Edward Albee

Read Up!: Our 5 Favorite Book Events This Week

Edward Albee and Paul Auster The Strand Thursday, 7 p.m., $15-$30 Every time somebody even mentions a play by Samuel Beckett, we become immediately suspicious that they're about to pull some kind of clever existential farce. Such is the whole "gotcha!" nature of postmodernism. But unlike Godot, we t ... More >>

Albee Reveals What He Thinks About The Virginia Woolf? Movie

Edward Albee loves the blisteringly good current Broadway revival of his landmark play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, but I had always heard he didn't care for the 1966 movie version starring Richard Burton and Liz Taylor as the bickering campus marrieds George and Martha. You know, the flick tha ... More >>

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: The Games Albee People Play

Broadway gets a refill of George and Martha

Kathleen Turner on Faith, a Celebrity Crush, and Being Friends With Maggie Smith

The actress goes from alkie nun to matriarch of the year

Kathleen Turner on Faith, a Celebrity Crush, and Being Friends With Maggie Smith

My column this week is a bouncy interview with husky-voiced talent Kathleen Turner, who has a new movie out! It's The Perfect Family, in which she's nominated for Catholic Woman of the Year, though the fact that her daughter is a pregnant lesbian might get in the way of the prize. The film has a g ... More >>

The Lady From Dubuque: Meet the Intruders

A rarely revived Albee play mixes mortal cruelty and metaphysics

Who Is the Greatest Living Playwright?

We ask theater writers to name their pick

Ed Koch Appears in Gay Film!

​ Making The Boys--opening today--is Crayton Robey's documentary peering behind Mart Crowley's legendary 1968 play The Boys in the Band and its impact in bringing the world out of the closet in terms of gay life. I'm one of the film's chattering experts, along with Paul Rudnick, Michael Cunn ... More >>

Revisiting a Queer Cultural Landmark in Making the Boys

Playbills For Bomb Shows: Come And Get 'Em

​I usually only keep a Playbill if the show it represents was so rotten it will become legendary. And that happens a lot, apparently. I just looked through my poignant and/or diverse collection and came up with these Playbills to cherish and vomit from:

Edward Albee, Judith Malina, and the Soul of Off-Broadway

The reopening of the Provincetown Playhouse helps theater (and a critic) look both backward and onward

Eugene McCarthy Gets a Harsh Heckling by Edward Albee

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 28, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 4 The Candidate From Parnassus By Frederic Morton We're in 1971 and Presidential noises are loud in the land, coming from guys good and bad. I'm trying to remember the sounds of a Great Good Guy, hear ... More >>

MUNICIPAL CODE

Will Eno studies small-town life

Edward Albee's Me, Myself & I Sees Double

Plus, the return of Another American: Asking and Telling

Albee on Albee

At 82, he doesn't need reviving, but argues that his plays do

This Week's Voice: Jim Jarmusch and All Tomorrow's Parties, Katy Perry, !!!, and More

Tom Waits wants to glue this man's hair to the wall. Illustration by Diego Tripodi.​In this week's Village Voice, Christopher R. Weingarten sits down with director Jim Jarmusch to talk ATP and the time Tom Waits tried to kill him, Ryan Dombal scales Fame Mountain with Katy Perry, and Andy Beta ... More >>

Clip Job: Who's Afraid of Andrew Sarris? (Maybe Mike Nichols Should Be)

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 28, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 41 Films By Andrew Sarris "WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?" (at the Criterion and Loew's Tower East) has been hailed by some critics as a daring adventure for Jack Warner a dazzling vindication of Elizabe ... More >>

Andrew Sarris Considers Andy Warhol

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. December 9, 1965, Vol. XI, No. 8 Films By Andrew Sarris I have been intrigued in recent months by the sheer number of Voice columnists who have decided to define the proper role of the critic. In each instance, the traditional father ... More >>

From the Archives...The Voice Reviews Edward Albee’s The Zoo Story and Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape, 1960

Our January 20, 1960, take on one of the most famous double bills in modern theater history, the American debuts of two now-classic plays

Clip Job: This Chick has Wilcock Down Cold

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesDecember 19, 1963, Vol. IX, No. 9The Greenwich Village Scholarship (2)The Greenwich Village Scholarship, despite the rather tongue-in-cheek way in which I presented it (November 7), was a serious attempt to show upper Eastside chicks that the Vil ... More >>

Clip Job: Albee Wins an Antoinette Perry

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesMay 2, 1963, Vol. VIII, No. 28Theatre News"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" playwright Edward Albee's first Broadway entry, has six new awards this week to support its reputation. Voted best play of the season by the Drama Critics Circle, "Who's ... More >>

Clip Job: Krim Kneecaps the New Yorker

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesNovember 8, 1962, Vol. VIII, No. 3Who's Afraid of the New Yorker Now?By Seymour KrimThere used to be a time, let me tell the younger generation, when the New Yorker had sting, when its latest short story was discussed all over town, when any self ... More >>

Clip Job: When George and Martha Were a New Couple

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesOctober 18, 1962, Vol. VII, No. 52A New Kind of PlayBy Michael SmithDo not be fooled by appearances. Edward Albee has written a play about truth and illusion, and the evening's number one illusion is that this is a conventional play -- extraordin ... More >>

Clip Job: Obies 1962

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesMay 31, 1962, Vol. VII, No. 32Obies 1962By Jerry TallmerJames Earl Jones, 31, born Tate County, Mississippi, raised by his grandparents on a wilderness farm near Jackson, Michigan, the second of his family and first of his high-school graduating ... More >>

Clip Job: Eileen Brennan, Edward Albee and Obies 1960

END THE SILENCE

Authors fight for freedom of expression in China

Three New Plays Struggle With Information

Albee's Occupant interrogates sculptor Louise Nevelson, while Saved pursues Christianity

Thursday 5.8

THE WAIT IS OVER

After a six-year delay, Edward Albee’s play is back

Three Evenings With Young Playwrights: This Is Our Youth

Next to Albee's early one-acts, new plays by Adam Bock and Itamar Moses look undramatic

Edward and Will

Albee enriches his own youthful work; CSC reanimates one of Shakespeare's

Theatrical Lizardry

Albee's Seascape: Four sublime performers make it more than a simple day at the beach

The Birth of the 'Voice': 1955–1965

From the Beats to Civil Rights, Lenny Bruce to Warhol's Factory . . .

Mark Your Calendar

We narrowed your choices down to the very best of the season so you're not overwhelmed

Jump the Shark

Summer gets off to a swimming start at Second Stage Uptown

Bathed in Golden Light, the 50th Obies Are a Family Affair

Letters

NY Mirror

Finley Toons Up

What George Bush truly deserves: Karen Finley's vision of his sex life with Martha Stewart

Oedipus Wrecks

Nicky Silver's comedy childishly smashes fearsome taboos

The 48th Annual Obie Awards

All Over—Till Next Year

The Academy's Pulitzer

Why Jazz and Pop Don't Make the Cut

Privacy On Parade

Collapsable Giraffe and the Pleasures of Obfuscation

Theater

Disclosing Remarks

Edward Albee's Domestic Animals

After a Flurry of Productions, a Critical Look at an American Master

Animal Husbandry

Goat of Hope

When It Comes to Playwright Edward Albee, It's Feast or Famine

NY Mirror

The Story About the Director

Albee! Miller! David Esbjornson Helms Them All.