Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is filled with references, from single line-drops to overarching ideas. This list doesn’t cover everything that could be mentioned, but it’s a good start. Watch the show and see if you can notice any more! Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. Albee stated in a Paris Review interview, “Who’s Afraid of […]
The year is 1962, and in the Billy Rose Theatre (now the Nederlander Theatre) on Broadway, Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is about to take the stage for the first time. The 1960s were a tumultuous time, dominated by the Vietnam War, Civil Rights protests, and political unrest. Let’s take a deeper look […]
Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, playing January 7 through March 6 in The Singleton Theatre, examines the human capacity for denial and fantasy through the intense and troubled marriage of a university couple, George and Martha. The play begins as they return from a party hosted by Martha’s father, the president of the […]
As Joanne Ostrow observed in her article, Searching for truth amid life’s illusions, “Imagine the audience’s shock [on October 13] 1962 when Edward Albee’s first full-length play had its Broadway debut…. The devastating language, brutal wit and merciless puncturing of illusions— it was all new onstage.” But what were the events of the day that […]