Editing Edward Albee (section)

=== 1991–2016: The Later Plays ===
In 1991 he wrote the play ''[[Three Tall Women]]'', a two act play that premiered at the [[Vienna's English Theatre]] about three unnamed women. The play was revived in 2018 directed by [[Joe Mantello]] starring [[Glenda Jackson]], [[Laurie Metcalf]], and [[Allison Pill]].<ref>{{cite web|url= https://playbill.com/production/three-tall-women-john-golden-theatre-2017-2018|title= Three Tall Women (Broadway, 2018)|website= Playbill|accessdate= February 11, 2024}}</ref> The 2018 production received the [[Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play]]. Allison Adato of ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' wrote of the play, "Edward Albee's Three Tall Women, in which a nonagenarian revisits events of her life refracted through both her own dementia and the differing recollections of her younger selves, is a not-quite-memory play filled with regret, resentment, entitlement, various bodily indignities".<ref>{{cite magazine|url= https://ew.com/theater/2018/03/29/three-tall-women-review/|title= After 30 years, Glenda Jackson is back on Broadway in Three Tall Women: EW review|magazine= [[Entertainment Weekly]]|accessdate= February 11, 2024}}</ref>

[[Georgia State University]] English professor Matthew Roudane divides Albee's plays into three periods: the Early Plays (1959–1966), characterized by gladiatorial confrontations, bloodied action and fight to the metaphorical death; the Middle Plays (1971–1987), when Albee lost the favor of Broadway audience and started premiering in the U.S. regional theaters and in Europe; and the Later Plays (1991–2016), received as a remarkable comeback and watched by appreciative audiences and critics the world over.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/edward-albee/overview-the-theater-of-edward-albee/A5804573603B72A5AE74264BD6E6C887/core-reader|chapter=Overview: The Theater of Edward Albee|last=Roudané|first=Matthew|date=August 2017|title=Edward Albee: A Critical Introduction|pages=8–16|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9781139034845|language=en|access-date=March 20, 2020}}</ref>

According to ''The New York Times'', Albee was "widely considered to be the foremost American playwright of his generation."<ref>{{cite news|title=Edward Albee, Trenchant Playwright Who Laid Bare Modern Life, Dies at 88|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/17/arts/edward-albee-playwright-of-a-desperate-generation-dies-at-88.html|access-date=December 16, 2016|newspaper=The New York Times|date=September 17, 2016}}</ref> The less-than-diligent student later dedicated much of his time to promoting American university theatre. He served as a Distinguished Professor of Playwriting and held the Lyndall Finley Wortham Chair in the Performing Arts at the [[University of Houston]]. His plays are published by [[Dramatists Play Service]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dramatists.com/index.asp |title=Dramatists Play Service |publisher=Dramatists.com |access-date=May 21, 2012}}</ref> and [[Samuel French, Inc.]]