City/State: Chicago, IL
Months/Year: December 2, 2010- February 13, 2011
Directed by: Pam Mackinnon
Scenic Design: Todd Rosenthal
Costume Desgin: Nan Cibula-Jenkins
Lighting Design: Allan Lee Hughes
Sound Design: Michael Bodeen, Rob Milburn
The rules of the game are ever changing. The only defense is to get liquored up. Steppenwolf Theatre presents WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINA WOOLF? Pulitzer Prize and Tony-Award winning playwright Edward Albee pours a generous round of marriages on the rocks. By Katy Walsh
ChicagoNow
The profanity, sexual themes and psychological brutality that scandalized Kerr’s sidewalk subjects, as well as many critics and the Pulitzer committee, have been absorbed into the foundation of American drama.
But if Woolf no longer shocks, it can still find ways to surprise, as Albee-approved director MacKinnon’s searing revival proves.
By Kris Vire
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