The Shows That Reloaded the Canon for the 21st Century
To compile this list of the new millennium’s influential plays and musicals, we turned to industry workers, leaders, and observers to come up with 50 that pushed theatre forward.
All Stories About Edward Albee
Burning Down the Spouse
A new book looks at the marriages of convenience—and backstage inconveniences—behind the filming of ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’
Who’s Afraid of Zachary Quinto?
The actor talks about the new Geffen Playhouse production of Albee’s classic marital scrimmage he’s headlining opposite Calista Flockhart.
Joe Mantello: The Way We Do the Things We Do
As a director, he’s interested in how people act on each other; he also has a visual instinct. Both came in handy for ‘Three Tall Women.’
This Month in Theatre History
From the first theatre history book to the first seasons at the Indiana Repertory Theatre and the Huntington, October was a notable month for theatre.
When a Writer’s Rights Aren’t Right: The ‘Virginia Woolf’ Casting Fight
A lesson for Albee’s estate from Tennessee Willams’s: Classics can survive reinvention. And while we’re reviving, how about more diversity, not less?
Susan Johann: See Something Different
Her iconic black-and-white images of playwrights, collected in a new book, help reveal their subjects’ true selves.
Precision, Truth, a Loving Wink: Fellow Artists Remember Albee
Emily Mann, Bill Pullman, Will Eno, and Gregory Boyd recall a playwright they respected, occasionally feared, and deeply loved.
Albee, the Quotable Mentor
He loved to visit my graduate theatre class, always unannounced, and scatter pearls of wisdom. My students took notes.
Edward Albee’s Gifts: Humor, Persistence, Generosity
He kept returning to his work with more to say and more ways to say it; we keep returning to his work because we can feel the love.
