A Paradigm for New Play Development: The Albee-Barr-Wilder Playwrights Unit

Abstract

Albee's initial commercial success (in particular with his plays Zoo Story and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), the strong critical response to his work, and the free hand Albee experienced as a producing partner to Barr and Wilder captured the imagination of the New York theatre community and stimulated an atmosphere in which new plays and new playwrights were suddenly hot ticket items.