| 单词 | Albee |
| 例句 | As she sits down and sulks, Volpe moves on to Edward Albee’s The Goat. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z The answers are both obvious and obscure, in the style of early absurdist domestic portraits by Edward Albee, though Mr. Calvani has added his own level of economic allegory. Theater Review: ‘AdA,’ Plays by Neil LaBute and Marco Calvani at La MaMa 2012-10-05T22:24:29Z Marian Seldes, an actress who during six decades on stage became one of the most admired figures in American theater, renowned particularly for her interpretations of the works of Edward Albee, died Oct. Marian Seldes, celebrated stage actress and interpreter of Albee, dies at 86 At an award panel lunch, Marian Seldes, another brilliant Albee player, once explained in a discussion of an iconoclastic work that a playwright creates a universe and gives that universe a language all its own. The genius of Edward Albee and the inner voice that brought difficult truths to the stage 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z Mr. Albee’s other plays include adaptations of the Carson McCullers novella “The Ballad of the Sad Cafe”; of “Malcolm,” a novel by James Purdy, and of Vladimir Nabokov’s great novel of sexual obsession, “Lolita.” Edward Albee, Trenchant Playwright Who Laid Bare Modern Life, Dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Albee was attracted to that idea, but he was also an American, which meant that storytelling of one sort or another was in his blood. Postscript: Edward Albee, 1928-2016 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z One gets the sense that, growing up and beyond, Albee was rather proud of his put-downs; he wanted to hurt the world he could never show had hurt him. Postscript: Edward Albee, 1928-2016 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z In 1967, he established the Edward F. Albee Foundation, which offers residencies to writers and visual artists in a barn at Mr. Albee’s home in Montauk. Edward Albee, Pulitzer-winning playwright of modern masterpieces, dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Related Times Topics: Edward Albee | Steppenwolf Theatre Company But in Chicago his renown as a playwright came as the second act of an already established career as a performer. | 'Who?s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?': Watch It, Martha: This George Is a Stealth Bomb 2010-12-13T03:01:00Z I probably shouldn’t have been surprised by the kinetic force of Jackson, who was about to return to Broadway for the first time in three decades in a revival of Edward Albee’s “Three Tall Women.” Glenda Jackson, an Unnervingly Energizing Presence at Every Age 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z The play was twice scheduled for production at Signature Theater, an Off Broadway nonprofit in New York, and twice withdrawn by Albee, who said it wasn’t ready. Edward Albee’s Final Wish: Destroy My Unfinished Work 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z For the next two decades, however, Mr. Albee produced more prickly puzzles. Edward Albee, Pulitzer-winning playwright of modern masterpieces, dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Sexual fetish can be the stuff of great art, as Nabokov's "Lolita," Edward Albee's "The Goat" or J.G. Review: 'The Cut' at Open Circle Theater delivers little pleasure with its close shaves 2011-01-20T23:40:05Z It lasted for 12 performances and no doubt hastened Mr. Albee’s decade-long exile from the commercial New York theater. Theater Review: ?Edward Albee?s The Lady From Dubuque? at End Stage Theater 2012-03-06T03:00:39Z Seldes won a Tony for her supporting role in Edward Albee’s “A Delicate Balance,” and her stylized form of acting was an ideal fit for his plays. Marian Seldes: Her life and career were a master class 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z Someone who knew Albee told me he was looking for an assistant, and suggested I put myself up for the job. The Tender Side of Edward Albee 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z Given Albee’s interest in the stage as an arena for ideas, it seems strange that critics and audiences rejected important works such as “Box” and “Quotations From Mao Tse-Tung.” Postscript: Edward Albee, 1928-2016 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z Theatre critic … Edward Albee says the focus these days is not on the best plays but the ones that will sell the most tickets. 'Broadway is junk' 2013-01-28T12:52:30Z Albee is best known for “Virginia Woolf,” a penetrating 1962 drama that was adapted into a film starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Edward Albee’s Final Wish: Destroy My Unfinished Work 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z Mr. Albee’s “powerful, angry satiric voice” reinvigorated a Broadway that had been defined by the dramatic works of O’Neill, Miller and Williams, Roudane said. Edward Albee, Pulitzer-winning playwright of modern masterpieces, dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z “If there is a single theme that runs through Edward Albee’s work, it is the importance of being open to a full consciousness of life, with all the social and emotional risk that that entails.” Sunday Reading: A Night at the Theatre 2019-06-30T04:00:00Z The problem is that “The Zoo Story,” one of Albee’s greatest plays, doesn’t need elaboration. Deaf West sets out to tame 'Edward Albee's At Home at the Zoo' 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z Her looks made her an ideal muse for Albee, whose plays dissect the inner lives of upper-class WASPs. Marian Seldes death: Five notable stage performances 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z Edward Albee’s signature play about matrimonial discord, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” will be the spring entry in the Bagley Wright Theatre. Seattle Rep’s 2013-14 season: ‘The Suit,’ Holmes’ hound and ‘Virginia Woolf’ 2013-05-01T21:49:20Z The story ends with an ambitiously staged sequence that reaches for another level of feeling, but it’s hard for anything to match the bruising depiction of Albee and Walker’s rough road to that point. ‘The Wheel’ Review: Songs of Love and Hate 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z “If Shakespeare is all on the page, Albee is almost all under the page.” Rick Foucheux paints a possible stage exit with an intimate ‘King Lear’ 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z But as happened in 2012 with the Signature’s superb revival of “The Lady From Dubuque,” a two-week flop from 1980, time often proves Albee’s terrors right, and also his small consolations. Review: Is Edward Albee ‘At Home at the Zoo’? You Bet He Is. 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z They are the words with which Edward Albee greeted the world in his first play, “The Zoo Story,” back in 1959. Review: Is Edward Albee ‘At Home at the Zoo’? You Bet He Is. 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z Albee characterizes Fornés’s theatrical art as “taking stuff from the unconscious and letting that create form . . . she discovers what she’s writing by writing it.” An Extraordinary Documentary Portrait of a Playwright Facing Alzheimer’s Disease 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z They also show his facility with the tricky language of Albee, which, while much more spare than Shakespeare’s, is no mean feat. The Week Ahead: Oct. 16 ? 22 2011-10-14T16:46:11Z Even as a straight play, “Lolita” would be a tough sell: Edward Albee learned as much when his 1981 adaptation closed on Broadway after 12 performances. An Infamous ‘Lolita’ Musical Gets a Belated New York Debut 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z What happened, the lament went, to the Edward Albee who wrote “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” his breakout hit from 1962. Theater Review: ?Edward Albee?s The Lady From Dubuque? at End Stage Theater 2012-03-06T03:00:39Z Albee did like plot and ideas, and often in his work the idea was the story. Postscript: Edward Albee, 1928-2016 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z Audience members may find themselves thinking at moments of the truth-and-illusion games played by the couples in Strindberg’s “Dance of Death,” Pinter’s “Old Times” and in particular Mr. Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” Theater Review: ‘Tender Napalm’ by Philip Ridley at 59E59 Theaters 2012-08-30T02:00:15Z She is known as an interpreter of Edward Albee, the playwright who wrote “Virginia Woolf.” Pam MacKinnon, Tony-Winning Director, to Lead San Francisco Theater 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z But the New York Post found the production "equal parts boozy and boring" and said even a "starry cast can't lift Albee revival out of its ho-hum mood." Glenn Close heads all-star cast in revival of 'A Delicate Balance' 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z Mr. Gurney’s writing never brought him the fame and wealth of contemporaries like Edward Albee and Neil Simon. A Patrician Older Gentleman Morphs Into an Angry Young Man 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z “I try to, but I can’t control the world,” Edward Albee once said. Edward Albee, the last of the giants 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z Like many of us, Albee learned to cope—to build the defenses he felt were necessary to survive—while sitting on his mother’s knee. Postscript: Edward Albee, 1928-2016 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z He only had one crack at Albee, playing a supporting role in “The Goat” at Arena. Rick Foucheux paints a possible stage exit with an intimate ‘King Lear’ 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z Art most effectively imitated life in the adaptation of Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" - in which Taylor and Burton played mates who fought viciously and drank heavily. Quintessential star Elizabeth Taylor dies at 79 2011-03-24T10:32:15Z Albee, whose other works include "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" New Edward Albee play a Signature highlight 2013-03-13T14:08:07Z It is also unclear whether Albee left any other incomplete manuscripts behind, or whether the language in the will could be interpreted to apply to early drafts of his published plays. Edward Albee’s Final Wish: Destroy My Unfinished Work 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z Anyway, unless you are Edward Albee, that three-ages-of-woman gimmick is subtractive, not additive. Review: In ‘The Cher Show,’ I Got You, Babe. And You. And You. 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z But as David Esbjornson’s crisp production reminds us, the Albee of “Virginia Woolf” is very much present in “Dubuque.” Theater Review: ?Edward Albee?s The Lady From Dubuque? at End Stage Theater 2012-03-06T03:00:39Z In addition to her volumes on Beckett, Ms. Cohn wrote other books about modern American and British theater and analyses of playwrights, including artistic descendants of Beckett like Edward Albee, Harold Pinter and Caryl Churchill. Ruby Cohn, Theater Scholar and Beckett Authority, Dies at 89 2011-10-30T23:41:58Z Nichols was faithful to Albee’s text; all but a few words in the movie were straight from the play. The Sublime Mike Nichols 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Albee has long been considered one of the United States' greatest playwrights, alongside such giants as Tennessee Williams and Eugene O'Neill. Playwright Edward Albee to receive MacDowell medal 2011-04-12T22:56:56Z The awful and the absurd are constants in Albee's career, from the excruciating battles of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? to the talking lizards in Seascape. The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? 2010-04-26T21:00:00Z “They looked enough alike, and they were such good actors,” Mr. Albee said. But Can Their Moms Tell Them Apart? 2010-09-19T04:36:00Z Then there were two plays that started previews but never made it to opening night: Martin McDonagh’s “Hangmen” and a revival of Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” Curtains Up! How Broadway Is Coming Back From Its Longest Shutdown. 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z Albee is less about the rhythm of the language and more about the depth of the character. The star of 'At Home at the Zoo' on the risks and growing rewards of being a deaf actor 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Edward Albee, whose death at age 88 on Friday marked the end of his reign as the greatest living American playwright, chiseled his own choice invectives for reviewers over his topsy-turvy career. The genius of Edward Albee and the inner voice that brought difficult truths to the stage 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z An armchair and a park bench are safer places now that Edward Albee’s twinned one-acts, “Homelife” and “The Zoo Story,” are closing. 16 Plays and Musicals to Go to in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Maggie Smith’s mixture of astringency and intelligence goes well with the plays of Edward Albee, of which she has done three. Theater Review: 'Betrayal' With Just Enough Sting 2011-06-28T12:00:06Z Other playwrights who have acted as judges include David Hare and Edward Albee. Winner of Yale playwright competition announced 2011-03-22T17:53:11Z I met Edward Albee when I was in my early 20s. The Tender Side of Edward Albee 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z Edward Albee, the playwright whose Broadway debut — “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” — remains one of the best-known American plays, was mourned by the people who knew him best: those in the world of theater. ‘He Changed the World’: Artists Mourn Edward Albee 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z In 1961 Mr. Albee attacked racism in “The Death of Bessie Smith,” based on the refusal of a white-run Southern hospital to treat the critically injured blues singer. Edward Albee, Pulitzer-winning playwright of modern masterpieces, dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” established Mr. Albee, then 34, as an astringent heir to O’Neill. Edward Albee, Pulitzer-winning playwright of modern masterpieces, dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Appearances since then have included a stinging turn as Stevie, the wronged woman in Edward Albee’s “The Goat” at Rep Stage. Actors Emily Townley and Dawn Ursula talk about ‘The Totalitarians’ and D.C. theater life In 1991, Mr. Albee told the Times, “I suppose I could have gone on writing ‘Son of Virginia Woolf’ forever. Edward Albee, Pulitzer-winning playwright of modern masterpieces, dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z The Edward Albee classic also won the Tony for best revival of a play. Lauper and Kinky Boots sweep Tonys 2013-06-10T04:25:56Z The Play About the Baby Edward Albee’s dark meta-comedy about a young couple, a mysterious older couple and a missing child. L.A. theater openings, Sept. 11-18: 'Teatro Moz' and more 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z The American playwrights Arthur Miller and Edward Albee both prefer to give detailed instructions for the movements and gestures of performers and also for the sounds they should produce: so-called "state" or "speech" directions. 