The title of playwright Wendy Wasserstein’s 1977 off-Broadway hit, “Uncommon Women and Others,” accurately described the roles which brought original cast member Swoosie Kurtz two Tonys, one Emmy – and universal renown as a character actress par excellence. In the years since she first caught theatergoers’ attention with her quirkily endearing performance as a sex-obsessed Mount Holyoke graduate in Wasserstein’s semi-autobiographical ensemble drama, the petite redhead – named after a Boeing B-17 bomber – demonstrated her formidable range on stage, screen, and television. Not many actresses
