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Remembering Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright, Edward Albee

Albee in his younger days (PHOTO: UH Photographs Collection)

by David C. Barnett

Groundbreaking American playwright Edward Albee died on Friday at the age of 88.  In tribute, here's a 1996 interview I did with him in conjunction with a Cleveland run of his Pulitzer Prize-winning play, "Three Tall Women".  Albee's dry wit and insight about the human condition are on full display in this wide-ranging conversation that begins with an anecdote about a local production of one of his most famous plays.

David C. Barnett was a senior arts & culture reporter for Ideastream Public Media. He retired in October 2022.