'Now cross the Andes.' In praise of the impossible stage direction 2012-06-12T11:56:16Z Although he never wanted for material comfort, the Albee family was described by the future playwright as wantonly cruel at best. Edward Albee, Pulitzer-winning playwright of modern masterpieces, dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z The estate of Samuel Beckett has been famously restrictive, and the estate of Edward Albee reserves the right to approve creative teams and casts for productions of his plays. Harper Lee’s Estate Sues Over Broadway Version of ‘Mockingbird’ 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z Edward Albee said the reason we live so long is because we never retire. 200 Years of Experience, and Still Learning Onstage 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z And consider the story of a young Edward Albee slipping W. H. Auden a sheaf of poems, and the poet later saying to him, “Have you thought about becoming a playwright?” Five Poets That Yusef Komunyakaa Returns to Again and Again 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z Years of critical brickbats toughened Albee’s already tough hide and taught him to trust only himself. Review: Is Edward Albee ‘At Home at the Zoo’? You Bet He Is. 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z Mr. Albee quit drinking after “The Man Who Had Three Arms” was pronounced his third straight Broadway flop. Edward Albee, Pulitzer-winning playwright of modern masterpieces, dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z I first met Edward Albee when his good friend Irene Worth, knowing how greatly I admired him — venerated him really — took me to his annual Christmas party. The Tender Side of Edward Albee 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z The other half is seeing these luminaries — Plácido Domingo, Edward Albee, Liv Ullmann and six others — light up at the opportunity to help shape careers at so early a stage. | 'Masterclass': An HBO Documentary Looks at the YoungArts Program 2010-04-16T23:40:00Z I was adopted by my father, Reed A. Albee, who worked for his father, Edward Franklin Albee, who started a chain of theatres with B. F. Keith and then sold out to R.K.O. Postscript: Edward Albee, 1928-2016 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z Following Albee script to the letter, this crew acts out with uncommon virtuosity. 'Delicate Balance' teeters slightly but always fascinates 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z After Mr. Albee left home in anger in 1949, he and his mother did not speak to each other again until 1965. Edward Albee, Pulitzer-winning playwright of modern masterpieces, dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z The structure of “Boys” is not unlike that of an earlier scandalous sensation of a play, Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” Review: Jim Parsons and Zachary Quinto Enter Sniping in ‘The Boys in the Band’ 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z For Albee a play wasn’t a representation of life but life itself, an addition dreamed up by a writer with time and talent to turn mental image into creation. The genius of Edward Albee and the inner voice that brought difficult truths to the stage 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z No, this isn’t an Edward Albee play, though that’s an understandable assumption to make. In Four Audio Plays, No Stages but Lots of New Voices 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z “At Home” combines “The Zoo Story,” Albee’s one-act from the late 1950s, with a prequel that he wrote more than four decades later. The star of 'At Home at the Zoo' on the risks and growing rewards of being a deaf actor 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z The great paradigm for later portraits of marriage as a blood sport, including Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” Finding the Sweet, Stinging Salt in Plays of Confinement 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z Albee called the loss of such "an intelligent and perceptive critic ... an especially sad note." Broadway marquees to dim in memory of AP critic 2010-05-24T17:16:00Z Martin Esslin, author of the influential book “The Theatre of the Absurd,” designated Albee an American member of the club that had formed around the Irish playwright. The genius of Edward Albee and the inner voice that brought difficult truths to the stage 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z Those connections are certainly there: Albee's use of two- and three-person scenes; the way the play combines studied intellectualism and primal cries of anguish; the characters' unstinting determination to self-justify; the horrific, violent end. Who is Sylvia? 'Goat' manages to connect to a tricky beast 2011-04-05T13:48:40Z Mr. Albee lived for several decades in a TriBeCa loft filled with African sculptures and contemporary paintings by the likes of Vuillard, Milton Avery and Kandinsky. Edward Albee, Trenchant Playwright Who Laid Bare Modern Life, Dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z On Broadway, she was seen in the original 1963 production of Albee’s “The Ballad of the Sad Cafe.” Alice Drummond, Character Actress, Dies at 88 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z But that was before her West End run almost three years ago in Edward Albee’s “The Lady From Dubuque,” a difficult play brilliantly served by this actress. 2010-01-13T05:52:00Z Edward Albee’s Pulitzer Prize winning drama will officially open on Nov. 20, the Hollywood Reporter reports, though preview performances begin in October. Glenn Close Comes Back to Broadway in A Delicate Balance 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z No one thinks of Albee as a naturalistic writer, but he always insisted that the actions that take place on his stage, no matter how extraordinary, were as real as the refrigerator in your kitchen. The genius of Edward Albee and the inner voice that brought difficult truths to the stage 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z Emily Mann directs the production, which should feature trademark Albee themes like doubling of identity and an intense focus on language, right down to the details of grammar. Week Ahead: Aug. 22 ? 28 2010-08-19T14:57:00Z After Albee left home, he never saw his father again, and he had no real contact with his mother until seventeen years before her death. Postscript: Edward Albee, 1928-2016 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z You quote Edward Albee in the book, that one can be sincere and be much worse than someone that is insincere. What binds Palin and Stewart? 2012-07-23T01:00:00Z As in Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” love that hates loves an audience; it turns adversaries into allies. Nina Arianda and Sam Rockwell Star in ‘Fool for Love’ 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z A half-century in theater brought him major roles in plays by Albee, Strindberg, Turgenev and Noel Coward, and a couple of Tony Awards for his mantel. Robot & Frank: An Endearing Showcase for Langella's Star Turn 2012-08-16T14:29:17Z Tony Taccone, artistic director of Berkeley Repertory Theater, a prominent theater in California, interviewed Mr. Albee in San Francisco a few years ago. ‘He Changed the World’: Artists Mourn Edward Albee 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z She scored one of her greatest triumphs in Albee’s drama “Three Tall Women” and later had another tremendous success in his “The Play About the Baby.” Marian Seldes: Her life and career were a master class 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z Just check out the elegant, savage soiree taking place at the Pershing Square Signature Center, where “Edward Albee’s The Lady From Dubuque” opened on Monday night in a scintillating revival. Theater Review: ?Edward Albee?s The Lady From Dubuque? at End Stage Theater 2012-03-06T03:00:39Z The couple had no children and formally adopted Edward 10 months later, naming him Edward Franklin Albee III after two of his adoptive father’s ancestors. Edward Albee, Trenchant Playwright Who Laid Bare Modern Life, Dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z “But any time David Mamet goes to bat, like any great playwright, he becomes a target — whether he is Eugene O’Neill, or Tennessee Williams, or Edward Albee, or David Mamet, he becomes a target.” Delayed Opening for Mamet's 'China Doll' 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z She was at her best in the rarefied environs of the plays of Edward Albee, a world poised between the upper-middle class and eternity. How Marian Seldes Took the Stage 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z To the public, Mr. Albee, who died on Friday at the age of 88, was known primarily through his dramatic work — some 30 plays written over a career that spanned nearly six decades. ‘He Changed the World’: Artists Mourn Edward Albee 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z “A Delicate Balance,” like so many of Albee’s other plays, is most interested in peeling back the layers of marital and familial relationships, revealing the ugliness underneath: resentment, insecurity, guilt, grief, sexual frustration. Review: Tipping the Scales in ‘A Delicate Balance’ 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z However monstrous that title may be, its phrasing produces a typically mordant Albee joke. Review: Is Edward Albee ‘At Home at the Zoo’? You Bet He Is. 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z Albee’s estate now requires theaters to perform both plays together, under the leaden portmanteau “Edward Albee’s At Home at the Zoo: Homelife & The Zoo Story.” Review: Is Edward Albee ‘At Home at the Zoo’? You Bet He Is. 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z Back in the days of racial segregation, black casts routinely performed the great theater classics -- Shakespeare, Ibsen, Chekov, Miller, Williams, O'Neill and Albee. Joan of Arc, Superstar? Not to the Woman Playing Her 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Albee’s play has long been a favorite of mine, largely for the dark crackle of its dialogue. Critic’s Notebook: Deciding How to Expose Children to Challenging Cultural Fare 2012-10-28T21:36:29Z Her revival of Edward Albee's story of marital strife won the best play revival and earned playwright and actor Tracy Letts his first acting Tony. 'Kinky Boots' struts off with the most Tony Awards 2013-06-10T10:37:10Z Mr. Albee explained himself as a kind of herald, perhaps a modern Cassandra warning the theatergoer of inevitable personal calamity. Edward Albee, Trenchant Playwright Who Laid Bare Modern Life, Dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Albee, 83, has written 30 plays and won three Pulitzer Prizes and three Tony Awards. Playwright Edward Albee to receive MacDowell medal 2011-04-12T22:56:56Z The exception came in 1966, when the ritzy couple were cast against type in Edward Albee's drama of marital angst, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Elizabeth Taylor, legendary actress, dies at 79 2011-03-23T13:57:00Z Apparently, Mr. Albee is still not entirely satisfied with the work. ArtsBeat: Albee’s New Play, ‘Laying an Egg,’ Postponed Again 2013-05-02T19:32:28Z It’s also what Edward Albee began encouraging in me from our first meeting. The Tender Side of Edward Albee 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z I certainly glory in the language of Williams and Albee and Shakespeare, and would not want every other show I attended to consist of verbatim conversations. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: The Rough Beauty of Everyday Speech 2013-01-31T22:05:32Z But the real power of Albee's play, beyond the stinging dialogue and gripping clash of wills, lies in the fact that it is awful and not absurd. The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? 2010-04-26T21:00:00Z In an Albee play, you can’t keep a good quip down, and the bitterer the better. Theater Review: ?Edward Albee?s The Lady From Dubuque? at End Stage Theater 2012-03-06T03:00:39Z It’s sitcom Ionesco crossed with a “Saturday Night Live” parody of Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” Steve Martin's 'Meteor Shower' plunges into the absurd at the Old Globe 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z The scarred, embittered drunk is another stage favourite, and one of the definitive moulds has to be Martha in Albee's , currently being revived at the Sheffield Crucible. My favourite drunk scenes 2011-03-24T10:57:08Z "Three Tall Women": Seldes' relationship with Albee continued with the playwright's comeback drama for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1994. Marian Seldes death: Five notable stage performances 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z In more ways than one, Albee hovers about the action. Review: Glenda Jackson Gets Her Queen Lear Moment in ‘Three Tall Women’ 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z His own path was indistinct for years; in his 20s, Mr. Albee’s longest, happiest job was delivering messages for Western Union, which he liked for the exercise and flexibility. Edward Albee, Pulitzer-winning playwright of modern masterpieces, dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z She’s proved her mettle with the words of Shakespeare, Albee, Pinter, Beckett. A longtime D.C. actress tackles her first musical, and it’s by Sondheim 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z “Albee’s importance can’t be overstated,” said Matthew C. Roudane, a professor of English at Georgia State University and a scholar on playwrights. Edward Albee, Pulitzer-winning playwright of modern masterpieces, dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z “It’s problematic to force Albee to share these plays when he didn’t think they were good enough.” Edward Albee’s Final Wish: Destroy My Unfinished Work 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z A Delicate Balance - for which Albee won a Pulitzer Prize - had its Broadway premiere in 1966. Glenn Close returns to Broadway 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z "Laying an Egg" was initially scheduled to be produced last year by the Signature but was postponed when Albee requested more time. New Edward Albee play a Signature highlight 2013-03-13T14:08:07Z “I know my film is different. But if Edward Albee was Edwina Albee, I wonder if that still would have happened.” 'Having a child is a distraction from your own mortality': Kathryn Hahn and Tamara Jenkins on their IVF film 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z With the major exception of Edward Albee, Broadway dramatists did not much take up Wilder’s surrealistic thread in the next few decades. Five Broadway Revivals Give a Tour of Our Theatrical Past 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z Remember those vicious, bewildering party games played by the hosts in Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” Review: George and Martha Redux in ‘Everyone’s Fine With Virginia Woolf’ 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z And the most recent Rapp work I visited, last year’s dystopian comedy “Dreams of Flying Dreams of Falling,” felt like a turbocharged compilation of every absurdist classic from Ionesco to Albee. Theater Review: Adam Rapp’s ‘Through the Yellow Hour,’ at Rattlestick 2012-09-28T02:00:00Z According to Jonathan Thomas, Mr. Albee’s partner from 1971 until Thomas’s death in 2005, “He just didn’t want to present himself as a drunk.” Edward Albee, Pulitzer-winning playwright of modern masterpieces, dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Albee will become only the third playwright to receive the annual award since it was first handed out in 1960. Playwright Edward Albee to receive MacDowell medal 2011-04-12T22:56:56Z The genius of this play is that Albee charts every stage of intoxication. Playing drunk: Now, what was I shaying? 