The Heidi Chronicles

Written by Wendy Wasserstein

Narrated by Kaitlin Hopkins, Martha Plimpton and Full Cast

This Pulitzer Prize winning play is the tale of a baby-boomer's long, hard road from 60's confusion to 1990's self-assured woman...or so she hopes.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Lisa Akey, Kosha Engler, Kaitlin Hopkins, Barbara Klein, Lisa Pelikan, Martha Plimpton, Scot Reese, Raphael Sbarge and Grant Shaud.

• Language: English
• Publisher: L.A. Theatre Works
• Release date: Jan 1, 2004
• ISBN: 9781580814560

Reviews for The Heidi Chronicles

[davischristopherjohn · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This play made so much more sense to me today than when I had to read it in college. The actor playing Heidi is wonderful, and the interview at the end of this audiobook version was fascinating.

[sarah220-732610 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Reading a play is never as good as watching a play.

Follows Heidi in her quest to "have it all." At times it is insightful but I feel like ending the play with Heidi adopting a baby as the way to find happiness was...unfortunate.

[aliceanna-1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

This is a good play, but Wasserstein seems to imply (more than once) that a woman can't have a full life without a husband and children. I find this play rather depressing. Heidi had so much going for her. Why did she need a baby for completion? I guess it's just me. I can't identify with the maternal thing.

[meditationesmartini · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

It's weird, I only bought this because it had the same name as my baby, and I missed her. s that pathetic? Anyway, it's not my normal sort of thing. It has a bit less of that female bonding that sits comfortably in between Golden Girls and Sex and the City than Wasserstein's other plays, and more internally focused fretting--I can relate to Heidi's fears about a career and a family and getting taken advantage of to a point but no further, and the insistence Wasserstein has on writing exclusively about rich WASPs and rich Jews in New York and their serious life problems can be a bit alienating when none of them have any particular warmth for one another, as seems to be the case this time out. If this was my Heidi maybe I could relate a little better. I miss understanding her.