‘An American Daughter’ Still Not Quite of Age

‘An American Daughter’ Still Not Quite of Age

A revival of Wendy Wasserstein’s 1997 political drama is undermined by uneven performances.

‘An American Daughter’ – Spin, Gender and Power

By A;ix Cohen... Wendy Wasserstein’s excellent play skewers politics, media frenzy, and the double standards women face in public life. It asks why accomplished women are so often held to impossible expectations.

An American Daughter Review

The new production of the 1997 play “An American Daughter” has so much going for it that it takes a while to realize how much of a clunker it is.  Written by the late Wendy Wasserstein (her third Broadway comedy after  The Heidi Chronicles and The Sisters Rosensweig),  it focuses on one Lyssa Dent Hughes (portrayed by Jean Lichty), a fixture in Washington D.C. society.  The daughter of a U.S. Senator, the great-great-great-granddaughter of Ulyss…