NEW YORK – It will be Kathleen Turner (search) as Martha and Bill Irwin as George in a Broadway revival of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (search) next year.
Edward Albee's blistering domestic drama will open in late March 2005 at a theater to be announced. Preview performances begin March 12. The production will play a three-week tryout engagement at the Wilbur Theatre in Boston, opening there Feb. 16.
Also in the cast are David Harbour as Nick and Mireille Enos as Honey, the other couple in Albee's explosive examination of marriage and other relationships.
Anthony Page, the director of the current London production of Albee's "The Goat," will direct. "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" was last seen on Broadway in 1976 in a production starring Colleen Dewhurst and Ben Gazarra. The original, starring Uta Hagen and Arthur Hill, opened in 1962.
Turner was last seen on Broadway in a stage version of "The Graduate," while Irwin starred opposite Sally Field (search) in "The Goat."
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