2011-03-23T21:31:10Z Just consider the hours of prickly pleasure provided by those nasty Macbeths, or Edward Albee’s George and Martha, or the squabbling spouses in Strindberg, Ibsen and O’Neill. Theater Review: ‘Stockholm,’ by Bryony Lavery, Dissects a Marriage 2014-03-13T02:00:01Z Mike Nichols’ film – based on Edward Albee’s play – was built around an overwhelming amount of marital tension. 2016’s pop culture-versaries: The films and albums celebrating milestones this year 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z The sting and snap of Carter's delivery made her a natural for Albee's coruscating wit. The theater world's loss of Myra Carter, Brian Bedford and Alan Rickman resounds 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z Newell, whose staging is emotionally centered and hopelessly direct and needy, loosens Albee up but simultaneously ensures his noose says around his audience's throat. Exploring life's prickly truths 2011-01-24T00:13:06Z Wilder apparently read each carefully, then suggested Albee write plays instead. The Tender Side of Edward Albee 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z Townley: I really love Shaw, Miller, Williams, Albee, and there are some roles out there that have my name on them that I cannot wait to play. Actors Emily Townley and Dawn Ursula talk about ‘The Totalitarians’ and D.C. theater life She’s already on board to co-star in Edward Albee’s “Three Tall Women” on Broadway next year with two-time Oscar winner Glenda Jackson. The secret to Tony Awards nominee Laurie Metcalf's success? Brilliance and a whole lot of hard work 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z Two mighty regional reps, Sheffield's Crucible and Northern Stage, come together for this co-production of Edward Albee's campus drama, less a play and more a bloody emotional car crash in action. This week's new theatre 2011-03-12T00:07:43Z Neither Mr. Albee nor James Houghton, the artistic director of the Signature Theater, responded to email and telephone messages on Thursday. ArtsBeat: Albee’s New Play, ‘Laying an Egg,’ Postponed Again 2013-05-02T18:39:12Z Albee wants two of his friends to destroy any incomplete manuscripts he left behind. Edward Albee’s Final Wish: Destroy My Unfinished Work 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z Theater’s connection to the marketplace is part of its glamour but Albee recognized that it was also one of its traps. The genius of Edward Albee and the inner voice that brought difficult truths to the stage 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z The movie, of course, was "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" -- a scorching drama adapted from Edward Albee's Broadway play. How Elizabeth Taylor silenced the censors 2011-03-30T23:53:15Z She is a six-time Academy Award nominee and was most recently seen on Broadway this year in a revival of “A Delicate Balance” by Edward Albee. Glenn Close to Play Norma Desmond Again in a 'Sunset Boulevard' in London 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z Critics raved about the show and its previously little-known writer, often invoking Samuel Beckett and Edward Albee. Lauded playwright Will Eno will get a major L.A. production at last, thanks to pal Rainn Wilson 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z As for the title, another item of speculation, Mr. Albee explained its origin in an interview in The Paris Review in 1966: Edward Albee, Trenchant Playwright Who Laid Bare Modern Life, Dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z “When I was drinking, I would feel the need to set people straight,” Mr. Albee told Gussow. Edward Albee, Pulitzer-winning playwright of modern masterpieces, dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z His father retired as the owner of Albee Specialties, a knitting factory that was in the Bronx. Something Sweet in the Candy Aisle 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z He’s also the Angel of Death, a figure who will turn out to be a frequent visitor in Mr. Albee’s subsequent plays. Review: ‘Signature Plays’ Triple Bill Reveals Truth in the Mirror’s Lies 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z The store will also sell rare books, such as a first-edition of “Three Tall Women,” signed by Edward Albee, and a first-edition script of “West Side Story.” How Lin-Manuel Miranda and Friends Made an Old Bookstore New 2021-06-06T04:00:00Z That’s especially true for the fourth Broadway revival of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” — and the first since the death of its author, Edward Albee. Is Broadway Stuck on Replay? 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z Sontag once accused Albee of “sensationalism masking as cultural exposé.” Susan Sontag’s Mind Games 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Life thereafter feels, as Albee surely intended, more fragile. Who is Sylvia? 'Goat' manages to connect to a tricky beast 2011-04-05T13:48:40Z Think about it: When was the last time a new opera got under your skin the way an Edward Albee play does? Music Review: ‘Dog Days,’ New Opera, at Peak Performances in Montclair 2012-10-03T20:58:42Z The estate of Albee, who died last year, countered that the role was written specifically for a Caucasian man. Authenticity in casting: From 'colorblind' to 'color conscious,' new rules are anything but black and white 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z But there’s a cheerfulness in the chaos that, curiously, harks back to the days of pre-“Virginia Woolf” absurdism, when the young Albee was still in the thrall of Beckett and Ionesco. Review: George and Martha Redux in ‘Everyone’s Fine With Virginia Woolf’ 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z “Most people want tidy, frivolous stuff,” Mr. Albee told the Los Angeles Times in 2002, “so they can go home and not worry about what they’ve seen.” Edward Albee, Pulitzer-winning playwright of modern masterpieces, dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z The length of his career and the force of his best works earned Mr. Albee a place in the first rank of 20th-century American playwrights, alongside Eugene O’Neill, Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams. Edward Albee, Pulitzer-winning playwright of modern masterpieces, dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z One headmaster recommended Mr. Albee to another school despite the student’s failures, noting the particularly bad match between mother and son. Edward Albee, Pulitzer-winning playwright of modern masterpieces, dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Another recent favorite of mine occurred late in Edward Albee's "Me, Myself & I," which appeared at Playwrights Horizons in August of 2010. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: Making An Entrance 2012-07-05T16:52:58Z In Albee's own succinct précis, the drama "concerns a comfortable family invaded by reality long after they are capable of dealing with the invasion." Lindsay Duncan finds her footing in 'A Delicate Balance' 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z Edward Albee defied the downward trajectory of an aging genius. Spirit of Edward Albee endures in a new staging of 'The Play About the Baby' 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z The play had its 1991 premiere in Vienna but earned Mr. Albee a third Pulitzer after it appeared Off Broadway in 1994. Edward Albee, Trenchant Playwright Who Laid Bare Modern Life, Dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z This fall, Lithgow is set to appear in a Broadway revival of Edward Albee's "A Delicate Balance," co-starring with Glenn Close. John Lithgow, Annette Bening open in 'King Lear' in Central Park 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z In Albee, the intruder symbolises a spirituality that his middle-class victim lacks. Writer's Block 2010-09-28T22:00:00Z Just before the end of Edward Albee's “Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” a cold and brutal dawn rises over New Carthage. At 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' ... Pain, laid bare, and then 'ring, ring' 2010-12-16T23:20:41Z Edward Albee, Ellen Stewart and other theater notables reflect on Ms. Fornés’s work, and clips from her plays are shown along with old photographs and film footage. Review: In ‘The Rest I Make Up,’ a Playwright’s Life as Memories Ebb 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z The film, directed by Mike Nichols, was based on the Edward Albee play of scorching marital relations. Haskell Wexler, Oscar-winning cinematographer of ‘Virginia Woolf,’ dies at 93 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z Get your hands on two tickets to “Three Tall Women,” the Edward Albee play that’s being revived on Broadway. Stepmother’s Day? 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z This is true not only of Shakespeare, but also of linguistically rich latter-day writers like August Wilson, Caryl Churchill, Edward Albee, Suzan-Lori Parks and David Mamet. Turn the Living Room into a Stage: Read Plays Out Loud 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z Mr. Roth bemoaned Mr. Albee’s “ghastly pansy rhetoric and repartee,” wanting a more open play “in which the homosexual hero is presented as a homosexual, and not disguised.” Books of The Times: Christopher Bram?s ?Eminent Outlaws,? on American Gay Writers 2012-02-02T22:57:21Z But her last theater performance came in the West End in a revival of Edward Albee’s “Lady From Dubuque” in 2007. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: Missing Maggie Smith 2011-02-17T18:40:33Z For much of the 1960s, Mr. Albee abandoned the emotional clarity and explosiveness of “Virginia Woolf” for more abstract premises. Edward Albee, Pulitzer-winning playwright of modern masterpieces, dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z The bulk of Mr. Albee’s filial ire was aimed at his mother, who was not above taunting her son for being adopted. Edward Albee, Pulitzer-winning playwright of modern masterpieces, dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Albee has said that when he discovered that he was adopted, he invented an identical twin. Week Ahead: Aug. 22 ? 28 2010-08-19T14:57:00Z They complete Albee’s imaginative leap into difficult souls, which of course means all of us. Review: Glenda Jackson Gets Her Queen Lear Moment in ‘Three Tall Women’ 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z Starring Katharine Hepburn as Agnes, an icy matriarch who is scared of losing her mind, the screen version is word-for-word faithful to Albee's play. 'A Delicate Balance': A look back at the Katharine Hepburn movie version 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z "I think humor is one of the most precious things you can have," she said to Mel Gussow in his biography of the playwright Edward Albee. Elaine Stritch's originality blazed fiercely on Broadway 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z This masterpiece of a play by Edward Albee is now celebrating its 50th anniversary on Broadway with an astonishing production courtesy of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company. The AP picks its Top 10 theater moments of 2012 2012-12-13T13:00:13Z When my film “Otto: or Up With Dead People,” which has at least one “Virginia Woolf” reference in it, opened in New York, somebody took Edward Albee to see it. Bruce LaBruce on 'Virginia Woolf' and Other Influences 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z The Oscar nomination arrived the day Metcalf began rehearsals for the upcoming Broadway revival of Edward Albee’s “Three Tall Women.” Laurie Metcalf has been acting for four decades. She’s finally on the verge of stardom. 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z When I once asked Albee whether he understood German, he said, “I understand that it is a language.” Review: Is Edward Albee ‘At Home at the Zoo’? You Bet He Is. 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z The Traverse, by the way, is previewing Dominic Hill's Scottish premiere of Edward Albee's The Goat Or Who is Sylvia? about a man who falls in love with a goat. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2010-04-16T14:56:00Z But it is the cantankerous body of plays and the daunting, rewarding gallery of roles for which Mr. Albee will be remembered. Edward Albee, Pulitzer-winning playwright of modern masterpieces, dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z American theater lost one of its greatest dramatists with the death of Edward Albee, the triple Pulitzer Prize winning playwright. America mourns heroes, rock icons and sporting legends in 2016 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z I don’t know if this counts since it’s a play adapted as a movie, but I also love Mike Nichols’s film adaptation of Edward Albee’s play “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” Amy Schumer: By the Book 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z Stevie finds out about her husband's affair in Edward Albee's thrilling drama from a letter sent by their old friend Ross. The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? 2010-04-26T21:00:00Z Theatre9/12's new production, Edward Albee's "Everything in the Garden," is being staged at the troupe's new venue, Trinity Parish Church. Tartuffe and Freud part of Taproot's 2012 season 2011-07-07T19:28:05Z Mostly, the reviews roundly concluded that the three plays were not good and went on to worry that Mr. Albee was squandering his talent. The Playwright and a Revival of His ?Lady From Dubuque? 2012-03-03T01:10:55Z Albee was wary of these classifications, seeing them as artistic straitjackets. The genius of Edward Albee and the inner voice that brought difficult truths to the stage 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z If any impression of American life invited the jaundiced eye of Albee — who died last year at 88 — it was the illusion of blissful domesticity. A scintillating ‘Virginia Woolf’ with a scalding Holly Twyford 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z Mr. Albee was born somewhere in Virginia on March 12, 1928. Edward Albee, Trenchant Playwright Who Laid Bare Modern Life, Dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z But then Edward Albee’s similarly iconic and self-destructive household, with its cruelly inventive party games, is perpetually strange. Review | Willy Loman still dreams big in Miller’s ‘Salesman’ at Ford’s 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z At the age of 35 in 1966, Mike Nichols directed his first Hollywood film - an adaptation of the Edward Albee play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. In pictures: Mike Nichols films 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Even so, the play made enough of a splash that Mr. Albee became known as an exemplar of a new, convention-defying strain of playwriting. Edward Albee, Trenchant Playwright Who Laid Bare Modern Life, Dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Her focus has been on mastering Albee's naturally artificial dialogue. Lindsay Duncan finds her footing in 'A Delicate Balance' 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z Not that Jackson, a Tony winner last season for a revival of Edward Albee’s “Three Tall Women,” isn’t an inspired choice for Lear. Review | Glenda Jackson as King Lear was a good idea. Why is everything around her so wrong? 