[5] Quilters opened on Broadway at the Jack Lawrence Theatre on September 25, 1984 and closed on October 14, 1984 after 24 performances and 5 previews.

Some in the conservative midwestern area questioned the inclusion of the herbal abortion allusion in the Frontier Follies production.

[8] In the American West, Sarah, a pioneer woman, and six women, who are called her daughters, face frontier life.

The patches or blocks show "girlhood, marriage, childbirth, spinsterhood, twisters, fire, illness and death.

In his New York Times review, Frank Rich wrote that "Quilters is a static melange of skits, monologues and songs unified by a theme rather than a sustained plot or characters.

Handsome and tidy pieces of work, they combine at the end to make one huge quilt, which is raised high, the flag of pioneer womanhood.