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About the Play
The pulitzer-prize award-winning family drama by Edward Albee.
Story:
A Delicate Balance follows Agnes and Tobias, a long-married couple who must maintain their equilibrium as over the course of a weekend they welcome home their 36-year-old daughter following the collapse of her fourth marriage. They must also give shelter to their friends, all the while tolerating Agnes’ alcoholic sister Claire.
Fun Fact
According to Albee, the play “has to do with [the] social and political structure that I grew up around, unfortunately, and left as soon as I could. But it’s also about what they’re all about. People lying to themselves. About who they are, how they view themselves, yes, the whole thing. Our inability to be objective about ourselves.”
The Telegraph by Tim Martin
Broadway Premiere
- Theatre
- Martin Beck Theatre
- Opening Night
- Sep 22, 1966
- Total Performances
- 132
- Original Cast
- Hume Cronyn, Rosemary Murphy, Jessica Tandy, Henderson Forsythe, Carmen Mathews, Marian Seldes
- Director
- Alan Schneider
- Scenic Design
- William Ritman
- Costume Design
- Theoni V. Aldredge
- Lighting Design
- Tharon Musser
1996 Broadway Revival
- Theatre
- Plymouth Theatre
- Opening Night
- Apr 21, 1996
- Total Performances
- 185
- Original Cast
- John Carter, George Grizzard, Rosemary Harris, Mary Beth Hurt, Elaine Stritch, Elizabeth Wilson
- Director
- Gerald Gutierrez
- Scenic Design
- John Lee Beatty
- Costume Design
- Jane Greenwood
- Lighting Design
- Pat Collins
- Sound Design
- Aural Fixation
2014 Broadway Revival
- Theatre
- John Golden Theater
- Opening Night
- Nov 20, 2014
- Total Performances
- 108
- Original Cast
- Bob Balaban, Glenn Close, Lindsay Duncan, Clare Higgins, John Lithgow, Martha Plimpton
- Director
- Pam MacKinnon
- Producer
- Scott Rudin, Elizabeth I. McCann, Eli Bush, Roger Berlind, William Berlind, Jon B. Platt, Roy Furman, The Shubert Organization, Ruth Hendel, Scott M. Delman, Stephanie P. McClelland, Sonia Friedman Productions/Tulchin Bartner Productions, The Araca Group, Heni Koenigsberg, Daryl Roth, Joan Raffe & Jhett Tolentino, Catherine & Fred Adler and David Merrick Arts Foundation
- Scenic Design
- Santo Loguasto
- Costume Design
- Ann Roth
- Lighting Design
- Brian MacDevitt
- Sound Design
- Scott Lehrer
1973 Film Version
- Movie Name
- A Delicate Balance
- Type
- Hollywood Feature Film
- Director
- Tony Richardson
- Screenplay
- Edward Albee
- Starring
- Katharine Hepburn, Paul Scofield, Lee Remick
Scripts, Videos, Merchandise and More
Books
Videos
Merchandise
1967 Tony Award Nominations
Best Featured Actress in a Play - Marian Seldes
Best Play
Best Actor in Play - Hume Cronyn
Best Actress in a Play - Rosemary Murphy
Best Direction of a Play
1967 Pulitzer Prize Nominations
Pulitzer Prize for Drama
1996 Tony Award Nominations
Best Revival of a Play
Best Actor in Play - George Grizzard
Best Direction of a Play
Best Actress in a Play - Rosemary Harris
Best Actress in a Play - Elaine Stritch
Best Scenic Design
Best Costume Design
1996 Drama Desk Award Nominations
Best Play Revival
Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play - Elaine Stritch
Outstanding Director of a Play
Outstanding Actor in a Play - George Grizzard
Outstanding Actress in a Play - Rosemary Harris
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