An American Daughter is worth seeing

I don’t think it’s necessarily the best written play, but let me tell you, there’s some great ideas being presented in this play. It evokes a bygone era in politics when skipping out on jury duty would be a big scandal. Today, this would be a nothing burger. Written in the mid 90s, it feels like Wendy Wasserstein was ahead of her time with all of the themes of intersectionality and progress through the generations, and how women want different things, and how women are fvcked in this man’s world, and ultimately to keep moving forward. She walked so Bess Wohl and Annie Baker and Shaina Taub could run.


It’s a little bit of a slow burn so stay with it. My biggest criticism was the leading lady. There weren’t many colors to her performance. There’s so much you could do with a role like that, and she kinda seems laissez faire throughout the whole play. She has a very distinct voice, it sounds very smarmy so it comes across as a parody of Hillary Clinton. Overall, a pretty good evening at the theater.