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Nearly 30 years ago, when Edward Albee was explaining why he’d develop his new play Three Tall Women in Vienna, the great playwright excoriated New York’s commercial stage. Broadway, he said, was not our national theater, it was our national disgrace. Harsh in ’91, absurd beyond measure tonight with the premiere of…

Earle Hyman, a classically trained actor of steady grace, imposing presence and consummate skill, died Friday at the Lillian Booth Actors Home in Englewood, NJ. He was 91. Hyman’s career on and off-Broadway spanned more than six decades and a multiplicity of Shakespearean roles at Joseph Papp’s New York Shakespeare…

A proposed revival of Edward Albee’s landmark 1962 drama Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? has renewed a long-simmering debate about freedom of expression and the frequently fuzzy line between the rights of creative versus interpretive artists. At issue is the Albee estate’s decision to decline a license for the revival…

Glenda Jackson, absent from the Broadway stage since 1988, will lead a revival next spring of the late Edward Albee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Three Tall Women. Producer Scott Rudin announced Thursday evening that the play, which had a celebrated run beginning at the Vineyard Theatre off-Broadway in 1994, will…

Broadway’s August Wilson Theatre was filled Tuesday afternoon with friends, fans and colleagues of Edward Albee, who died September 16 at 88. Onstage to recall the much-laureled author of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and other plays were actors Brian Murray, Rosemary Harris, Maureen Anderman, Jane Alexander, Peter…

Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? playwright Edward Albee will be remembered December 6 beginning at 1 PM at the August Wilson Theatre (245 West 52nd Street), according to a group of Albee's friends and associates who are organizing the memorial. Albee died at age 88 on September 16. A limited number of seats will be…

Broadway mourned the death last week of Edward Albee and will salute the playwright by dimming the marquee lights on Wednesday at 7:45 PM for one minute. Albee’s Broadway legacy is unlike any other, so powerful was his impact on the theater and theatergoers for more than half a century. At the same time, it was a good…

SECOND UPDATE, Saturday night: Tributes to Edward Albee from actors, directors and writers are expected to air Sunday, Sept. 18 on both CBS’ Sunday Morning and NBC’s Today shows. UPDATED with more information throughout. Edward Albee, the Pulitzer-winning playwright behind some of the most important and groundbreaking…

If you can picture Dustin Hoffman’s mother in The Graduate, or Ralph Fiennes’ in Quiz Show, or, in her best known, if least characteristic film role as the treacherous foil to Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin in 9 To 5, you can probably summon Elizabeth Wilson’s face more quickly than her name. A ubiquitous presence in…

A storm rages at the center of the Broadway revival of Edward Albee’s A Delicate Balance. Although camouflaged in the elegant, comfortable mufti of the affluent upper classes, it’s leveling everyone in its wake while leaving the building intact, like a neutron bomb. Its name is John Lithgow. Don’t be fooled by the…

Rosemary Murphy, thrice nominated for Tony Awards and a favorite of writers as disparate as Edward Albee, Horton Foote and Woody Allen, died July 5 at home in New York City. She was 89. The Germany-born actress had a distinguished film career that began in 1957 with That Night and included key supporting roles in…

The 2014 Tony Award for outstanding regional theater will be presented to off-Broadway's game-changing Signature Theatre Company, which recently moved into a new three-stage complex on West 42nd Street. The group is best known for presenting full seasons of work by selected playwrights-in-residence such as Edward Albee…