Aug 30, 2008: Playwright Edward Albee announced his presence on the theater scene exactly 50 years ago with an explosive one-act piece innocently titled "The Zoo Story." Since then, the author of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, A Delicate Balance, Seascape, and Three Tall Women has become a monumental figure in American theater. Albee, who turned 80 this year, has remained an enfant terrible of the theater, composing subversive fare like The Goat at an age when playwrights would ordinarily be decades removed from their best work. more...