With 'Sisters Rosensweig,' Wendy Wasserstein's women-centric storytelling returns to the limelight

There was a time, not too long ago, when it seemed like you could barely sit down in New York City without watching one of Wendy Wasserstein’s plays.

The writer, who died in 2006 at only 55, was a darling of Broadway throughout the 1980s and 1990s, beloved for her wit as well as her sympathetic...