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z And around the corner from 75½ Bedford is the Cherry Lane Theater, in a former brewery on Commerce Street, which over the years became closely associated with gay playwrights like Edward Albee. Greenwich Village, Storied Home of Bohemia and Gay History 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z She also appeared in productions of Albee's "The Play About the Baby," "Tiny Alice," "Counting the Ways" and "Three Tall Women." Tony-winning Broadway great Marian Seldes dies at 86 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z Elie Wiesel, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee, Saul Bellow and other theatrical and literary figures greeted him as a kinsman. Vaclav Havel: An Intertwining of Artist and Politician 2011-12-19T10:10:08Z When I was with Edward Albee, he was very insulting about it. Terrence McNally Cherishes the Light in Art. Until It Goes Out. 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z It is an explosive combination that The Hollywood Reporter said Albee deals with brilliantly. Glenn Close heads all-star cast in revival of 'A Delicate Balance' 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z “Gotta figure that stuff out, man,” he says of Albee’s cryptograms. Rick Foucheux paints a possible stage exit with an intimate ‘King Lear’ 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z We unearthed Albee’s aesthetic by putting his words in our queer mouths and laughing. Postscript: Edward Albee, 1928-2016 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z Unlike Williams and Miller, Albee did not believe in backstories—that the child was, artistically speaking, father to the man—and when his characters “share,” none of it is cozy. Postscript: Edward Albee, 1928-2016 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z That play, like most of Mr. Albee’s output through the 1970s and 1980s, drew hostile reviews. Edward Albee, Pulitzer-winning playwright of modern masterpieces, dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z “His theater is tough, funny and right on target,” Mr. Albee said. Doric Wilson, Playwright and Mainstay of Gay Theater, Dies at 72 2011-05-16T04:23:01Z The exception came in 1966, when they were cast against type in Edward Albee's drama of marital angst, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Obituary: Elizabeth Taylor, of movies and men 2011-03-24T02:49:21Z While Williams and Miller believed their protagonists—and often identified with them—Albee was just as often skeptical if not down right distrustful of what his characters said, and how they said it. Postscript: Edward Albee, 1928-2016 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z The idea of consent takes a decidedly different form in Edward Albee’s “The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?” Adultery With a Difference on the London Stage 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z The previous record at the Golden was set last October by the revival of Edward Albee’s “A Delicate Balance,” which grossed $884,596. 'Skylight' Closes Out Run With Healthy Box Office 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z Because in the world of his creation, a world in which the stage churned with resentment and bubbled with anxiety and simmered in ambiguity, Albee was consummately in control. Edward Albee, the last of the giants 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z “Three Tall Women,” the masterwork that returned Mr. Albee to prominence, had its premiere the same year the Signature was founded — at the English Theater in Vienna, not exactly the epicenter of the English-language theater. James Houghton, a Daring Champion of the American Theater 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z He was on Broadway before he was 15 and in the 1960s appeared there in plays by Edward Albee and John Guare. George Bartenieff, Fixture of Downtown Theater, Dies at 89 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z “He didn’t look like a typical student,” Mr. Albee said. Will This Guy Shut Off the Lights in the Sanders Campaign? 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Leonard, who often catches the sound of Albee’s voice, is very good in the difficult role of a man whose avoidance of trouble has left him without the bruises we call a personality. Review: Is Edward Albee ‘At Home at the Zoo’? You Bet He Is. 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z It not only puts an exclamation point on Ms. Jackson’s long-shelved acting career but also serves as a fitting memorial, which is to say a hilarious and horrifying one, to Albee, who died in 2016. Review: Glenda Jackson Gets Her Queen Lear Moment in ‘Three Tall Women’ 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z What did was Albee’s revenge against a world that said George and Martha, in all their awfulness and vindictiveness, were normal, while we weren’t. Postscript: Edward Albee, 1928-2016 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z As a novice movie helmsman, he directed them in Edward Albee’s scorching marital drama “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” Mike Nichols, ‘The Graduate’ director, dies The tone is like a skewed sitcom, like Edward Albee if he wrote plays when he was three. Transgender Playwrights: ‘We Should Get to Tell Our Own Stories First’ 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z She was the bedridden matriarch sifting through thorny memories in "Three Tall Women," Edward Albee's 1994 Pulitzer Prize winner and the play I consider to be his masterpiece. The theater world's loss of Myra Carter, Brian Bedford and Alan Rickman resounds 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z With “A Delicate Balance,” Mr. Albee resoundingly made good on his “Virginia Woolf” promise. Edward Albee, Pulitzer-winning playwright of modern masterpieces, dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Had I, to paraphrase the words of the late American playwright Edward Albee, succeeded interestingly precisely because I’d failed interestingly first? Why we should learn to embrace failure | Elizabeth Day 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z And multiple customers called Record Mart Times Square and Target at Albee Square in Brooklyn requesting the album, sales associates said. Drake’s ‘Scorpion’ Is the Year’s Biggest Album. But Can You Find It in Stores? 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z No, happiness and marriage have become a potent topic because of her latest project, a return to Broadway this fall in Edward Albee’s “A Delicate Balance.” Glenn Close Returns to Broadway in ‘A Delicate Balance’ 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z By then he was in a relationship with the playwright Edward Albee, whom he had met at a party in 1959. Terrence McNally, Tony-Winning Playwright of Gay Life, Dies at 81 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z Two years later, he appeared in Edward Albee’s “Zoo Story” in its Off Broadway production at the Provincetown Playhouse. George Maharis, TV Heartthrob of ‘Route 66,’ Is Dead at 94 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z That Albee season focused on, perhaps partly for reasons of scale and budget, experimental or lesser-known pieces, like “Marriage Play” and “Counting the Ways” and his early play “The Sandbox.” James Houghton, a Daring Champion of the American Theater 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z Seldes earned five Tony nominations, winning the award her first time out in 1967 for her supporting role in "A Delicate Balance" by the playwright Edward Albee, with whom she had a long association. Tony-winning Broadway great Marian Seldes dies at 86 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z Mr. Albee, who once declared “I despise restful art,” practically went out of his way not to try to top the commercial success of “Who’s Afraid.” Edward Albee, Pulitzer-winning playwright of modern masterpieces, dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Albee's text makes clear that the characters have been drinking heavily before the play begins: the action becomes a vicious slugging match in which the principal couple's marriage is laid to waste. Playing drunk: Now, what was I shaying? 2011-03-23T21:31:10Z The staging tricks enhance the ones that Albee built in, with Miriam Buether’s astonishing set design, at first so pretty and cozy, holding unexpected dimensions of alienation in store. Review: Glenda Jackson Gets Her Queen Lear Moment in ‘Three Tall Women’ 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z In light of recent blowback regarding racial restrictions enforced by the estate of Edward Albee, this was not a good situation for either side. In the Berkshires, Musicals With Ambitions Not Always Realized 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z Albee, who died last week at 88, wrote “The Play About the Baby,” now enjoying a sterling staging at the Road on Magnolia theater in North Hollywood, when he was 70. Spirit of Edward Albee endures in a new staging of 'The Play About the Baby' 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z "Albee peels lid off the upper crust," said The New York Daily News, while the Hollywood Reporter described it as a "blistering production." Glenn Close heads all-star cast in revival of 'A Delicate Balance' 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z Among the other prize recipients: Laurie Metcalf was honored as best featured actress in a play for her role in Edward Albee’s “Three Tall Women.” Tony Awards 2018: ‘The Band’s Visit’ and ‘Harry Potter’ Prevail 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z She has some patience for the young marrieds, but he’s an Albee skeptic. ‘The Wheel’ Review: Songs of Love and Hate 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z In theater, Mr. Pigott-Smith played a wide range of classical and contemporary parts — from Shaw to Albee — but with a special emphasis on Shakespeare. Tim Pigott-Smith, Actor Who Put Prince Charles on the Throne, Dies at 70 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z There are existential echoes of Beckett and Albee in this contemplative work that’s part TED talk, part show and tell. 5 Shows to See in New York When You Only Have an Hour 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z Rajiv Joseph recalls the advice delivered in a class taught by none other than Edward Albee: “Be as explicit with instructions for delivering lines as possible.” You Wrote the Play. Can You Let It Go? 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z The only logical conclusion to draw after I saw Carter in the role was that she performed the part in Albee's imagination. The theater world's loss of Myra Carter, Brian Bedford and Alan Rickman resounds 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z The one truly successful film of this period is Mike Nichols's version of Edward Albee's , where a middle-aged academic couple tear each other apart in a manner reminiscent of Strindberg at his most atrabilious. Elizabeth Taylor remembered by Philip French 2011-03-27T00:08:05Z Early Albee is even harder on a character who willingly sacrifices his animal ferocity for the security and comfort of conventional routine. Deaf West sets out to tame 'Edward Albee's At Home at the Zoo' 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z “He was always an experimental writer, always out there on the edge,” Roudane said, noting that Mr. Albee once called the Broadway audience “such placid cows.” Edward Albee, Pulitzer-winning playwright of modern masterpieces, dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Abbey joked that he was an “obscure writer” and claimed he was often called “Edward Albee” in the East, but in the West his face could have been chiseled on a literary Mount Rushmore. The real Grizzly Man: No one knows brown bears like Vietnam vet, monkey-wrencher, wild man Doug Peacock 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z His experience with “Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo” led him to think twice about Albee’s warning. You Wrote the Play. Can You Let It Go? 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z Edward Albee wrote plays that were as compact as “The Zoo Story” and as prolonged as “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” Oh, the dreaded intermission: Long plays at a time when shorter is sweeter 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z Albee’s mother may have been an excellent horsewoman, but her skills did not extend to mothering. Postscript: Edward Albee, 1928-2016 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z His plays’ explosively fraught alliances anticipated the dangerous domestic war games of writers like Edward Albee and the destructive passions of film noir. Reviews: ‘Mies Julie’ and ‘Dance of Death,’ Love and Madness in Strindberg 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z Having slyly acclimatized the audience to a naturalistic comedy about the frailty of memory, Albee gleefully reshuffles the cards. Review: Glenda Jackson Gets Her Queen Lear Moment in ‘Three Tall Women’ 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z Mr. Albee said he didn’t know in which direction Mr. Weaver would prod Mr. Sanders, if any. Will This Guy Shut Off the Lights in the Sanders Campaign? 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z By happy coincidence, I assume, the Signature’s 1993-94 season, dedicated to Mr. Albee’s work, coincided with the play’s arrival in New York in January 1994, and it went on to win the Pulitzer Prize. James Houghton, a Daring Champion of the American Theater 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z Ionesco, of course, did not lead down an alley so much as open up new artistic vistas explored by writers like Harold Pinter, Caryl Churchill and Edward Albee. Theater Review: Ionesco?s ?Bald Soprano? at City Center - Review 2011-09-27T21:06:39Z His commanding performance as George in the Steppenwolf Theater Company’s revival of Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” will surely come as no surprise to local theatergoers. | 'Who?s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?': Watch It, Martha: This George Is a Stealth Bomb 2010-12-13T03:01:00Z Jakob Holder, executive director of the Edward F. Albee Foundation, confirmed the death but did not cite a cause. Edward Albee, Pulitzer-winning playwright of modern masterpieces, dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z A few of the playwrights the Signature championed in its early years were established and revered: notably Edward Albee and Arthur Miller. James Houghton, a Daring Champion of the American Theater 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z Albee's play remains as emotionally raw and shocking as it was almost 50 years ago, playing with fantasy and reality to dissect a co-dependent relationship in which love and hate are deeply entwined. This week's new theatre 2011-03-12T00:07:43Z Letts might have to get used to those itsy-bitsy tables: He's booked to play George in an open-ended revival of Edward Albee's bruising "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" on Broadway. Playwright Tracy Letts reveals his Midwestern side 2012-10-12T11:53:10Z But it was not as Shakespeare’s ultimate angry old man but as the angry old woman of Edward Albee’s “Three Tall Women,” for which Ms. Jackson won a Tony for Best Actress in a Play. Glenda Jackson and Adam Driver: Performers With a License to Rage 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z Some people feel that way about Albee’s plays. Review: Is Edward Albee ‘At Home at the Zoo’? You Bet He Is. 