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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.
Glenda Jackson plays A, the eldest of the three women in the new Broadway production of Edward Albee's <em>Three Tall Women.</em>

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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