Albee Receives New Dramatists' Lifetime Achievement Award

New Dramatists will present their 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award to three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee at the group's 58th Annual Benefit Luncheon, which will be held at the Marriot Marquis Hotel on Thursday, May 17th.

Albee, who received a 2005 Lifetime Achievement Tony Award, has won Pulitzers for A Delicate Balance, Seascape and Three Tall Women.  Other plays include Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (for which he is perhaps best known), Tiny Alice, The Zoo Story, The Play About the Baby, and The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?. 

Albee's The Lady from Dubuque, starring Dame Maggie Smith, will open on the West End next month.  Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is currently playing a national tour starring Bill Irwin and Kathleen Turner, who were featured in the recent Broadway revival.

Tickets are $250; call 212-757-6960.

Photo of Edward Albee by Kerry Long