“You’re confusing them,” the character called simply Dr. says of the audience during the first act of Me, Myself & I, the new Edward Albee play, which opened at Playwrights Horizons Sunday night. “And a confused audience is not an attentive one, I read somewhere.”
“Oh?” replies Mother, with whom Dr. has shared a bed Read More
How To Live: A Search for Wisdom
From Old People (While They Are Still on This Earth)
By Henry Alford
Twelve, 262 pages, $23.99
The cover of Henry Alford’s margarine-flavored book of old people’s advice starts with the misleading title, How to Live, continues with a picture of a wrinkly pooch, then hits with the Read More
“Good evening, ladies and gentleman,” the interviewer begins genially, indicating a figure now entering dramatically from the wings. “The great American sculptor … Louise Nevelson.”
The audience applauds as if on cue. “Thank you, thank you, thank you,” Nevelson says. She’s alive?! You can’t tell the difference. You’re not meant to. Read More
Two-time Tony-winning playwright Edward Albee will direct two of his early one-act plays at the Cherry Lane Theatre this spring. Mr. Albee’s The American Dream and The Sandbox will be staged at the Off-Broadway theater March 11-April 19 with an official opening March 25. Both productions will feature Tony Award winner Judith Ivey, Drama Desk Read More
Edward Albee’s Peter and Jerry is a wholly successful evening at the Second Stage, a reminder—if any were needed—that Mr. Albee’s soul-sick inmates at the zoo still have the power to disturb us greatly.
Under the assured direction of Pam MacKinnon, and excellently acted by Bill Pullman, Johanna Day and Dallas Roberts, Peter and Read More
Envy, by Kathryn Harrison. Random House, 301
pages, $24.95.
“Can
it be true that all of Will’s patients are consumed by the topic of sex?
Getting it. Not getting it. Getting it, but not enough of it. Getting it but
not It. Coming, not coming, coming too soon, coming too Read More
Envy, by Kathryn Harrison. Random House, 301 pages, $24.95. “Can it be true that all of Will’s patients are consumed by the topic of sex? Getting it. Not getting it. Getting it, but not enough of it. Getting it but not It. Coming, not coming, coming too soon, coming too late. Coming, but only under Read More
It takes two to make a memorable fight, and a heavyweight beating up a lightweight is no contest at all. The Broadway revival of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Edward Albee’s famous drama about a murderously destructive marriage, is a reminder of how good the play still is. But I’m afraid it’s an uneven battle Read More
Another day, another Edward Albee. The Albee productions dominating the marquees these days seem to outnumber even those of the sainted Sondheim. Nonetheless, I was glad to have a chance to see his 1970 All Over at the Roundabout’s Gramercy Theatre. The play (which I hadn’t seen before) followed Mr. Albee’s A Delicate Balance -for Read More
