Edward Albee

Two weekkends remain in which to see the Rogue Theatre's edgy and quite wonderful production of Edward Albee's "A Delicate Balance. " I say "edgy' advisedly because, like all of Albee's plays, the audience recognizes something of themselves...

In this article: A Delicate Balance

"At Home at the Zoo" is an update of "The Zoo Story," the one-act play that rocketed Edward Albee to success in 1958. Albee, never quite satisfied with the original, added a first-act prequel just a few years ago, and Theater...

In this article: The Zoo Story, Seattle, and Manhattan

...reaches another milestone. On November 20, 1964, Downstage Theatre opened its Cambridge Terrace doors for the first time with Edward Albee's The Zoo Story starring Peter Bland and Martyn Sanderson. The original Walkabout Cafe building is...

In this article: Birthday cake and The Zoo Story

...opening of Mazda's new 100-seat theatre, The BIG Secret), I must quote humorist Garrison Keillor, who after seeing and disliking Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize winning drama Three Tall Women remarked, "It is a production that after you've been...

In this article: Cyrano de Bergerac, Cyrano, Three Tall Women, Edmond Rostand, Queens, NY, and Jose Ferrer

On November 20, 1964, Downstage Theatre opened its Cambridge Terrace doors for the first time with Edward Albee's The Zoo Story starring Peter Bland and Martyn Sanderson. The original Walkabout Cafe building is long gone and the Company has...

In this article: Birthday cake and The Zoo Story

...for here and now. Family has always been central to great American drama. The best work of Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams and Edward Albee revolves around dysfunctional domestic relationships. Now, Tracy Letts joins the club with AUGUST:...

In this article: Stepping Out, William Shakespeare, and Beenie Man

I want Cherry directing Rayson or the American masters. (I remember the way the quietness of her direction released the hysteria of Edward Albee's The Goat, just as I recall the unfussed classicism with which she did Arthur Miller's All My...

In this article: Neil Armfield, Cate Blanchett, Melbourne, and Melbourne Theatre Company

...dance and opera. He died last November of cancer at the age of 81. A veritable who's-who of arts all-stars - from playwright Edward Albee to revered choreographer Paul Taylor - paid tribute to Barnes during a celebration of his life held at...

In this article: Clive Barnes, Dance Magazine, Cancer, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and Roman Polanski

Adam Hetrick, Playbill.com Adam Hetrick, playbill.com - Fri Oct 30, 7:58 pm ET Theatre luminaries including Hal Prince, Edward Albee, Tyne Daly and Lee Blessing will participate in the Cherry Lane Theatre's Master Class series over...

In this article: Tyne Daly, Emmy Award, and Hal Prince

...Tate as Homme. Photograph: Donald Cooper The safe bourgeois existence that collapses is a standard dramatic form: one that Edward Albee adroitly used in The Zoo Story. But this telescoped Parisian two-hander by Jean-Marie Besset lacks Albee's...

In this article: The Zoo Story and The Caretaker