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z Her next Broadway role was in the replacement cast of Edward Albee’s scabrous portrait of a marriage, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” as Martha, the bitter, boozy wife. Elaine Stritch, Tart-Tongued Broadway Actress and Singer, Is Dead at 89 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z “Dreams of Flying” is a contrived simulacrum — or is it a limp sendup? — of an Albee play. | 'Dreams of Flying Dreams of Falling': ?Dreams of Flying Dreams of Falling? at Classic Stage - Review 2011-10-04T02:01:04Z Her still, dry Albee Hill bottling, with its deep, dark fruit, minerality and austere tannins is a classic. 6 heritage cider brands worth tasting 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z Albee learned cruelty at home—one could call his domestic dramas the living room of cruelty—and he wrote most exquisitely about how cruelty can, for some, make a home. Postscript: Edward Albee, 1928-2016 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z Mr. Albee met Mr. Weaver in the 1980s, when Mr. Weaver was a Boston University student lobbying Senator Leahy on behalf of Soviet Jewry. Will This Guy Shut Off the Lights in the Sanders Campaign? 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z Between now and the Albee play, she'll be working on a new play by Sarah Treem and conducting a few readings. Director Pam MacKinnon scales the Broadway heights 2012-04-13T16:49:09Z Instead, I thought of Edward Albee, for the merciless wit, and Sophocles, for the Oedipal anxiety. Review: In ‘Textplay,’ Stoppard and Beckett Get Snarky, FWIW 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z If “Everyone’s Fine” is partly a rebuke to what male playwrights do to their female characters, it also bubbles with a love of theater at its most brazenly theatrical that Albee would surely recognize. Review: George and Martha Redux in ‘Everyone’s Fine With Virginia Woolf’ 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z Adapted from Edward Albee’s most celebrated Broadway play, it features Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton as miserably marriedspouses, with George Segal and Sandy Dennis as the younger couple who stray into their web. Caught in Family Trees in ‘Where’s Poppa?’ and ‘Papirosen’ 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z But Albee thought it might be more productive to consider the way animals in his plays offer human beings a unique reflection of their condition. The genius of Edward Albee and the inner voice that brought difficult truths to the stage 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z Despite the violence of their words, Albee’s characters do not speak freely; they are always hedging their bets because life is disappointing, and who wants to have less of what they already have? Postscript: Edward Albee, 1928-2016 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z “The play is a kind of exorcism,” Mr. Albee said of “Three Tall Women.” Edward Albee, Pulitzer-winning playwright of modern masterpieces, dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z The best and most troublesome of Albee’s female characters are her. Postscript: Edward Albee, 1928-2016 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z But Mr. Mantello also brought “Three Tall Women” to life by making subtle adjustments in tone, structure and staging that likely had Albee turning over in his grave. Loving and Hating the Broadway Season: Our Critics Could Have Argued All Night 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z But others abandoned their plans, including “Hangmen” and a revival of Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” Tony Awards for shortened Broadway season will go digital 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z Like his contemporary, the songwriter Stephen Sondheim, Mr. Albee has devoted much of his life to the care and feeding of multifaceted words, and his language, too, could be said to sing. Theater Review: ?Edward Albee?s The Lady From Dubuque? at End Stage Theater 2012-03-06T03:00:39Z Edward Albee’s statuesque Pulitzer Prize winner returns to the stage. 13 Plays and Musicals to Go to in NYC This Weekend 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z Sept. 16 Edward Albee, best known for “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf,” and a three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for drama, dies at 88. Who needs a Nobel Prize? Who is Elena Ferrante? And other literary news in 2016. 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Yet there's something intriguing about its puzzling mix of realism and absurdism, which are ultimately reconciled in the dazzling display of Albee's fearless theatricality. 'Delicate Balance' teeters slightly but always fascinates 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Marian Seldes, the venerated stage actress who died Monday at 86, was a singular theatrical presence whose most notable performances were in plays by Edward Albee. Marian Seldes death: Five notable stage performances 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z And Nichols, making his directing debut in an adaptation of Edward Albee's painfully honest play, gets up close and personal for the carnage. Taylor was an outsized presence in a petite frame 2011-03-23T22:55:09Z Begun by one playwright, Giles Cooper, and finished by another, Edward Albee — who adapted the play for American audiences in 1967 — "Everything in the Garden" is very much of its time. 'Everything in the Garden': Theatre 9/12 examines the cost of keeping up 2011-07-28T18:48:05Z Albee continued to work hard even as, inevitably, he began to lose favor with the critics. Postscript: Edward Albee, 1928-2016 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z Mr. Albee’s career began after the death of Eugene O’Neill and after Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams had produced most of their best-known plays. Edward Albee, Trenchant Playwright Who Laid Bare Modern Life, Dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Think Edward Albee Lite — shrewdly amusing, yes. Review: 'God of Carnage' at Seattle Rep is amusing but hollow at its core ? like the characters 2010-10-07T20:49:00Z “At Home at the Zoo” makes “The Zoo Story” seem as though it isn’t the main attraction when in fact it’s one of Albee’s unequivocal masterpieces. Deaf West sets out to tame 'Edward Albee's At Home at the Zoo' 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z Edward Albee did not win for the scalding “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” ?Next to Normal,? Drama Pulitzer Winner, Is in Some Way 2010-04-13T21:11:00Z “Three Tall Women,” which ran for 582 performances off-Broadway, was a triumph that overnight transformed Mr. Albee’s reputation from Broadway has-been to a dean of American playwrights. Edward Albee, Pulitzer-winning playwright of modern masterpieces, dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Some critics and directors interpreted the play as being about four homosexual men, a suggestion that distressed Mr. Albee enough to seek legal remedies to shut down productions of the play with all-male casts. Edward Albee, Trenchant Playwright Who Laid Bare Modern Life, Dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Why seek out another revival of Edward Albee’s “Three Tall Women” when we had a revelatory one, starring Glenda Jackson, so recently? Best Theater of 2022 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z Was it hard to translate Albee into ASL? The star of 'At Home at the Zoo' on the risks and growing rewards of being a deaf actor 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z This infelicitously titled, Absurdist romp suggests Gurney had been reading a lot of Edward Albee, and it makes sense that it was first performed at the Cherry Lane, a Greenwich Village bastion of experimental theater. Review: The Ages of A.R. Gurney in the Wistful ‘Final Follies’ 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z In an interview included on the DVD, Albee said that he originally wanted Ingmar Bergman to direct the movie, but the Swedish auteur wasn't available. 'A Delicate Balance': A look back at the Katharine Hepburn movie version 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z In the 1970s, the Landaus started the American Film Theater, which invited viewers to subscribe to regular screenings of movie versions of works by Eugène Ionesco, Bertolt Brecht, Edward Albee and others. Edie Landau, Film Producer Who Was Ahead of Her Time, Dies at 95 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z Harold Pinter and Jean Genet also experimented with the form, and Edward Albee’s career ignited with “The Zoo Story,” about a fraught encounter between two men on a park bench. Two-Character Plays Are Highlights of Theater Season 2010-05-08T02:40:00Z Has her background in Pinter prepared her for Albee, who similarly refuses to justify dramatic actions along standard realistic lines? Lindsay Duncan finds her footing in 'A Delicate Balance' 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z Hope arrives in the form of dread toward the end of the first act of Edward Albee’s “A Delicate Balance,” which opened on Thursday night in a revival at the Golden Theater. ‘A Delicate Balance’ Revival Stars Lithgow and Close 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Though Mr. Albee will have my hide for saying this, “The Lady From Dubuque” is an allegory. Theater Review: ?Edward Albee?s The Lady From Dubuque? at End Stage Theater 2012-03-06T03:00:39Z I have also heard of actors appearing in Albee plays working from similarly edited texts. 'Now cross the Andes.' In praise of the impossible stage direction 2012-06-12T11:56:16Z Success as Martha, Albee's foul-mouthed harridan, would grant Taylor what she had long craved: credibility as an actress. How Elizabeth Taylor silenced the censors 2011-03-30T23:53:15Z Mr. Albee called this work the closest he ever wrote to a perfect play. Review: ‘Signature Plays’ Triple Bill Reveals Truth in the Mirror’s Lies 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z When asked about his influences, Albee once piquantly paired Sophocles and Noël Coward, and his work can be seen as a unique blend of tragic vision and hyper-articulate wit. The genius of Edward Albee and the inner voice that brought difficult truths to the stage 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z As Albee marriages go, the one in “Homelife,” which opens the bill, is actually rather placid. Review: Is Edward Albee ‘At Home at the Zoo’? You Bet He Is. 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z "A Delicate Balance": Stritch was absent from Broadway for years until the mid-'90s when she made a comeback in revivals of "Show Boat" and this drama by Edward Albee. Elaine Stritch, 89: Five noteworthy performances 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z “If I were to guess, I would think he wants to come up with a plan to land the plane smoothly,” Mr. Albee said. Will This Guy Shut Off the Lights in the Sanders Campaign? 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z Thus the novel, in its glimpses of one woman in different stages of her life, comes to recall Edward Albee’s powerful play “Three Tall Women.” Books of The Times: ‘Mountains of the Moon,’ by I. J. Kay 2012-07-10T13:31:36Z He was placed in an adoption nursery in New York, where he soon was adopted by a childless couple, Reed Albee and the former Frances Loring Cotter. Edward Albee, Pulitzer-winning playwright of modern masterpieces, dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z As Edward Albee once commented about his playwriting, “There’s no such thing as a one-act play. All my plays are full-length.” 'Beckett 5' at the Odyssey: five plays, two hours, one sinister ending 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z The instruction — included in a will Albee filed on Long Island, where he lived and died — is unusual but not unprecedented. Edward Albee’s Final Wish: Destroy My Unfinished Work 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z Next to them, Edward Albee’s characters are children in a playground. Why music from 1594 still moves us in 2016: The deep meaning of 'Tears of St. Peter' 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z Shows that were to open this spring have abandoned their plans, including “Hangmen” and a revival of Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” Broadway shutdown due to virus extended again until January 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z Rather than playing a theatrical stereotype of a drunk, Stritch dug deep into Albee's drama and gave us a woman who stared into her drink when talking about her bad luck with men. Elaine Stritch's originality blazed fiercely on Broadway 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z She had distinguished herself on Broadway in Edward Albee’s sardonic “American Dream,” in which she played Mommy, the cartoonishly overwhelming wife of a spineless husband, and in Samuel Beckett’s bitterly comic “Happy Days.” Sada Thompson, Actress Known for Maternal Roles, Dies at 83 2011-05-06T04:38:16Z Asked on CBS what Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf was about, Albee replied, "It's about two and half hours, three hours." 'Broadway is junk' 2013-01-28T12:52:30Z Glenn Close, who has won three Tonys, stood a good chance for her role as the anxious Agnes in the revival of Edward Albee's “A Delicate Balance.” Tony nominations 2015: Seven snubs and surprises 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z She is bravely attempting to contextualize 21st-century horrors within the sort of existential framework in which Thornton Wilder and Edward Albee specialized. Review: ‘This Flat Earth’ Traces Childhood Fears No Parent Can Allay 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z How could a playwright not be excited about Edward Albee on Broadway? Picks From the Times 100: Sarah Ruhl 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z The play, Mr. Albee once said, was about “the ways we get through life” and spoke to “living life without illusions.” Edward Albee, Pulitzer-winning playwright of modern masterpieces, dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z In a 2010 book, “Albee in Performance,” the playwright is quoted expressing concern about the casting of black actresses in the role of Martha, who is the daughter of the college’s president, in “Virginia Woolf.” A Black Actor in ‘Virginia Woolf’? Not Happening, Albee Estate Says 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z Walter Kerr, writing in The New York Herald Tribune, called it an “infertile cross between Sartre’s ‘No Exit,’ Albee’s ‘Tiny Alice,’ Wagner’s ‘Gotterdammerung’ and the most portentous high school pageant you ever saw.” Terrence McNally, Tony-Winning Playwright of Gay Life, Dies at 81 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z Originally staged on Broadway in 1980, “The Lady From Dubuque” is one of those midcareer Albee plays that got little love from critics, who found it posturing, pretentious and baffling. Theater Review: ?Edward Albee?s The Lady From Dubuque? at End Stage Theater 2012-03-06T03:00:39Z For this edited conversation, Kotsur discussed Albee, acting and ASL in a recent phone interview during which he used an interpreter. The star of 'At Home at the Zoo' on the risks and growing rewards of being a deaf actor 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Jesse is unnerved by the Edward Albee play that, had he ever paid attention in English class, he would have known he had walked into. Breaking Bad Watch: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? 