FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 10, 2005
Contact: Michael Corby
904.632.3310

Florida Community College DramaWorks premieres Albee’s “The Lady From Dubuque”

Florida Community College DramaWorks and the 16th Annual International Conference on College Teaching and Learning will present the Northeast Florida premiere of “The Lady from Dubuque” by Edward Albee. Three public performances will be presented on the Wilson Center for the Arts Main Stage at Florida Community College’s South Campus, 11901 Beach Blvd., at the following dates and times: Thursday, March 31, at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, April 2, at 8 p.m.; and Sunday, April 3, at 2 p.m. Tickets are $10 for the general public; $8 for students, seniors and military with ID; and $5 for Florida Community College students and employees. For tickets and information, call 904.646.2222 or 904.646.3373.

Please be advised this production contains strong language and content, and is not suitable for younger audiences.

“The Lady from Dubuque” opened on Broadway on January 31, 1980.

Media Note: A special April 1 performance is reserved for attendees of the 16th Annual International Conference on College Teaching and Learning. No public tickets are available for that performance. Following the performance, playwright Edward Albee will attend a reception with cast and audience.

Edward Albee is regarded as one of the most significant and groundbreaking American playwrights of our time. Albee’s first play, “The Zoo Story,” produced in 1959 when he was 30 years old, heralded the arrival of a new, unique voice of the American theatre. In 1962, the landmark “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” opened on Broadway, and was later made into a film starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Albee has been awarded three Pulitzer Prizes for Drama, the last being for “Three Tall Women” in 1994, as well as many New York Drama Critics Circle, Drama Desk, and Tony Awards. In 1996, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Kennedy Center, and in 1997 he received the National Medal of Arts from President Clinton. Albee regularly teaches and lectures at colleges and universities around the country.