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Dominican University Presents Edward Albee

Dominican University’s Center Stage proudly presents An Evening with Edward Albee, one of the country’s leading dramatists for more than four decades as well as winner of three Pulitzer Prizes and a National Medal of Arts. Albee will discuss the state of theater and the arts in America on Saturday, February 21, 2004 at 8:00 p.m. in the Lund Auditorium, 7900 West Division Street, River Forest, Illinois. For tickets and information, call (708) 524-6942.

Albee’s 25 plays have stirred audiences since the late 1950s. His early triumphs (such as The Zoo Story and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf) detail the disillusionments of the Eisenhower era and the turbulence of the 1960s. He earned his first Pulitzer Prize in 1966 for A Delicate Balance. His second Pulitzer was earned in 1975 for Seascape, a fable-like work about a vacationing retired couple and a pair of talking sea lizards. In 1991, Albee scored a third Pulitzer for Three Tall Women, his bitter assessment of the life of a wealthy, cold, manipulative woman (based on his own adopted mother). Albee’s latest play, The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? , is a shocking investigation of the limits of love; it won a Tony Award for best play in 2002.

In his lecture, Albee will address the common themes of his works and share his belief that arts are fundamental to a democratic society. The playwright feels that it is an artist’s responsibility to provoke audience members in order to confront questions of morality and challenge personal values.

For more information, contact the Center Stage Box Office at (708) 524-6942. Tickets range from $20 to $40.

Founded in 1901, Dominican University is a comprehensive, coeducational Catholic institution offering bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Dominican offers 50 undergraduate academic programs through the Rosary College of Arts and Sciences and 15 graduate programs through the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, the Graduate School of Business and Information Systems, the School of Education, the Graduate School of Social Work and the Institute for Adult Learning. In the 2004 issue of America’s Best Colleges, U.S. News & World Report again ranked Dominican University in the top tier of Midwest master’s level universities and as a “best value” for the sixth consecutive year.