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Untamed Woolf: Bill Irwin and Kathleen Turner draw blood in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?(Theater)(New York)(Theater Review)

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From: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbiannewsmagazine)
Date: 20050510
Author:Shewey, Don

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? * Written by Edward Albee * Directed by Anthony Page * Starring Kathleen Turner and Bill Irwin * Longacre Theatre, New York City (open-ended run)

We usually think of productions of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as defined by the diva-actress playing Martha. And certainly the new Broadway revival gets its star power from Ms. Serial Mom, Kathleen Turner, who's gotten old and wide-hipped enough to play Edward Albee's famously boozy, sexually rapacious professor's wife. But the big news of the production is Bill Irwin's revelatory performance as ...

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