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Edward Albee

Mark and Betsey

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Edward Albee is the master playwright of dysfunctional coupledom. His recent play, The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? portrays the ugly dissolution of a marriage. In a run of The Goat this spring in Kansas City, two married actors, Mark and Betsey Robbins, got to step into Albee’s world of festering half spoken resentments. Sara […]

Albee & Me

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Albee & Me

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

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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