Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? to Play Boston Pre-Broadway

Turner and Irwin will play Martha and George in the 1962 Albee classic; David Harbour and Mireille Enos will play Nick and Honey. Anthony Page, who helmed the current London production of Albee’s The Goat, will direct. The design team for Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? consists of John Lee Beatty (sets), Jane Greenwood (costumes), Brian MacDevitt (lighting), and Mark Bennett (sound). This will be the play’s first Broadway revival since 1976, when the playwright directed a production starring Colleen Dewhurst and Ben Gazzara.

Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? won Albee his first Tony Award but was famously rejected for consideration by the Pulitzer Prize advisory board, one of whose members described it as “a filthy play.” The 1966 film version starred Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton under the direction of Mike Nichols.