Albee

[ awl-bee ]

noun

1. Edward, 1928–2016, U.S. playwright.

Albee

/ ˈɔːlbiː /

noun

1. AlbeeEdward1928MUSTHEATRE: dramatist Edward. born 1928, US dramatist. His plays include Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962), Seascape (1975), Marriage Play (1986), Three Tall Women (1990), and Goat (2004)

Example Sentences

Her work is not strictly autobiographical, but as in the plays of Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee or Adrienne Kennedy, she has a canny way of rearranging the emotional furniture of her lived experience into tragicomedy.

From New York Times

As a publicist, he would help launch the career of the playwright Edward Albee by promoting his first full-length play, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” at the Billy Rose Theater in 1962.

From New York Times

Rarely seen diary entries from the screenwriter who adapted Edward Albee’s Broadway hit are a highlight of this unapologetically obsessive behind-the-scenes look at the classic film starring the super-couple Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.

From New York Times

As Menken is quoted in the book, Albee “used to come here every time to eat and just sit and listen while Willard and I argued. Then he wrote ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’”

From Los Angeles Times

Richard Burton, left, and Elizabeth Taylor in the screen adaptation of Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”

From New York Times