Long considered the greatest living American playwright, Edward Albee died on Friday, at 88, at his home in Montauk, New York, leaving behind a body of work marked by its surreal imagination, savage wit, sulfurous view of human relations, and unflinching gaze into the existential abyss. Neil Simon he was not, though he shared his more box office-friendly contemporary's gift for putting odd couples into comic--in his case, blackly comic--situations: A mild-mannered publishing executive and a desp...
Long considered the greatest living American playwright, Edward Albee died on Friday, at 88, at his home in Montauk, New York, leaving behind a body of work marked by its surreal imagination, savage wit, sulfurous view of human relations, and unflinching gaze into the existential abyss. Neil Simon he was not, though he shared his more box office-friendly contemporary's gift for putting odd couples into comic--in his case, blackly comic--situations: A mild-mannered publishing executive and a desp...
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