'Three Tall Women' at the John Golden Theatre

What is really awesome about this is that in a season of big revivals - Kusher and O'Neill it's Albee, maybe the greatest writer of those 3 (indeed maybe the great American playwright ever?) that ends up standing the tallest (no pun intended!). I say that because even though AiA is going to be the big Tony winner this year and O'Neill occupies a very unique place in theater, Albee in some ways beats them at their own game.

First, his plays cover a wide subject matter and sort of are immune to being politicized or social critiques - the text stands alone and to play it, it needs to be served - the staging is of less importance (though not unimportant either, its just text first). Secondly, you almost never find any showing off in his plays - you often have to read and re-read them or see multiple productions before they click. Yet he writes great parts for actors.

I really would like to have seen this - my favorite Albee play is The Zoo Story (or "Peter & Jerry", the original play only, he later expanded it), his first play from 1959 and Three Tall Women was written 30 years later - he's just had an amazing run when you look at his whole career.

I'm so glad you got to see it and it lived up to the hype, there's nothing like seeing a great actor and Jackson is most definitely that, in person. In our thread about the "best actor and actress across all 3 mediums", her colleague, Maggie Smith was also mentioned in that thread and played this role rather famously too but I do think this role seems just perfectly suited to Jackson.

Were you able to see her King Lear at the Old Vic? So many critics hailed it as the best performance they had ever seen - across all mediums. I can't believe the adaptation didn't come to New York... And I also can't believe that she lost the Olivier to Billie fucking Piper, of all people. Thank God Piper's play transferred to New York Off-Broadway - if she had beat Glenda R for the Tony, too, I think I might actually have seethed.