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The Heidi Chronicles

Presented by Ritz Theatre Company at Ritz Theatre Company

June 11-June 21, 2009

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The Heidi Chronicles is a 1988 play by Wendy Wasserstein. The play premiered in 1988 off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons where there were 99 performances. After transferring to the Broadway Plymouth Theatre on 9 March 1989, the play went on to stage 622 performances before closing on September 1, 1990. Both productions were directed by Daniel Sullivan, starring Joan Allen as Heidi. Sarah Jessica Parker was featured in three small roles before being replaced by Cynthia Nixon. The first major production mounted after Wasserstein's death was at the Berkshire Theatre Festival during the summer of 2006. The plot follows Heidi Holland from high school in the 1960s to her career as a successful art historian more than twenty years later. The play's main themes deal with the changing role of women during this time period, describing both Heidi's ardent feminism during the 1970s and her eventual sense of betrayal during the 1980s. Though most of the characters are women, there are two important male characters; Peter Patrone, a gay pediatrician who is arguably Heidi's best friend, and Scoop Rosenbaum, a magazine editor who marries and has many affairs, and with whom Heidi has a tense friendship.