstein)
Moore, Honor
Morgan, Marabel
Mosher, Gregory
Moss, Robert
Mossman, Merrily
Mount Holyoke Alumnae Quarterly
Mount Holyoke College
black-power movement at
drug use at
Lysistrata production at
sexual revolution and
student handbook of
Uncommon Women and
WW’s honorary degree from
Ms.
“My Life in the Theater” (Wasserstein)
Nader, Ralph
Nader’s Raiders
Nantucket
Nation
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
National Playwrights Conference
Nature and Purpose of the Universe, The (Durang)
Nazis, Nazism
Nelligan, Kate
Newell, Eleanor
Newell, Ray
New Republic
Newsweek
New Woman
New York
New York, N.Y.
42nd Street revitalization in
1976 financial crisis in
New York City Ballet
New York City Opera
New York Daily News
New Yorker
WW’s essays in
New York Post
New York Shakespeare Festival
New York Society Library
New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA)
New York Theatre Workshop
New York Times
WW’s articles in
New York Times Magazine
New York Woman
Nixon, Richard
No Laughing Matter (Heller)
Normal Heart, The (Kramer)
Nutcracker, The (ballet)
Object of My Affection, The (film)
Object of My Affection, The (McCauley)
O’Dwyer, Paul
Ogilvy & Mather
Old Money (Wasserstein)
Oliver, Edith
Olsen, Tillie
Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy
O’Neill, Eugene
O’Neill Theatre Center, see Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center
Open Doors (Theatre Development Fund program)
“Orphans’ Christmas for the Jews,”
Our Bodies, Ourselves
Outer Critics Circle Award
Oxford University Press
Pacino, Al
Pamela’s First Musical (Wasserstein)
musical adaptation of
Papp, Joseph
Parker, Ellen
Parker, Sarah Jessica
Parmelee, Elizabeth
Parnell, Peter
Paterson Talmud Torah
Patrone, Mary Jane
Uncommon Women and
Peach, Camilla
Pentagon Papers
Perella, Joseph
Peter Pan (Barrie)
Amherst production of
Peter Pan (Charlap and Leigh)
Phillips Academy, Andover
Phillips Exeter Academy
Phoenix Theatre
Pinter, Harold
Playwrights Horizons
Heidi Chronicles produced by
Isn’t It Romantic produced by
Miami workshop at
Uncommon Women workshop at
Playwrights Horizons Queens
Playwrights Unit
Plymouth Theatre
Poland, Holocaust in
Powerplay (Cunningham)
Psyche in Love (Wasserstein)
Public Broadcasting System (PBS)
Public Theater
Pulitzer Prize
Puzo, Mario
Quayle, Dan
Quinn, Nancy
Rabbino, Irma L.
Rabe, David
Rabe, Lily
Rai, Kanti
Reagan, Ronald
Redel, Irving
Redgrave, Lynne
Reuben, David
Reynolds, Jonathan
Rich, Frank
WW’s relationship with
Richard Halliburton’s Complete Book of Marvels
Richards, Lloyd
Richardson, Justin
Riegert, Peter
Rimmer, David
Ritter, Jason
Ritz, The (McNally)
Robbins, Freda
Roberts, Louise
Robman, Steven
Rochester, N.Y.
Rochester Arts & Lectures
Rockefeller, Nelson
Roe v. Wade
Rohatyn, Felix
Rolling Stone
Rose, Charlie
Rose, Lloyd
Rosen, Felice, see Francis, Felice “Fay” Harriman
Rosen, Felix
Rosen, Jeffrey
Rosen, Walter and Lucie
Rosenthal, Jane
Rosh Hashanah
Roskind, Kathy
Roskind, Mrs.
Ross, Alex
Ross, Betsy
Ross, Clifford
Roth, Ari
Rothman, Carole
Rothstein, Mervyn
Royce Carlton
Rudd, Paul
Rudnick, Paul
Sachs, Harriet
Uncommon Women and
Salinger, J. D.
Saltzberg, Sarah
Sawyer, Forrest
Scarry, Gretchen
Schifter, Peter
Schleifer, Gucci, see Kaufman, Gucci (Gertrude) Schleifer
Schleifer, Hela
Schleifer, Helen
Schleifer, Jack
Schleifer, Simon
Schleiger, Henry
Schweitzer, Jenifer
Schweitzer, Peter (CBS producer)
Schweitzer, Peter (Sandra Meyer’s husband)
Schweitzer, Samantha
Scorsese, Martin
Seattle Repertory Theatre
Second Stage Theatre
Secret of My Success, The (film)
Sedgeley, Carlton
Seidman, Patricia
September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks
Sesame Street (TV show)
Seventeen
Sex and Longing (Durang)
Sex and the City (TV show)
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