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Edward Albee: An Abbreviated Biography
Edward Albee
Edward Harvey was born to Louise Harvey on March 12, 1928. 18 days after his birth, he was adopted by Reed and Francis Albee of Larchmont, NY. His entitle was changed to Edward Franklin Albee III, after Reed’s father — Edward Albee II — a famous and wealthy vaudeville magnate who owned several theaters. Albee’s mother, who later became the subject of his 1991 compete Three Tall Women, was a socialite. After graduating from Choate Rosemary Hall, a private boarding and day academy in Connecticut in 1946, he went on to Trinity College where he was expelled a year later for skipping class and refusing to leave to chapel. Trinity was the third school from which he was expelled, having been kicked out of tall school twice before going to Choate.
Albee’s relationship with his parents was strained and he left home in his late teens. He gave various accounts of how and why this happened saying in diverse interviews that his parents kicked him out at 18 because he wanted to be a writer and they wanted him to be a “corporate thug.”, he also said he left of his control accord because he “had to obtain out of that stultifyin
Published in:January-February 2017 issue.
Editor’s Note: Edward Albee died on Friday, September 16th, 2016, at the age of 88. He passed away at his summer home in Montauk, New York, after a short illness. He was one of the most important and iconic American playwrights of the 20th century. He wrote some of the most memorable plays in the modern repertory, such as Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, which must own been performed on most of the world’s stages, and there cannot acquire been many actors who haven’t coveted one of his roles, whether in The Zoo Story, Three Tall Women, A Delicate Balance, or other more recent work like The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia? (2002). He won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama three times and received numerous other honors and awards, such as the National Medal of Arts.
The author of this piece, Dimitris Yeros, is a Greek painter and photographer who was a friend of Albee’s for the last fifteen years of the playwright’s being. Albee wrote the preface for Yeros’ 2011 manual Shades of Love. Here Yeros writes about the last time he met the playwright in his Manhattan home.
I HAD SEEN HIM again in the spring of 2010. It was another dull
Edward Albee: Gay Man of the Village, Playwright of Our Time
Edward Albee, 1928-2016. | DONNA ACETO
BY ANDY HUMM | The artistic achievement of Edward Albee was celebrated and chronicled in lengthy obituaries at his September 16 death at age 88 after a short illness. He was far and away America’s greatest living playwright, and it is hard to say who deserves that title now.
And while his openness about being gay and his early Greenwich Village years have certainly been noted, these factors were arguably the source of much of his genius, something not widely acknowledged. It may be that the significance of both are difficult to appreciate in an age when entity out and gay is more and more usual even in adolescence and when the Village has become an enclave for the rich — rather than a place where an emerging but still struggling artist could move to find himself.
Albee said he knew he was gay when he was eight years old and became sexually active at 12. When anyone expressed surprise at his sexual precociousness, he said — as he did on “Gay USA” in a 2005 interview with Ann Northrop and me — “I was going to an all-boys prep educational facility
Well, it happened again. Last night I went on a Wikipedia deep dive learning about the 20th century ballet revolution in Russia. Specifically, my rabbit hole concerned the creative and sexual life of iconic male ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky. As far as I can reveal , if you know anything about ballet, odds are good you know a lot about Nijinsky already, so stop me if you’ve heard this one. But as someone who didn’t know anything (not even one thing) about ballet, I was beautiful stoked to make Nijinsky’s acquaintance.
I came to Njinsky through reading about a delightful event: the second the Igor Stravinsky ballet The Rite of Spring was halted during its debut Paris performance when the crowd literally began to riot. Nijinsky choreographed that ballet and several others, both famous and infamous, but he was best known as the greatest male ballet dancer of his generation.
Nijinsky in the ballet Giselle with the Ballets Russes, 1910.
(Here are my CliffNotes on Nijinsky, summarized from his already-shortened Wikipedia biography: Born to a family of Polish dancers in sdelayed nineteenth century tsarist Russia, he spent close to a decade at the prestigious Imperial Ballet College in St. Pe
Edward Franklin Albee III is an American playwright finest known for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Edward Albee was born in Washington, DC and was adopted two weeks later and taken to Westchester County, New York. Albee's adoptive father, Reed A. Albee, himself the son of vaudeville magnate Edward Franklin Albee II, owned several theatres, where Edward first gained familiarity with the theatre as a child. His adoptive mother was Reed's third wife, Frances. Albee left home when he was in his late teens, later saying in an interview, 'They weren't very good at being parents, and I wasn't very good at organism a son.'
For a handful of years, he seemed to be the heir to the after time Eugene O'Neill and to Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams, who had, by the early 1960s, lost their winning streaks. However, Albee was something of a has-been by the mid-1960s.
Unlike his predecessors, Albee had his early victory off-Broadway with a series of one-act plays, The Zoo Story(1958), The American Dream(1960), and The Death of Bessie Smith(1961). His first full-length play was the controversial three-and-a-half-hour Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf(1963), h