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In a small theatre this play is even more electric, as acclaimed director Sarah Goodes conducts the bloodsports – and a star-studded cast – with precision

There was never anything shrinking about the confidence Glenda Jackson projected on stage and screen in her heyday. Afflicted with an uncommon common sense, her characters were defined by their sharp intelligence, independence and, yes, irritability. They were nobody’s fool, even when they wound up with the short end of…

Albee's play was inspired by his difficult relationship with his adoptive mother.

NEW YORK — In “Three Tall Women,” the great playwright Edward Albee identified what he called the “360-degree view.” It happens, he said, in your 40s or 50s, when you’re old enough to understand the folly of youth and still young enough to see and feel the agonizing decline of…