Edward albee

Hilton Als on the playwright Edward Albee, who was celebrated but not fully appreciated for works including “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”

"All art should be useful," Albee said. "If it's merely decorative, it's a waste of time." The Pulitzer-winning playwright of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? died Friday following a short illness.

In celebration of the redesign of Photo Booth, here’s a look back at Richard Avedon’s portraits of writers commissioned by The New Yorker.

Three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee has died in suburban New York City at age 88.

Edward Albee as an angry young man

Edward Albee // "Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve".

Edward Albee, Pulitzer-Winning Playwright, Dead At 88 | Huffington Post

Three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee has died in…

Playwright Edward Albee's collection of African art will come up for sale @Sothebys in late September https://t.co/dmEy9bI0sC

Edward Albee exploded onto the theater scene at the end of the 1950s with plays that foreshadowed the turbulence of the decades to come. Adopted as an infant, he rebelled against his socially prominent adoptive family, and fled to Greenwich Village to pursue a literary career. His 1959 play The Zoo Story and 1960's The Death of Bessie Smith won him an early reputation as a fearless observer of human alienation and the American scene. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf provoked an unprecedented…

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.

Edward Albee, the award-winning playwright who instilled fire-breathing life into George and Martha, the middle-aged couple who made his “Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”

Edward Albee

July 5, 2017 – In today’s roundup: Albee’s will and its complications; becoming “Didionesque”; and more.

Nearly 15 years ago, Dave Eggers’s irony-tinged, confessional writing style made him a literary sensation. Countless projects and publications later, he’s proving that what first defined him is far from what drives him now

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.

The playwright literally couldn't imagine being closeted, in any way.

Is it worthwhile getting a Ph.D. if your only options are A) working as an adjunct or B) leaving academe for some other kind of work? Especially if you've experienced significant financial hardship along the way (and if remaining an adjunct would cause you significant financial hardship), is it worth it to spend time and effort getting the Ph.D. if you cannot, in the end, no matter how talented and smart you are, achieve the career goal you started out with? The Economist says no. Thomas H…

“Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.” ― Edward Albee

The Time Edward Albee Almost Bought My Painting http://lnk.al/4Jgj #artnews