Full of promise but no prizes: women playwrights suffer for their age | Alexis Soloski
American theatre's Wasserstein prize for young, female writers has failed to find a winner. I'm not surprised " but is it really a gender issue?The playwright Wendy Wasserstein had some tart words about artistic precocity. "Because of Mozart, it's all over after the age of seven," she quipped. Wasserstein herself first tasted success reasonably young. By the time she was 27, her play Uncommon Women and Othe…