Edward Albee dies at age 88

[+ WilliamM]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/17/arts/edward-albee-playwright-of-a-desperate-generation-dies-at-88.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=photo-spot-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

 

Sad, despite a long life

[+ WilliamM]

Somehow Broadway seems to come in last in this forum, with the exception of current plays and musical. Mary Martin did not draw much interest, so I am not hopeful about Edwad Albee Old news: Someone did mention Janet Gaynor in connection with Martin. Martin was a tiny person, Gaynor may have been even shorter.

 

 

 

 

 

 

.http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/mary-l-martin-janet-r-gaynor-february-07-1980-picture-id537761280?s=594x594

[BasketBaller]

I mostly post here as a jockish single father, but I love the theatre too, did plays in school as did my sons, whom I take to plays and musicals as often as I can. Albee was a giant.

 

"A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth." --�Edward Albee

[+ nycman]

A wonderful man.

[BasketBaller]

�Did you know that in the 60s, before the passage of the Civil Rights Amendment, Albee refused to allow his plays to be performed at any theatre that had a segregated audience?

[rvwnsd]

I am embarrassed to admit this - I thought he had passed away years ago.