Edward Albee Still Working Hard At 80

Today, March 12th 2008 is Edward Albee's 80th Birthday. At the moment Albee is currently directing a revival of his plays The American Dream and The Sandbox set to open at the Cherry Lane Theater on March 25th. After that he begins rehearsals for Occupant with the Signature Theater Company. Then it's on to the Broadway run of his play Me, Myself and I.  Now, according to Michael Riedel of the New York Post, he won't even be getting a vacation. Riedel states that in Albee's next free moment he will be vacationing to Easter Island to begin writing a new play set there called Silence. 

"I've been to some impressive places," Albee says. "Egypt was impressive. So was the Yucatan and my first glacier. But Easter Island, out in the Pacific, a thousand miles away from anything - wow! The silence is amazing."