Three Tall Women Summary
Edward Albee

Biography EssayIn the early 1960s it was customary to find the names of four young playwrights linked: Edward Albee, Jack Gelber, Arthur Kopit, and Jack Richardson. These, and certain others like them... Read more

Edward Albee is a playwright best known for such award-winning dramas as The Zoo Story, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf", Tiny Alice, and Three Tall Women. With his confrontational dramas and decidedly... Read more

Early in the twentieth century, American theater critics and drama scholars wondered where the native modern dramatists were--the American equals to Henrik Ibsen, August Strindberg, and Anton Chekhov-... Read more

In the following review, Faux provides a laudatory assessment of Three Tall Women. Edward Albee's third Pulitzer prize-winning play Three Tall Women is a meditation on a woman's life and... Read more

In the following review, Hutchings examines Three Tall Women, comparing it to works by Samuel Beckett. Identified only as B and C, two of the three tall women of Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize-w... Read more

[In the following review of a production of Three Tall Women directed by Albee, Luere offers praise for the play, comparing it to Albee's previous works and noting his focus on family, guilt, l... Read more

[Kanfer is an American novelist, playwright, short story writer, essayist, scriptwriter, and critic. In the excerpt below, he offers a mixed review of Three Tall Women, arguing that "this elega... Read more

[Appelo frequently writes for Entertainment Weekly. In the review below, he favorably assesses Three Tall Women and discusses the insight it gives into Albee's life and works.] Photos reveal Ed... Read more

[In the article below, based in part on a conversation with Albee, Richards provides a brief overview of Albee's career, relates the playwright's reaction to winning the Pulitzer, and di... Read more