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No fear of `Virginia Woolf'; Sell-out crowds, critical acclaim pave way for Broadway.(ENTERTAINMENT)

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From: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
Date: 20010408
Author:Preston, Rohan

Big, bad-talking "Virginia Woolf" did not scare anyone away from the theater.

"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," Edward Albee's acid- and alcohol-soaked drama about a pair of acerbic, brow-beaten academic lushes who invite a young couple over for a nightcap and mind games at their home, drew patrons in droves to the Guthrie Theater.

The show, staged with deft precision by David Esbjornson and played masterfully by stars Bill McCallum, Carrie Preston, Mercedes Ruehl and Patrick Stewart, was a sell-out, playing to 95 percent of capacity, or 54,565 people, over its ...

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