Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? closing 3 Mar 2013

Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company's 50th anniversary production of the Broadway premiere of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? will play its final performance on 03 Mar 2013. When the show closes it will have played 17 previews and 159 regular performances.

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? began previews at the Booth Theatre on 27 Sep 2013, and opened on 13 Oct 2013, exactly 50 years to the date after the play's original Broadway opening on 13 Oct 1962.

The play opened to excellent reviews: Still retains the bantam energy and strong bite of its youth. (NY Times); Powerful, revealing and as painful as a fresh wound (NY Daily News); Lost none of its power to keep an audience on edge (NY Post); The chance to see a great play in a great production doesn't come along all that often. Here's your chance. (Back Stage); Entirely engrossing (Variety).

This production of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? originally ran at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company (13 Dec 2010 - 13 Feb 2011) and then transferred to Washington, D.C.'s Arena Stage (25 Feb - 10 Apr 2011).

Directed by Pam MacKinnon, the Broadway revival stars the original Steppenwolf cast Tracy Letts (George), Amy Morton (Martha), Carrie Coon (Honey) and Madison Dirks (Nick).

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: On the campus of a small New England college, George and Martha invite a new professor and his wife home for a nightcap. As the cocktails flow, the young couple finds themselves caught in the crossfire of a savage marital war where the combatants attack the self-deceptions they forged for their own survival. Steppenwolf ensemble members Tracy Letts and Amy Morton face off as one of theatre's most notoriously dysfunctional couples in what many consider to be Albee's masterpiece.

The Broadway production features the original Steppenwolf creative team: Todd Rosenthal (set design), Nan Cibula-Jenkins (costume design), Allen Lee Hughes (light design) and Rob Milburn and Michael Bodeen (sound design).

Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is presented on Broadway by Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel, Susan Quint Gallin and Mary Lu Roffe in association with Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Artistic Director: Martha Lavey and Executive Director, David Hawkanson.

Richards and Frankel previously teamed up with Steppenwolf to present ensemble member Tracy Letts' Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning production of 'August: Osage County' and 'Superior Donuts' on Broadway. They are also producing Steppenwolf's production of the Pulitzer finalist 'Detroit' by Lisa D'Amour, directed by Steppenwolf ensemble member Austin Pendleton, set to open on Broadway this fall.