2012-08-20T12:00:18Z Mr. Albee wrote poems and stories from an early age, and he was taken to the theater because of the family business. Edward Albee, Pulitzer-winning playwright of modern masterpieces, dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z But an Albee play starring Brian Murray, whose baritone voice has a seemingly limitless flexibility, has even more urgency and pleasure. Week Ahead: Aug. 22 ? 28 2010-08-19T14:57:00Z Eliot sides with Mr. Albee in making the point that our denial of ourselves crushes us more than it protects us. Theater Review | 'The Cocktail Party': Shaken and Stirred at a T. S. Eliot Comedy 2010-03-19T22:09:00Z Mr. Albee’s career did not really begin until 1958, when he dashed off “The Zoo Story” over three weeks “as a 30th birthday present to myself.” Edward Albee, Pulitzer-winning playwright of modern masterpieces, dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Ms. Seldes had a long and fruitful professional relationship with Albee, the celebrated American playwright and three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for drama. Marian Seldes, celebrated stage actress and interpreter of Albee, dies at 86 It’s no Albee play, but watching people you’re rooting for go after something they want taps into emotions universal enough for even the most jaded theater kid. On boys and balls: How I learned to stop hating sports 2014-05-12T23:00:00Z Almost from the moment he broke through with “Zoo Story,” Mr. Albee was a mentor and teacher of new playwrights. Edward Albee, Pulitzer-winning playwright of modern masterpieces, dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z This production is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the landmark play's arrival on Broadway, and Albee himself stopped by to check out the actors before the team came to New York. Playwright Tracy Letts reveals his Midwestern side 2012-10-12T11:53:10Z Only O’Neill won more Pulitzer Prizes — four to Mr. Albee’s three, awarded for the plays “A Delicate Balance,” “Seascape” and “Three Tall Women.” Edward Albee, Pulitzer-winning playwright of modern masterpieces, dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Pinter, Albee, Coward, Strindberg and Shakespeare were all summoned to describe a work in which dialogue came in shades of purple. The Week Ahead: Aug. 26 — Sept. 1 2012-08-26T07:00:06Z Set designer Misha Kachman devises an entirely realistic set for a play dabbling in surreality; it recalls the physical design for another suburban play intermingled with mystery, Edward Albee’s “A Delicate Balance.” Pulitzer Prize-winning 'Fairview' at Woolly: Both serious and a hoot - The Washington Post 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z Edward Albee, the celebrated playwright who died last fall, left a similar request in his will, though it’s still unclear whether that directive will be honored. Terry Pratchett’s Unpublished Work Crushed by Steamroller 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z Their most fraught marital battles were as intense and mesmerizing as any by Edward Albee or Tennessee Williams. The TV Watch: A Complicated Actor Who Made a Complicated Mob Boss Indelible 2013-06-20T23:08:03Z Seldes earned five Tony nominations, winning for her supporting role in "A Delicate Balance" by the playwright Edward Albee, with whom she had a long association. Tony-winning Broadway great Marian Seldes dies at 86 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z Even if you have no knowledge of Mr. Albee’s later, illustrious career, you’ll still find much to savor and shiver over in this allegory of pushing the elderly into the arms of death. Review: ‘Signature Plays’ Triple Bill Reveals Truth in the Mirror’s Lies 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z "Edward Albee was chosen for a clear and obvious reason: he is a towering presence in American theater," Andre Bishop, chairman of this year's MacDowell medalist selection committee, said in a statement. Playwright Edward Albee to receive MacDowell medal 2011-04-12T22:56:56Z In return, Mr. Albee often made bitter comments about being “bought”; babies and their neglect would be a recurring theme in many of his works. Edward Albee, Pulitzer-winning playwright of modern masterpieces, dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z She was reluctant to talk much about her role as a tyrannical old woman, modeled on Albee’s mother, in “Three Tall Women.” Glenda Jackson on Quitting Parliament, Playing Lear and Returning to Broadway 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z It’s as if, when he left home, Albee wanted to be a different person—a person who would not describe his past as the past was attached to other people. Postscript: Edward Albee, 1928-2016 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z But even more I thought of Edward Albee and the way his plays have tilled the cultural soil for a wider acceptance of the dreamlike reality of this living art form. The genius of Edward Albee and the inner voice that brought difficult truths to the stage 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman,” published by Viking Press, was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection; Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” made good money in hardcover and paperback for Atheneum. The Story of the Lehman Brothers, from Bavaria to Alabama, and From the Heights to the Crash 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z She went on to appear in a range of dramatic productions, notably replacing Uta Hagen in the early 1960s as the shrewish Martha in Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” Elaine Stritch, vivid stage and screen personality, dies at 89 Remember, “It’s not just the kids going back to school, it’s the entire family,” says Suzanne Albee, owner of Bee Organized Seattle. Before kids head back to school, it's important to begin routine organization | Produced by Seattle Times Marketing 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z She denied, when we met for what turned into a disastrous tea when she was starring in the 2018 Broadway revival of Edward Albee’s “Three Tall Women,” that acting was her true calling. Appreciation: Glenda Jackson, formidable English talent who helped change contemporary acting's tone 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z Two years later, she won a Tony Award on Broadway in a revival of Edward Albee's Three Tall Women. Glenda Jackson obituary: 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z As a teenager, few works hit me like Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” Things fall apart between a married couple and a best friend in ‘The Three of Us’ 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z Excellent notices for his work in Edward Albee’s play “Zoo Story,” and in appearances on the television drama “Naked City,” attracted attention. George Maharis, star of TV’s ‘Route 66’ in the 1960s, dies at 94 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z “Consider assigning a family member to be in charge of the command center updates,” Albee says. Before kids head back to school, it's important to begin routine organization | Produced by Seattle Times Marketing 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z She said the intensity of performing in Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” left her emotionally drained and in need of a break nine months after its debut in 1962. Melinda Dillon, actress who played crisis and comedy, dies at 83 2023-02-04T05:00:00Z In just a matter of weeks, she landed one of four parts in the Broadway debut of Edward Albee’s play “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” Melinda Dillon, 2-Time Oscar Nominee, Is Dead at 83 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z It’s not every day you get to see a production of an Edward Albee play that you’ve never read or seen before. Commentary: The case of a mysterious Edward Albee play that has resurfaced in L.A. 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z When she returned to America, she used a draft of it to apply to Edward Albee’s playwriting workshop at New York’s Circle in the Square Theater and was accepted. At 91, Adrienne Kennedy Is Finally on Broadway. What Took So Long? 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z “You want to create an atmosphere that they want to be in,” Albee says. Before kids head back to school, it's important to begin routine organization | Produced by Seattle Times Marketing 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z Silvers and Epstein often behaved like a married couple in an Edward Albee play: “They flung galleys, they slammed books, but nothing was printed unless they had both agreed to it in the end.” Review | Darryl Pinckney’s new book is a dishy tale of literary Manhattan 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z I was struck by the fact that the trial began as Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” opened at the Geffen. Column: Will the Depp/Heard hell trial never end? 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z The piece isn’t included in the three-volume edition of Albee’s collected plays. Commentary: The case of a mysterious Edward Albee play that has resurfaced in L.A. 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z Two years later, Albee produced the first staging of “Funnyhouse” himself at a small theater downtown. At 91, Adrienne Kennedy Is Finally on Broadway. What Took So Long? 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z When shopping your school’s supply list, don’t forget about lunchboxes, water bottles, reusable pouches and freezer blocks, says Albee. Before kids head back to school, it's important to begin routine organization | Produced by Seattle Times Marketing 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z And the character of Martha, whom Albee described as “ample,” is usually played as blowzy. Review: An oddly cast Martha and George expose fragility in Edward Albee’s shatterproof play 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z Albee, she says, is among her very favorite playwrights. Calista Flockhart on playing a storied role in Edward Albee's theatrical battle of wits 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z And until Pacific Resident Theatre’s “Albee/Beckett” bill, I can’t remember hearing anything about it. Commentary: The case of a mysterious Edward Albee play that has resurfaced in L.A. 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z With Albee’s imprimatur, she became an immediate sensation. At 91, Adrienne Kennedy Is Finally on Broadway. What Took So Long? 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z Albee also recommends creating a lunch packing zone in your kitchen. Before kids head back to school, it's important to begin routine organization | Produced by Seattle Times Marketing 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z A feeling of pantomime occasionally haunts this staging of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” — as though the performers were trying on Albee’s classic for a lark. Review: An oddly cast Martha and George expose fragility in Edward Albee’s shatterproof play 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z Flockhart is also impressed with the precision of Albee’s text — the ellipses, the exclamation points, the capital letters, the detailed stage directions. Calista Flockhart on playing a storied role in Edward Albee's theatrical battle of wits 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z Albee, of course, was one of the masters of the short form. Commentary: The case of a mysterious Edward Albee play that has resurfaced in L.A. 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z Marina Albee, owner of the Cafe Botanika vegetarian restaurant in St. Petersburg’s historic city center, has already heard from her fruit and vegetable supplier that prices will be going up 10% to 50%. Russia built an economy like a fortress but the pain is real 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z I’ve been called upon to write post-mortem appreciations of Arthur Miller, August Wilson and Edward Albee — and only their legacies come close. How Stephen Sondheim changed theater forever — one musical masterpiece at a time 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z But this being an Albee play, the death will be an abstract and symbolic one. Review: An oddly cast Martha and George expose fragility in Edward Albee’s shatterproof play 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z He proved that “Three Tall Women,” Edward Albee’s off-Broadway Pulitzer Prize winner, wasn’t too downtown to work uptown, especially with Glenda Jackson and Laurie Metcalf on the marquee. Commentary: Is Scott Rudin’s apology enough? A new era demands more 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z The play offers a snapshot of Albee, who died in 2016, as a rising young playwright, a man of impeccable manners who is nonetheless a determined revolutionary, hellbent on toppling the moribund theater establishment. Commentary: The case of a mysterious Edward Albee play that has resurfaced in L.A. 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z “We’re waiting for the tsunami to hit — the tsunami being the price increases for everything we purchase,” Albee said. Russia built an economy like a fortress but the pain is real 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z The New Yorker starred alongside Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in the 1966 film adaptation of Edward Albee's play. George Segal: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? actor dies aged 87 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z Albee divides “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” into three acts, the last of which is called “The Exorcism.” Review: An oddly cast Martha and George expose fragility in Edward Albee’s shatterproof play 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z Leahy “takes real care of his health,” said his former chief of staff Luke Albee. At 80, Vermont’s Sen. Leahy ready to run impeachment trial 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z If Yam is obviously Albee and “Dilemma, Dereliction and Death” a wry substitute for “The Zoo Story,” who is Fam? Commentary: The case of a mysterious Edward Albee play that has resurfaced in L.A. 