10 - Albee stages Marriage Play

Summary

For over four decades now, Edward Albee has closely supervised or directed professional productions of nearly all his own plays. Among his many directing credits, he was responsible for the Broadway premieres of The American Dream (1968), Seascape (1975), and The Man Who Had Three Arms (1983), and the Broadway revival of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1976). He also staged the world premieres of Listening (1977) at the Hartford Stage Company, Marriage Play (1987) and Three Tall Women (1991) at the English Theatre in Vienna, and Fragments: A Sit-Around (1993) at the Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati. In addition, he directed the American premieres of Counting the Ways (1977) at the Hartford Stage Company and Marriage Play at the Alley Theatre (1992) and the New York premiere of Finding the Sun (1993) at the Signature Theatre Company. For several seasons, moreover, he served as an associate director at the Tony award-winning Alley Theatre of Houston, where, in addition to staging several of his own plays, he directed Samuel Beckett's Happy Days, Ohio Impromptu, and Krapp's Last Tape. He has also directed plays by other fellow dramatists including Lanford Wilson, Sam Shepard, and David Mamet.