Following the loss of three-time Tony Award and three-time Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, producer and director Edward Albee, Off Broadway theatres across NYC will dim their lights on Wednesday, September 21st at 7:45PM for exactly one minute, the Off Broadway League has announced. Widely considered one of the greatest American Playwrights of his generation and of the 20th Century, Mr. Albee passed away at age 88 on Friday, September 16, 2016.
"Edward's work and talent epitomized the spirit of Off-Broadway," says Adam Hess, President of the Off Broadway League. "He challenged artists and audiences alike and through that process created some of the greatest theatrical pieces of the last century. In his honor, the Broadway and Off-Broadway League will join together to dim their lights." Mr. Albee began his career Off Broadway, with plays that established him as an astute critic of American values. Critics and audience took notice of his work with the debut of his existential one-act play The Zoo Story. The play about an intense encounter between two strangers on a park bench in New York City had its premiere in Berlin, Germany in 1959. The next year, It opened at the Provincetown Playhouse in Greenwich Village and energized the Off Broadway theater community. He wrote three more one-act plays that were well received Off Broadway: The Sandbox (1959), The Death of Bessie Smith (1959) and The American Dream (1961).Photo Credit: Walter McBride / WM Photos
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