Wendy Wasserstein (1950-2006)

By TAMSEN WOLFF

I arrived at Smith College some 20 years after Wendy Wasserstein attended neighboring Mount Holyoke, which she wrote about famously in her first major play, Uncommon Women and Others (1977). Even as — or perhaps because — I majored in theater and women's studies, I was cavalierly dismissive of Wasserstein's work. The plays seemed...