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Edward Albee

  • Columns

    May 2, 2012

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

    The actress goes from alkie nun to matriarch of the year

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2012

    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 >>

  • Theater

    March 7, 2012

    The Lady From Dubuque: Meet the Intruders

    A rarely revived Albee play mixes mortal cruelty and metaphysics

  • Theater

    November 2, 2011

    Who Is the Greatest Living Playwright?

    We ask theater writers to name their pick

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2011

    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 >>

  • Film

    March 9, 2011

    Revisiting a Queer Cultural Landmark in Making the Boys

    ​ 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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2011

    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:

  • Theater

    December 29, 2010

    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

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2010

    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 >>

  • Voice Choices

    October 6, 2010

    MUNICIPAL CODE

    Will Eno studies small-town life

  • Theater

    September 15, 2010

    Edward Albee's Me, Myself & I Sees Double

    Plus, the return of Another American: Asking and Telling

  • Theater

    August 25, 2010

    Albee on Albee

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

  • Blogs

    August 25, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 18, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2009

    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 >>

  • Theater

    July 8, 2009

    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

  • Blogs

    June 11, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 24, 2008

    Clip Job: Eileen Brennan, Edward Albee and Obies 1960

    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 >>

  • Voice Choices

    August 5, 2008

    END THE SILENCE

    Authors fight for freedom of expression in China

  • Theater

    June 10, 2008

    Three New Plays Struggle With Information

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

  • Voice Choices

    May 6, 2008

    Thursday 5.8

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

  • Voice Choices

    May 6, 2008

    THE WAIT IS OVER

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

  • Theater

    April 1, 2008

    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

  • Theater

    November 13, 2007

    Edward and Will

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

  • Theater

    August 7, 2007

    Unpromised Lands

    Two plays take on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

  • Columns

    November 29, 2005

    NY Mirror

    Two plays take on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

  • Theater

    November 15, 2005

    Theatrical Lizardry

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

  • Specials

    October 18, 2005

    The Birth of the 'Voice': 1955–1965

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

  • NYC Life

    September 6, 2005

    Mark Your Calendar

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

  • Theater

    June 28, 2005

    Jump the Shark

    Summer gets off to a swimming start at Second Stage Uptown

  • NYC Life

    May 10, 2005

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

    Summer gets off to a swimming start at Second Stage Uptown

  • Specials

    May 10, 2005

    Letters

    Summer gets off to a swimming start at Second Stage Uptown

  • Columns

    January 18, 2005

    NY Mirror

    Summer gets off to a swimming start at Second Stage Uptown

  • Theater

    September 14, 2004

    Finley Toons Up

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

  • Theater

    February 24, 2004

    Oedipus Wrecks

    Nicky Silver's comedy childishly smashes fearsome taboos

  • Theater

    May 20, 2003

    The 48th Annual Obie Awards

    All Over—Till Next Year

  • Music

    April 29, 2003

    The Academy's Pulitzer

    Why Jazz and Pop Don't Make the Cut

  • Theater

    January 21, 2003

    Privacy On Parade

    Collapsable Giraffe and the Pleasures of Obfuscation

  • Theater

    July 2, 2002

    Theater

    Collapsable Giraffe and the Pleasures of Obfuscation

  • Theater

    July 2, 2002

    Disclosing Remarks

    Collapsable Giraffe and the Pleasures of Obfuscation

  • Theater

    May 21, 2002

    Edward Albee's Domestic Animals

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

  • Theater

    March 12, 2002

    Animal Husbandry

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

  • NYC Life

    March 5, 2002

    Steal This Book!

    Author Linda Yablonsky Hijacks a Series She Can Call Her Own

  • NYC Life

    March 5, 2002

    Goat of Hope

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

  • Columns

    February 6, 2001

    NY Mirror

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

  • Theater

    January 16, 2001

    The Story About the Director

    Albee! Miller! David Esbjornson Helms Them All.

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