David Mamet once described two of New York’s leading drama critics as the syphilis and gonorrhea of the American theater. Edward Albee, whose death at age 88 on Friday marked the end of his reign as ...

(CBS News) Elizabeth Taylor won an Oscar, and Richard Burton was nominated for one, for their performances in the 1966 film, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" So why, when it came to honoring the ...

Albee is talking about "The Goat or, Who Is Sylvia?" which opens tonight at the American Conservatory Theater. The play proved that the author who rocked the American theater with "The Zoo Story" and ...

Edward Albee, the three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? among many others, died Friday at the age of 88 following a short illness, according to his longtime ...

It’s not every day you get to see a production of an Edward Albee play that you’ve never read or seen before. The unprepossessing title is “Fam and Yam,” which sounds like something Samuel Beckett ...

Playwright Edward Albee attends the La Mama Celebrates 51 Gala at Ellen Stewart Theatre on Feb. 27, 2013 in New York City. Edward Albee, who died Friday at the age of 88, was, arguably America’s ...

They are the words with which Edward Albee greeted the world in his first play, “The Zoo Story,” back in 1959. Actually, the words were originally heard in translation, because “The Zoo Story” had its ...

NEW YORK Three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee, who challenged theatrical convention in masterworks such as “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and “A Delicate Balance,” died Friday, ...

Edward Albee, who interrogated contemporary life with plays that exposed the drama and psychology of human relationships, died Friday at 88, his personal assistant Jakob Holder confirmed. Albee’s long ...