Uncommon Women and Others

"Wendy Wasserstein's two-act play +Uncommon Women and Others comes to DVD in a very nice looking digital transfer of the original 1978 public television broadcast. As with many videotaped productions, the image has a softness in the wider shots, but the color content and detail are otherwise just fine; the color, in fact, is quite rich. The sound has held up extremely well, as well. The 90-minute production (plus an original introduction by Hal Holbrook, every traditional feminist's favorite leading man) has been given 17 chapter markers designating each scene, and if one skips over the five-minute introduction to the ""Broadway Theatre Archive"" series, the disc is easy enough to maneuver. There is also a simple two-choice, manually-accessible menu."