Kathleen Turner and Bill Irwin -- who conclude a 16-week sold-out
engagement of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in
London's West End on May 13, 2006 -- will star in an exclusive 5-month
U.S. tour of the play, starting January 1, 2007 at the Kennedy Center
in Washington, DC, it has been announced by producer Elizabeth Ireland
McCann.
Now from January through May 2007, theatregoers in Washington, DC, Los
Angeles, San Francisco and Tucson will have the opportunity to see the
classic Albee play, which was directed by Anthony Page to both Broadway
and London acclaim.
"Having waited for so long to find the right stars with the right
chemistry to play George and Martha," producer Elizabeth Ireland McCann
says, "we couldn't be happier that these two great actors have agreed
to spend five months on the road. When you hear Broadway and London
audiences cheering night after night at curtain call, you don't really
want it to end."
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? -- Albee's landmark play in which
marriage is a battleground -- opened at Broadway's Longacre Theatre on
March 20, 2005 and received six Tony Award nominations, including Best
Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play (Kathleen Turner), Best
Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play (Bill Irwin), Best Costume
Design for a Play (Jane Greenwood), and a Special Tony Award for
Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre awarded to Edward Albee. Irwin won
the 2005 Tony for Best Actor as George.
The play features set design by John Lee Beatty, costume design by Jane
Greenwood, lighting design by Peter Kaczorowski and sound design by
Mark Bennett.
Edward Albee's
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is produced on tour by
the producers of the Broadway engagement: Elizabeth Ireland McCann,
Daryl Roth, Scott Rudin, Terry Allen Kramer, Roger Berlind, James L.
Nederlander and Nick Simunek. Joey Parnes serves as the Executive
Producer.
