Upcoming: The Heidi Chronicles, City Theatre, March 26 - April 19

UPDATE: ALT review of The Heidi Chronicles, March 30

From the City Theatre:

The Heidi Chronicles
March 26 - April 19

THE CHRONICLES OF AN ERA: the hit play that speaks for feminism, freedom, friendship, and a generation of women. Winner of almost every national theatre award including the Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize.

Written by Wendy Wasserstein, an eloquent voice for a generation of American women. The hit play charts one feminist’s path from the tumultuous‘60s through the isolated ‘80s, but her journey is timeless.


THE HEIDI CHRONICLES
Cast List

Heidi: Rachel McGinnis
Susan: Christa Haxthausen
Peter: Gabe Smith
Scoop: Charles P. Stites
Ensemble: Katie Christman,
Samantha Brewer
Stacey Glazer
Martina Ohlhauser
Bridget Farias
Chris, Mark, Easter Bunny,
Waiter, Ray: Sesar Sandoval

About the Play:

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Tony Award,and many other nationally recognized awards.

A significant and celebrated play, which was first presented by Off-Broadway's Playwrights Horizons and went on to become a long-run Broadway success.

"Funny, touching, and written with rare grace and sensitivity, the play is a moving examination of the progress of a generation. Not many plays manage Heidi's feat of inducing almost continuous laughter while forcing the audience to examine its preconceptions…It's the play of the season…" —Variety.

Comprised of a series of interrelated scenes, the play traces the coming of age of Heidi Holland, a successful art historian, as she tries to find her bearings in a rapidly changing world. Gradually distancing herself from her friends, she watches them move from the idealism and political radicalism of their college years through militant feminism and, eventually, back to the materialism that they had sought to reject in the first place.

Heidi's own path to maturity involves an affair with the glib, arrogant Scoop Rosenbaum, a womanizing lawyer/publisher who eventually marries for money and position; a deeper but even more troubling relationship with a charming, witty young pediatrician, Peter Patrone, who turns out to be gay; and increasingly disturbing contacts with the other women, now much changed, who were a part of her childhood and college years.

Eventually Heidi comes to accept the fact that liberation can be achieved only if one is true to oneself, with goals that come out of need rather than circumstance. As the play ends she is still "alone," but having adopted an orphaned baby, it is clear that she has begun to find a sense of fulfillment and continuity that may well continue to elude the others of her anxious, self-centered generation.