Glenda Jackson Stands Tall, On And Off Stage
The Academy Award-winning actress (and former member of British Parliament) returns to Broadway after a 30-year absence in Edward Albee's Three Tall Women.
by Scott Simon
Mar 31, 2018
2 minutes
A generation after it won the Pulitzer Prize for drama, Edward Albee's Three Tall Women makes its Broadway debut this week.
Three women of different generations — one in her 90s, one in her 50s, one in her 20s — are brought together around a deathbed. They bark, joke, bicker and compare their different vantages in life.
A small but all-star cast gives vivacity to Albee's surgically sharp — is making her first return to Broadway in 30 years.
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