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z After surviving two years without tourists because of the COVID-19 pandemic, “it takes a lot to faze us,” Albee added. Russia built an economy like a fortress but the pain is real 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z Segal was nominated for best supporting actor by the Academy for his portrayal of Nick, in the celebrated Mike Nichols-directed adaptation of Edward Albee's dark comedy-drama. George Segal: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? actor dies aged 87 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z For Albee, the truth, even at its most painful, is better than an anaesthetizing lie. Review: An oddly cast Martha and George expose fragility in Edward Albee’s shatterproof play 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z Albee predicted that the senator would be able to handle the job, adding, “He is 80 years old. I’m sure it will be a challenge. And if he’s not up to it, he’d say something.” At 80, Vermont’s Sen. Leahy ready to run impeachment trial 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z Hoping for feedback, Albee had sent Inge a copy of “The Zoo Story” but received only a courteously noncommittal reply. Commentary: The case of a mysterious Edward Albee play that has resurfaced in L.A. 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z Bone, Munson’s biographer, suggests this was the show’s producer, Edward Franklin Albee. Perspective | Audrey Munson made the leap from sculptor’s clay to director’s film 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z But others abandoned their plans, including "Hangmen" and a revival of Edward Albee’s "Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" 'Mean Girls' musical won't reopen on Broadway after coronavirus shutdown 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z One day I fielded a call from Edward Albee. ‘It Was My First Day Going to Work After Moving to Midwood’ 2020-12-13T05:00:00Z “He now knows 80 million Americans care deeply about his health,” Albee joked, referring to the votes that carried fellow Biden to his November defeat of Trump. At 80, Vermont’s Sen. Leahy ready to run impeachment trial 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z No one seems to be safe from Yam’s fanatical fury, which Albee sends up, parodying the militant excesses of the new wave he was helping to lead. Commentary: The case of a mysterious Edward Albee play that has resurfaced in L.A. 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z It is instructive in this context to realize the lingering relevance of Edward Albee's 1962 play "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" The U.S. and the coddling of Donald Trump 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z To read it, Mantello says, like Albee’s “Virginia Woolf,” a lacerating depiction of a 1950s marriage that no one considers an indictment of intimate relationships in general. Column: For director Joe Mantello, 'The Boys in the Band' is a 'scar' Trump's SCOTUS could reopen 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z It runs to just 117 pages, a brevity that is underlined on the page, where DeLillo’s text occasionally resembles the pages of a late play by, say, Edward Albee. Don DeLillo: 'I wondered what would happen if power failed everywhere' 2020-10-18T04:00:00Z “Luxury vinyl is often the answer for laundry rooms, offices and kitchens,” Albee says. Add comfort and beauty to your home with new floors | Produced by Seattle Times Marketing 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z Albee caricatures the foppishly professorial Fam as sniveling, ingratiating and insincere. Commentary: The case of a mysterious Edward Albee play that has resurfaced in L.A. 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z Albee substituted the words "Big Bad Wolf" with the name of the renowned English author Virginia Woolf. The U.S. and the coddling of Donald Trump 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z She continued her work on the stage, including memorable turns in Bertolt Brecht’s “Mother Courage and Her Children,” Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” and Stephen Sondheim’s “Follies.” Diana Rigg, acclaimed actress known as ‘sexiest TV star of all time,’ dies at 82 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z Already some shows scheduled to open this spring have abandoned plans of ever returning, including “Hangmen” and a revival of Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” BET network plans starry show as Broadway extends shutdown 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z “The new thing is carpeting with patterns and textures,” Albee says. Add comfort and beauty to your home with new floors | Produced by Seattle Times Marketing 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z But Albee doesn’t let Yam off the hook, either. Commentary: The case of a mysterious Edward Albee play that has resurfaced in L.A. 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z While still a student at Columbia University, McNally met playwright Edward Albee and a tempestuous romantic relationship began. Appreciation: How Terrence McNally used laughter to lift us past loneliness and loss 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z A revival of Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” will not reopen when Broadway resumes performances, a second play to call it quits as the theater world grapples with the fallout over the coronavirus. Fashion designer Christian Siriano offers to sew face masks 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z Edward Albee’s Tony-winning dark comedy about a middle-aged married couple’s bitterly dysfunctional relationship. Theater in L.A. this week: 'Never Not Once,' 'Fun Home' and more 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z Mid-career, as the trajectories of Edward Albee and countless other original dramatists illustrate, isn’t the easiest place for a playwright to be. Playwright Sarah Ruhl is back, breathing more life into 'Eurydice' for L.A. Opera 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z Inge and Albee, the culminating names on this list, are preceded by ironic shrugs — a dead giveaway. Commentary: The case of a mysterious Edward Albee play that has resurfaced in L.A. 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z McNally’s early plays, which bear some of Albee’s influence, are more experimental than his mature work. Appreciation: How Terrence McNally used laughter to lift us past loneliness and loss 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z Wendy Albee, founder of Albee Interior Design, likes to paint stripes — vertical or horizontal — to add an architectural element to a room. Find decorating inspiration in the latest Northwest styles | Produced by Advertising Publications 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Written by the artist’s friend Edward Albee, the two-character play focuses primarily on another one of Nevelson’s creative achievements: the myth-infused and sometimes contradictory stories she told about herself. ‘Occupant’ at Theater J celebrates sculptor Louise Nevelson and her art — without actually using any of it 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Mr. Bukovsky’s plight attracted the attention and condemnation of intellectual figures including Arthur Miller, Edward Albee and Vladimir Nabokov, as well as Amnesty International and members of the U.S. Vladimir Bukovsky, Soviet dissenter who revealed abuses of communist system, dies at 76 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z But Albee never wrote a play in which experience wasn’t transformed into art. Commentary: The case of a mysterious Edward Albee play that has resurfaced in L.A. 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z Author Vicky Ward, in a 2014 book about Harry Macklowe’s quest to own the General Motors building, wrote that the marriage was “a relationship often compared to an Edward Albee play.” Billionaires’ ugly divorce ignites battle over spectacular art trove 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z “Matte finishes are very popular now,” Albee says. Find decorating inspiration in the latest Northwest styles | Produced by Advertising Publications 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z According to Albee, in the Gold Rush days, while the men on the open range would simply find a shrub or pop a squat, prairie women would form elaborate protective circles to shield one another. Women poop. Sometimes at work. Get over it. | Produced by Advertising Publications 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z Crystal Sanchez said she encountered the sheriff’s deputy, identified in the lawsuit only as Deputy Albee, on May 1 when she was protesting the eviction of homeless people from a lot at 5700 Stockton Blvd. Deputy retaliated against activist who protested clearing of homeless encampment, lawsuit claims 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z I asked representatives of the Albee estate why the work was left out of the Overlook Duckworth three-volume collection of plays. Commentary: The case of a mysterious Edward Albee play that has resurfaced in L.A. 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z The skillfully honed dialogue at times leans toward Albee and Beckett, and is attuned to the jagged-edged, give-and-take of fraught conversations between lovers whose differences become more problematic as they approach a future together. Review: Is it right to bring a child into today’s world? ‘Lungs’ wrestles with the question. 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z But he seems equally relieved that he moved away from Albee’s sphere of influence to find his own more accessible style as a dramatist. Review: PBS documentary of playwright Terrence McNally celebrates a master of connection 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z You mostly do new plays, although you mix in occasional modern classics by Arthur Miller, Eugene O'Neill and Edward Albee. Tony nominee Laurie Metcalf on the heartbreak of playing Hillary on Broadway 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z Albee allegedly barred Sanchez from entering the property to help pack up people’s belongings and told her she was “this close to being arrested,” the lawsuit states. Deputy retaliated against activist who protested clearing of homeless encampment, lawsuit claims 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z If Albee felt the work was unfair to Inge, it’s doubtful he would have chosen to stage a revised version of the play in the city where Inge had died just a few years earlier. Commentary: The case of a mysterious Edward Albee play that has resurfaced in L.A. 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z This skepticism coincided with a time in high school when he began to read such plays as Edward Albee’s “The Zoo Story” and Elmer Rice’s expressionist “Adding Machine.” Lucas Hnath Lets Actors Fight It Out Onstage 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z The survey of his relationship history begins with Edward Albee, who lured the aspiring young writer up to his apartment for a nightcap. Review: PBS documentary of playwright Terrence McNally celebrates a master of connection 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z Broadway theatergoers who caught her Tony-winning performance last year in Edward Albee’s “Three Tall Women” will certainly recognize the vituperative dazzle. Review: Glenda Jackson battles through a brazenly busy ‘King Lear’ on Broadway 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z When she arrived, Albee called her by name, handcuffed her and accused her of driving without a valid state driver’s license, the lawsuit states. Deputy retaliated against activist who protested clearing of homeless encampment, lawsuit claims 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z Perhaps Gussow’s biography subsequently changed Albee’s mind, but there’s probably a simpler reason for the play’s fade into obscurity. Commentary: The case of a mysterious Edward Albee play that has resurfaced in L.A. 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z The Tony Award-winning play by Edward Albee was supposed to open on Jan. 10 for eight days at Alpena Civic Theatre. Curtain Closed: Illness cancels play at small-town theater 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z Days after the bill was unveiled, Facebook hired Mr. Warner’s former chief of staff, Luke Albee, to lobby on it. Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z The incident occurred at City Point, an upscale shopping center on Albee Square in Downtown Brooklyn. Fatal shooting when dispute turns violent at Brooklyn store 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Albee then relayed over his radio, “I got one of the protesters,” the lawsuit states. Deputy retaliated against activist who protested clearing of homeless encampment, lawsuit claims 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z Cohn and Albee hope the meals will help Vermont’s aging population stay healthy and cut down on emergency medical visits. Entrepreneurs hope meal program will keep Vermonters healthy 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z And yet, as Edward Albee wrote, “There is no such thing as naturalism in the theatre, merely degrees of stylization.” With “Fairview,” Jackie Sibblies Drury Breaks the Fourth Wall 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z But Ryan said to read it like an Albee play, and I was really astonished at how beautifully crafted the play is. 'Boys in the Band': Joe Mantello and Zachary Quinto on the redemption of a notorious gay play 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z They were sold at Albee Baby, Baby World, Kidsland, Toys R US, Dainty Baby, USA Baby stores and other stores nationwide and at Amazon.com and other websites from July 2016 through August 2017. Recalls this week: strollers, compact utility loaders 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z In addition to the deputy, the lawsuit names the Sheriff’s Department and Sacramento County in their capacity as Albee’s employer. Deputy retaliated against activist who protested clearing of homeless encampment, lawsuit claims 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z Glenda Jackson is up for best actress for her acclaimed performance in Edward Albee’s psychodrama Three Tall Women, which marked the former Labour MP’s return to Broadway after an absence of three decades. British theatre stars storm the nominations for 2018 Tony awards 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z The 81-year-old English actress, making a triumphant return to Broadway in Edward Albee's "Three Tall Women," seemed friendly enough when we exchanged greetings at an Upper East Side café. My disastrous tea with Glenda Jackson 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z Edward Albee’s play, first performed in 1962, depicts an unenviable marriage on an unending night in a quiet college town. Edward Albee’s strong and charismatic women are relevant again 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z "Three Tall Women" was the play that helped rehabilitate Edward Albee's reputation in the 1990s. Essential Arts & Culture: King Tut and 'Angels in America' return, Laura Owens' 356 Mission to close 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z Albee once quipped that his play is about "a woman who you don't like in act one, and who you like a little better in act two." Glenda Jackson steals the show in a thrilling, emotionally affecting 'Three Tall Women' on Broadway 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z Even Albee, who Crowley suspects invested secretly in the original production, once tarred the play as “a highly skillful work that I despised” because it “did serious damage to a burgeoning gay respectability movement.” A Brief History of Gay Theater, in Three Acts 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z Broadway, happily, is getting a version of Jackson's Lear through her portrayal of A, the wealthy despotic widow in Albee's "Three Tall Women." My disastrous tea with Glenda Jackson 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z “Three Tall Women” may be Albee’s most autobiographical work, inspired by Frances Cotter Albee, his narcissistic and domineering adoptive mother, who married into money and had little love for her inconveniently sensitive and gay son. Edward Albee’s strong and charismatic women are relevant again 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Edward Albee wrote the play, which may seem surprising until you learn that he and Nevelson were close friends. Louise Nevelson turns her life into art in the Edward Albee play 'Occupant' 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z The tri costal Sanctuary mentors new plays of younger and new dramatists, The late Edward Albee endorsed the Sanctuary. In Mexico, Not Dead. Not Alive. Just Gone. 