‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ Continues Onstage at the Public (Thurs., 3/27/25)

WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? by Edward Albee. Pittsburgh Public Theater. Through April 6.

It’s perhaps the most intoxicating play ever. George and Martha are at it (again and again) as their younger guests, Nick and Honey, are forced to play parlor games no cocktail party has ever endured since Edward Albee wrote his 1962 play about faculty marriage on an elite college campus. Brutal accusations, horrific fantasy, dark despair, and wisps of love swirl like cigarette smoke across icy incantations of betrayal and self-abuse. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is an American classic never to be missed. Few theater companies, even during Albee’s heyday, would commit their reputation to work so difficult to perform, yet so incredibly rewarding when done well. Pittsburgh Public Theater, in its 50th season, is to prove its mettle as it so often has since 1975. Only the most courageous actors and adoring audiences have come to learn the secret of Albee’s all-consuming masterpiece. Long acclaimed for her decades of work with the country’s best regional theaters, Pamela Berlin will direct. 7 p.m. 621 Penn Ave., Cultural District. (C.P.O.)

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