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Introduction

In 1994, after enduring a lull in his theatrical career, Edward Albee won his third Pulitzer Prize for drama. In 1996, Edward Albee 's play, A Delicate Balance, celebrating its thirtieth birthday on Broadway, won a Tony Award for the best revival play of the year. Together, these awards mark the enduring qualities of both the playwright and his play.
A Delicate Balance was first produced at the Martin Beck Theatre on Broadway on September 12, 1966. It came four years after Albee 's other huge Broadway hit Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962). Both of these plays deal with a recurring theme of Albee 's, which entails a sense of missed opportunity and loss. Both plays also deal with

References: Linda Ben-Zvi, Review of Finding the Sun, Theatre Journal, 36 (March 1984): 102-103; One of the few reviews of this Albee play produced in Colorado. C. W. E. Bigsby, Albee (Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1969); This book gives Albee 's biography to 1958 and analyzes the plays up to A Delicate Balance. Robert Brustein, Seasons of Discontent (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1965), pp. 26-29, 46-49, 145-148, 155-158, 304-311; Reviews of Albee 's productions. Brustein, The Theatre of Revolt: An Approach to Modern Drama (Boston: Little, Brown, 1964); This book on experimental theater relates Albee to existential revolt and the Pirandellian theme of conflict between illusion and reality. Martin Esslin, The Theatre of the Absurd (Garden City: Doubleday, 1969), pp. 266-270; This valuable overview of the experimental theater discusses Albee and his contemporaries. John Gassner, "Edward Albee: An American Dream"," in Dramatic Soundings (New York: Crown, 1968), pp. 591-607; Discussion of Albee 's plays. Mel Gussow, "Albee, Odd Man in on Broadway," Newsweek, 61 (4 February 1963): 49-52; An interview with Albee relating him to the other American absurdist dramatists. Anne Paolucci, From Tension to Tonic: The Plays of Edward Albee (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1972); Discusses Albee 's work as existential and considers him the first important writer since O 'Neill to break away from message plays. Michael E. Rutenberg, Edward Albee: Playwright in Protest (New York: DBS Publishers, 1970); A general analysis of Albee 's plays up to Box and Chairman Mao Tse-Tung Recent Updates April 1, 2004: Albee added a first act to his play Zoo Story, called "Homelife." The new version of the play will be performed as Peter and Jerry and premiere at the Hartford Stage in Connecticut on May 20 July 9, 2004: Albee 's Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf will be revived on Broadway in early 2005 in a production directed by Anthony Page and starring Kathleen Turner and Bill Irwin. Source: New York Times, www.nytimes.com, July 9, 2004.