Edward Albee News
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Broadway enters the final weekend of the 2012-2013 season with its worst attendance record in eight years, despite sold-out audiences for Tom Hanks, Bette Midler and a handful of hit musicals.
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The dive that a drunk Alexander Okano took into a shallow pool at Psi Upsilon house, paralyzing him from the chest down, helped spur reforms to Trinity College’s fraternity culture that faculty members applauded.
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One day a year, the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire -- usually a quiet place for artists to work -- becomes a cultural tourist trap.
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It is sad when a playwright capable of such fine things as “The Zoo Story,” “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and “Three Tall Women” drops turkeys like “The Man Who Had Three Arms,” “Tiny Alice” and “The Goat or Who is Sylvia?” to name only three of his most egregious efforts. Now “ Edward Albee’s Me, Myself & I” joins that pitiful list, dragging those excellent actors Elizabeth Ashley and Brian Murray with it.
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There’s an atmospheric decaying wooden set, beautiful lighting, a fine ensemble of actors and a sense of seen-it-before in the new staging of “The Cherry Orchard” at the National Theatre in London.
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The editors and writers for Bloomberg’s Muse arts and culture section chose their favorite moments of 2012. Here they are, led off by Executive Editor Manuela Hoelterhoff:
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Textile designer Jack Lenor Larsen emerged from his house in East Hampton, New York, Saturday night sporting a blue shirt with polka dots and a white cap.
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The humor in “The Lady From Dubuque,” Edward Albee’s mysterious-stranger play, is drenched in acid. So much so that it’s easy to understand why critics dismissed it 22 years ago and audiences followed their advice.
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Commanding new voices and rising young actors competed with revivals for attention in 2012. These were the best of them, on and off Broadway.
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The Soft Pack begins two-night headliner duty at the Bowery Ballroom.
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