On Monday, December 5th, three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee will be
the featured guest for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & TransgenderCommunity Center's
(208 W. 13th St., between 7th and 8th Avenues) Queer Book Club.
The discussion, which will coincide with the publication of his new work Stretching My Mind, will feature
Albee talking about theater, literature, and the political and cultural
battlegrounds that have defined his career. Joining the conversation, which will begin at 7 PM, will be New
York Times contributor Jesse Green.
Albee is considered by most to be America's
preeminent living playwright "and has been rocking our country's moral,
political, and artistic complacency for almost 50 years," according to press notes. "Beginning with his
debut play, The Zoo Story (1958), and on to his barrier-breaking works
of the 1960s, notably The American Dream (1960), Who's Afraid of
Virgina Woolf? (1963), and the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Delicate Balance
(1966), Albee's provocative, unsparing indictment of the American way of life
earned him early distinction as the dramatist of his generation." Other plays include Tiny Alice, The American Dream, Three Tall Women, The Play About the Baby, The Goat and his Pulitzer Prize-winning Seascape, which recently opened in a well-reviewed new production at Lincoln Center.
Established in 1983, New York's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & TransgenderCommunity Center
is the largest LGBT community center on the East Coast and second largest such
center in the world. Each week, 6,000 people visit the Center.
Tickets to the Albee discussion are $10, but seating is extremely limited. To
reserve a seat, visit www.gaycenter.org.
