SOURCE: An interview in Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol. 15, No. 3, 1988, pp. 257-70.

In the following interview, Wasserstein talks about her plays Uncommon Women and Others and Isn't It Romantic, and shares her views on humor and feminism.

Challenged by my esteemed editor to write a printable article on women writers and humor in theatre (try to imagine a scene from The Front Page, only in an Indian restaurant—"Esther, get me that article, and pass the poori!"), I decided that I had nothing to say that one such writer couldn't say for herself. Thus, with the lure of a bottle of Diet Coke and the promise of being quoted in an academic journal, Wendy Wasserstein agreed to be interviewed for this article. I met Wendy, the noted playwright, author of Uncommon Women and Others, Isn't It Romantic? and Miami, and a contributing editor to New York Woman...