Edward Albee

Laurie Metcalf in “Three Tall Women”

Laurie Metcalf on reviving “Roseanne” and “Three Tall Women”

Culture

The Tony Award winner makes the case for why middle age is the best.

Mark and Betsey

Arts, Culture & Media

Albee & Me

Arts, Culture & Media

Albee & Me

Arts, Culture & Media

Edward Albee on Samuel Beckett<br>Sharon Olds on John Donne<br>Branford Marsalis on Billie Holiday

Arts, Culture & Media
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Who’s Afraid of On the Media?

Arts, Culture & Media

We asked On the Media’s Bob Garfield and Brooke Gladstone to duke it out in this parody of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? from our American Icons episode on Mad Magazine.

Glenn Close: Strong Women Aren’t Evil

Arts, Culture & Media

Over a prolific career, Glenn Close has specialized in portraying powerful female characters that don’t need you to like them.

Modern family takes on new dimension when it comes to structure, gender

Conflict & Justice

Many American families are no longer conforming to the traditional nuclear family. Jennifer Finney Boylan and her family, is just one example. More than ten years ago, Boylan transitioned from male to female and has remained married to her wife Deidre, all while raising two sons.

Tracy Letts: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf

Tracy Letts is one of the most talented people in American theater today. His play August, Osage County, about a southern family thrown into crisis, won the Pulitzer Prize. Letts is also an acclaimed actor starring in the Broadway revival of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Letts plays George, a frustrated history professor […]

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