On this day in 1962, Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf premiered in New York. Despite the success of his earlier off-Broadway hit, The Zoo Story, the explicit language and emotional battering in Virginia Woolf had made it a difficult sell to many actors and most Broadway producers in the early 60s. When the legendary Billy Rose finally bought in, he placed an ad in the New York Times that was calculated to forewarn and entice: he was offering cut-rate preview tickets, the ad explained, so that "the Proust -reading stenographer can afford to blow herself to an intellectual binge ... FULL STORY »