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z Among the hundreds of articles she wrote for the magazine were memorable portraits of diamond merchant Harry Winston, fashion designer Coco Chanel, playwright Edward Albee and film stars ranging from Charlie Chaplin to Robin Williams. Lillian Ross, New Yorker journalist who helped create the nonfiction novel, dies at 99 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z Recalling her experience of Albee, who directed her in a 1989 Center Theatre Group production of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" My disastrous tea with Glenda Jackson 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z Albee said the play helped him come to terms with his mother’s failures, even to develop a grudging respect for her: “It’s all there on stage, all the good stuff and the bad stuff.” Edward Albee’s strong and charismatic women are relevant again 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z In Downtown Brooklyn, the DeKalb Market Hall food hall opened recently in the basement of City Point, a retail, entertainment and restaurant project spanning six levels on the former site of the Albee Square Mall. The Food Court Matures Into the Food Hall 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z Her myth is so enduring that Edward Albee wrote a play called “The Death of Bessie Smith”; J.D. A Bessie Smith ‘dream project’ makes its D.C. debut 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z Although well-versed in Beckett, Eugene O’Neill and Edward Albee, Shepard spoke of his career as a playwright as though it were an accident. Appreciation: Sam Shepard embodied, examined American myth 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z Albee wants two friends to destroy any incomplete manuscripts he left behind. A last wish from playwright Edward Albee: Destroy work he left unfinished 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z When Albee wrote the play in 1991, most American producers rejected it. Edward Albee’s strong and charismatic women are relevant again 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z One of our regular customers was the playwright Edward Albee. Delivery for Edward Albee 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z A production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? fell apart after the Edward Albee estate refused to allow the casting of a black actor in a key role. Edward Albee estate denies rights to production over casting of black actor 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z Luke Albee, Mr. Warner’s former chief of staff, said there was perhaps no lawmaker “less psychologically wired for the Senate.” Mark Warner Faces a Stand-and-Deliver Moment in Russian Inquiry 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z Albee is best known for “Virginia Woolf,” a 1962 drama that was adapted into a film starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. A last wish from playwright Edward Albee: Destroy work he left unfinished 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z It seemed risky, not only because women have all the speaking roles, but also because it had been decades since Albee had found commercial success. Edward Albee’s strong and charismatic women are relevant again 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z He relished the day he introduced Edward Albee to William S. Burroughs and then to Gregory Corso. Robert A. Wilson, 94, Whose Bookshop Was Writers’ Sanctuary, Dies 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z “The Edward Albee estate needs to join the 21st century,” he wrote. Edward Albee estate denies rights to production over casting of black actor 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z “He was always looking for doors to open and things to join,” Mr. Albee said. Mark Warner Faces a Stand-and-Deliver Moment in Russian Inquiry 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z The instruction — included in a will Albee filed on Long Island, New York, where he lived and died — is unusual but not unprecedented. A last wish from playwright Edward Albee: Destroy work he left unfinished 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z Over the course of a long career, which ended with his death in 2016, aged 88, Albee portrayed women who ran laps around their men. Edward Albee’s strong and charismatic women are relevant again 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z In a tribute to the recently departed Edward Albee, test your relationship by doing a reading of the “Getting angry, baby, huh?” scene from “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” 101 Rut-Busting Things to Do This Weekend 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z They were sold at Albee Baby, Babies ‘R’ Us, Buy Buy Baby and other stores nationwide and at www.mamasandpapas.com and www.Amazon.com from December 2014 through July 2016. Recalls this week: Fiery phones, bikes, barstools, stollers 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z Edward Albee, the author of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, died last month aged 88. Kathleen Turner: 'Americans really don't want to deal with death' 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z The play was twice scheduled for production at Signature Theater, an Off-Broadway nonprofit in New York, and twice withdrawn by Albee, who said it wasn’t ready. A last wish from playwright Edward Albee: Destroy work he left unfinished 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z “It’s not surprising that some of the best female actors pick Albee plays to act in.” Edward Albee’s strong and charismatic women are relevant again 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Until reading the appreciation by Charles McNulty, I did not know that Albee thought so highly of Samuel Beckett, also one of my favorites in the Theatre of the Absurd. Readers continue to reflect on the Emmys and say goodbye to Curtis Hanson 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z Albee, a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, died aged 88 last week at his home on Long Island, near New York. Imelda Staunton to star in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - BBC News 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z Mr. Albee was the last of a group of legendary playwrights who essentially defined American drama. Tracy Letts: Edward Albee Was an Icon of American Theater 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z It is also unclear whether Albee left any other incomplete manuscripts behind or whether the language in the will could be interpreted to apply to early drafts of his published plays. A last wish from playwright Edward Albee: Destroy work he left unfinished 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z Albee ran away from home as a teenager, looking back only through his art. Edward Albee’s strong and charismatic women are relevant again 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Your appreciation of Albee was greatly appreciated by this reader. Readers continue to reflect on the Emmys and say goodbye to Curtis Hanson 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z In fact Albee was 20 before he left home, after an argument. Edward Albee obituary 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z I thank Mr. Albee on behalf of a grateful public. Tracy Letts: Edward Albee Was an Icon of American Theater 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Yet Albee exercised fierce control over all productions. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a misunderstood masterpiece 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z But the revival of “Three Tall Women”, alongside so many of Albee’s works, is some compensation. Edward Albee’s strong and charismatic women are relevant again 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z TIME’s largely critical review took issue with the characters and plot construction of A Delicate Balance, the play for which Albee won his first Pulitzer Prize. Edward Albee Dies at 88: Read TIME Reviews of the Playwright's Work 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z Aged 18 days, he was handed into the care of Reed and Frances Albee, of Larchmont, New York. Edward Albee obituary 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z He cost $133.30 in 1928 when, at 18 days old, he was purchased from a private New York adoption agency by Reed and Frances Albee. Edward Albee: a career of highs, lows, and yet more highs 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z Albee’s mounting dismay at the British actor’s textual quibbles meant that, by the end of a long afternoon, all hopes of the production had been abandoned. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a misunderstood masterpiece 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z “Albee is one of the few major American male playwrights who really fleshed out female characters in engaging ways,” says Matthew Roudané of Georgia State University. Edward Albee’s strong and charismatic women are relevant again 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Edward Albee, who died Friday at the age of 88, was, arguably America’s greatest living playwright. Edward Albee Dies at 88: Read TIME Reviews of the Playwright's Work 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z A Delicate Balance, described by Kenneth Tynan as “an exquisite fandango of despair”, saw Albee return to the familiar territory of his adoptive parents’ life style. Edward Albee obituary 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z The dramatist’s friends saw it as significant that, after Thomas’s death in 2005, Albee soon retired from theatre. Edward Albee: a career of highs, lows, and yet more highs 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z Albee was a deeply political writer who once told me he liked plays to be “useful, not merely decorative”. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a misunderstood masterpiece 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z “Everyone wants to have a go at Martha,” says Elizabeth McCann, who produced many of Albee’s later works in New York. Edward Albee’s strong and charismatic women are relevant again 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z “Albee‘s language is whiplash strong and leaves welts. Edward Albee Dies at 88: Read TIME Reviews of the Playwright's Work 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z Mother and son may never have reached rapprochement, let alone anything approaching love, but Frankie was as much a muse for Albee as she was a monster. Edward Albee obituary 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z A cultural risk that Albee failed to escape was being best known for a work that was not his best. Edward Albee: a career of highs, lows, and yet more highs 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z Edward Albee occasionally expressed exasperation at being forever identified as the author of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a misunderstood masterpiece 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z Marriage, and the messy arrangements people make to fortify themselves against life’s uncertainties, were subjects Albee returned to again and again. Edward Albee’s strong and charismatic women are relevant again 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Out of the simplest and most familiar material — a woman of 90-plus years coping with the infirmities and confusions of the moment and looking back on a life of gothic excess — Albee fashions a spellbinder. Edward Albee Dies at 88: Read TIME Reviews of the Playwright's Work 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z “The play is more a treasure trove for Albee scholars and biographers than something of universal concern.” Edward Albee obituary 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z But the Edward F Albee Foundation will continue to help numerous artists through difficult periods in their careers. Edward Albee: a career of highs, lows, and yet more highs 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z Albee’s protective attitude to his play stemmed in part, I suspect, from the fact that it is widely misunderstood. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a misunderstood masterpiece 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z At 34, Albee created a female character who belted out her own story. Edward Albee’s strong and charismatic women are relevant again 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Mr. Albee was proclaimed the playwright of his generation after his blistering “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” opened on Broadway in 1962. Virginia Woolf’ playwright Edward Albee dead at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z It also provided Albee with his only major commercial success, and gave the lie to the notion that he was incapable of writing a full-length play. Edward Albee obituary 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z Personal assistant Jackob Holder says Albee died Friday at his home on Long Island. Acclaimed playwright Edward Albee dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Albee’s play embraces not only history and science but even religion in that Nick’s father-in-law was a travelling preacher who managed to reconcile God and Mammon. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a misunderstood masterpiece 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z Albee challenged theatrical convention in masterworks such as Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and A Delicate Balance. Edward Albee, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? playwright, dies aged 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z The play’s sharp-tongued humor and dark themes were the hallmarks of Mr. Albee’s style. Virginia Woolf’ playwright Edward Albee dead at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z The title came from a piece of graffiti that Albee had spotted in a Greenwich village bar some years previously. Edward Albee obituary 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z |
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