A rash that forms a question mark between a middle-aged woman's legs? In a play that may have overtones of an autobiographical relationship to its playwright, that may be just a bit too much information. However, when the playwright in question (so to speak), is Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Wendy Wasserstein, one has to wonder if the dermatological punctuation mark signals a new dimension in her generation-defining explorations into the lives of contemporary women.

Wasserstein's new piece consists of two companion one-acts, called Welcome To My Rash and Third. The first new stage works from the playwright in several years, the plays are described as "chamber works" by Ari Roth, [...]