Open Rehearsal: The Court Theatre Blog
January 5, 2011
Albee on Broadway
Members of the nerd community may already be aware that you can now view twenty years of Charlie Rose interviews online. The official website now hosts six separate interviews with playwright Edward Albee: this is the most recent.
ALBEE: I think any playwright who doesn’t ask lots of questions is wasting your time. That’s why most of Broadway is not worth going to—because there are no questions, just an awful lot of easy answers being given.
CHARLIE ROSE: But is that because there are no plays being put on Broadway like that because nobody wants to go to Broadway to see that?
ALBEE: The audience that goes to Broadway is, I think, being misinformed as to what the nature of theater is.
Three Tall Women did well on Broadway in the 1990’s, though even just fifteen years later it’s difficult to imagine such a challenging play surviving for very long on Broadway today, unless it starred three very expensive celebrity actresses. Albee has had a complicated relationship with Broadway all his life; Broadway has been the gateway for most of his work, and yet he remains its most outspoken critic.
Three Tall Women runs January 12, 2011 through February 13, 2011 at Court Theatre.
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I can’t believe that there are no comments on all this wonderful material that you’re presenting. I especially enjoyed Charlie Rose’s interview of Edward Albee. I look forward to seeing the play and being challenged by its questions.
By Jeanne Foley on January 18, 2011 at 8:58 pm