Tour of Virginia Woolf, with Turner and Irwin Begins Jan 1

Kathleen Turner and Bill Irwin -- who conclude a 16-week sold-out engagement of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in London's West End on May 13, 2006 -- will star in an exclusive 5-month U.S. tour of the play, starting January 1, 2007 at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, it has been announced by producer Elizabeth Ireland McCann.

Now from January through May 2007, theatregoers in Washington, DC, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Tucson will have the opportunity to see the classic Albee play, which was directed by Anthony Page to both Broadway and London acclaim.

"Having waited for so long to find the right stars with the right chemistry to play George and Martha," producer Elizabeth Ireland McCann says, "we couldn't be happier that these two great actors have agreed to spend five months on the road. When you hear Broadway and London audiences cheering night after night at curtain call, you don't really want it to end."

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? -- Albee's landmark play in which marriage is a battleground -- opened at Broadway's Longacre Theatre on March 20, 2005 and received six Tony Award nominations, including Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play (Kathleen Turner), Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play (Bill Irwin), Best Costume Design for a Play (Jane Greenwood), and a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre awarded to Edward Albee. Irwin won the 2005 Tony for Best Actor as George.

The play features set design by John Lee Beatty, costume design by Jane Greenwood, lighting design by Peter Kaczorowski and sound design by Mark Bennett.

Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is produced on tour by the producers of the Broadway engagement: Elizabeth Ireland McCann, Daryl Roth, Scott Rudin, Terry Allen Kramer, Roger Berlind, James L. Nederlander and Nick Simunek. Joey Parnes serves as the Executive Producer. 

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