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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Mar 20, 2005
Closed Sep 4, 2005
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

The much anticipated revival of Edward Albee's modern classic stars Kathleen Turner and Bill Irwin, winner of the 2005 Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Play. A hilarious and caustic look at marriage and relationships, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? blazed its way into theatre history with its groundbreaking debut in 1962, winning Mr. Albee his first Tony® Award. Anthony Page directs.

Summer Performances run as follows:

--Week of June 27-July 3: Tues at 7pm; Wed at 2 & 8pm; Thurs-Fri at 8pm; Sat
at 2 & 8pm.

--Week of July 4-10: Wed at 2 & 8pm; Thurs-Fri at 8pm; Sat at 2 & 8pm; Sun
at 3pm.

--Week of July 11-17: Tues at 7pm; Wed at 2 & 8pm; Thur-Fri at 8pm; Sat at
2pm & 8pm.

--Week of July 18-24: Wed at 2 & 8pm; Thurs-Fri at 8pm; Sat at 2 & 8pm; Sun
at 3pm.

--Week of July 25-31: Tue at 7pm; Wed-Fri at 8pm; Sat at 2 & 8pm; Sun at
3pm.

--Week of August 1-7: Wed at 2 & 8pm; Thurs-Fri at 8pm; Sat at 2 & 8pm; Sun
at 3pm.

--Week of August 8-14: Tues at 7pm; Wed at 2 & 8pm; Thurs-Fri at 8pm; Sat at
2 & 8pm.

--Week of August 15-21: Wed at 2 & 8pm; Thurs-Fri at 8pm; Sat at 2 & 8pm;
Sun at 3pm.

--Week of August 22-28: Tues at 7pm; Wed-Fri at 8pm; Sat at 2 & 8pm; Sun at
3pm.

--Week of August 29-Sept 4: Wed at 2 & 8pm; Thurs-Fri at 8pm; Sat at 2 &
8pm; Sun at 3pm.

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:



Longacre Theatre
220 W 48th St
New York, NY 10036

This charming Broadway theater has a wonderful quality of being huge, but without a barnlike atmosphere. Built in 1913, the theater was used as a radio and television playhouse. Regular theatrical performances started in 1953. The sightlines are e [...] Read More

WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

The word "deglamorized" only begins to describe her: When Kathleen Turner comes through the double-entry doors on John Lee Beatty's smartly cynical notion of a New England faculty house in the new Broadway production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, she appears to be a woman who's long since let herself go. The drab outfit that costume designer Jane Greenwood has found for her (on a K-Mart rack?) doesn't disguise the fact that this woman's waist is a thing of the past. The flats in which she's padding around rob her of physical grace. Her doughy face is set in an expression of weary disdain, almost as if she sniffs impending old age. Her wavy, shoulder-length hair has the bounce that comm[...]


Reviewed by David Finkle on Mar 20, 2005

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