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Tony Awards 2013: Stage-Movie connection ranges from Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Kinky Boots to Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (photo: Emilia Clarke, Cory Michael Smith in Breakfast at Tiffany’s) [See previous post: "Tony Awards 2013 Nominations: Tom Hanks, Sigourney Weaver Among Potential Contenders."] Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, possibly up for a 2013 Tony Award in the Best Revival of a Play category, was made into an Academy Award-nominated movie in 1966. Mike Nichols directed Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, George Segal, and Sandy Dennis, from a screenplay by Ernest Lehman. Taylor and Dennis won Oscars as, respectively, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress. In this latest Broadway revival of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, the stars are Tracy Letts, Amy Morton, Madison Dirks and Carrie Coon. Peter Masterson’s 1985 film version of Horton Foote’s The Trip to Bountiful, another possible Best Revival nominee, earned Geraldine Page a Best Actress Academy...

Like the bloodstained tooth of a feral hound, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? glistens with primal and terrifying beauty. Arguably one of best plays written, from one of America's greatest playwrights, Edward Albee's masterpiece is given its gruesome due in the Steppenwolf revival currently running at The Booth.

Tracy Letts (author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning August: Osage County) gives a well-paced performance as George, starting with a ridged, almost stilted quality that gradually loosens with the liquor, yet never completely exposing his inner workings from behind the bulwarks of the impenetrable and calculating war machine that is his nature.

His presence is relaxed and controlled, almost too much so for some of the stage combat and bursts of violence, but magnificently seething as he plays with his prey and plots with his predatory intellect. Letts strikes with precision and timing, mulling over his next move when not in action...

Edward Albees Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf opened last night, Saturday, October 13, 2012, at the Booth Theatre 222 West 45th Street, exactly 50 years to the day of the plays original Broadway opening on Saturday, October 13, 1962. Below, BroadwayWorld brings you images from the opening night curtain calls, featuring Carrie Coon, Tracy Letts, Amy Morton, Madison Dirks, director Pam MacKinnon and the legendary playwright himself, Edward Albee...

Three members of the four-person cast of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" are making their Broadway debuts. "It’s totally surreal," says Carrie Coon, who earned rave reviews for her portrayal of Honey in the production when it opened at the Steppenwolf Theatre in 2010 and at Arena Stage in 2011. "I don’t know if I’ll actually believe it until there are people in there." Coon, along with co-stars Madison Dirks and Tracy Letts, are making their Broadway acting debuts in the 50th anniversary revival of the beloved Edward Albee play, which opens Oct. 13 at the Booth Theatre. Dirks, who earned his Equity card on this production, moved to Chicago to pursue theater because that's where his favorite actors studied their craft, and he advises other young actors to do the same. "Break down what do you want to learn, what do you want to become good at, and what...

Steppenwolf Theatre Company’s production of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? — which earned accolades in Chicago and Washington this winter (check out our A review) — will bow on Broadway next year. Its Oct. 13, 2012 opening marks the 50th anniversary of the drama’s first turn on the Great White Way, when Uta Hagen and Arthur Hill hashed it out as Albee’s most famous feuding alcohol-soaked marrieds, Martha and George. (Kathleen Turner and Bill Irwin portrayed the pair in the most recent 2005 revival.) This time around, the original Steppenwolf cast of Tracy Letts and Amy Morton (the writer and star,...

Chicago – Amy Morton says she’s afraid of Virginia Woolf, but she’s actually terrorized violently – and masterfully – by her stage husband, Tracy Letts. Even if you dive into Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre blind to the fact that local playwright and actor Tracy Letts won a Pulitzer Prize for Steppenwolf’s “August: Osage County,” you’d quickly discern in the first act that you’re witnessing a legend.

Play Rating: 4.5/5.0

But while the content of this play is challenging enough, it’s delivered by ensemble members Tracy Letts and co-lead Amy Morton for theatergoers who aren’t faint of heart. The story, which is set inside the living room of a home on the campus of a small New England college, centers around a fanatic love/hate relationship of one married couple (Letts and Morton).

Left to right: Carrie Coon,...