WATERFRONT PLAYHOUSE PRESENTS ‘THREE TALL WOMEN’

Awardwinning Play In An Awardwinning Theater

What if you could speak to the person you once were? Or to the person you are to become?

Would you see yourself at the physical peak of your 20s, the compromised middle ground of your 50s or in your decayed and terminal 90s, when all of life’s lessons and cruelties have been learned and endured but, ironically, are no longer fully remembered?

Edward Albee’s Pulitzer- and Tony Award-winning play, “Three Tall Women,” opens Thursday, April 6 at the Waterfront Playhouse on Mallory Square. Opening-night tickets include an after-party in the sculpture garden opposite the theater, sponsored by Kate Miano of The Gardens Hotel

“Three Tall Women” plays at 8 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday evenings through April 22, with a sneak preview on Wednesday, April 5 and a 2 p.m. Saturday matinee on April 15. For tickets call 305-2945015 or visit waterfrontplayhouse. org.

Directed by John McDonald, designed by Michael Boyer with costumes by Leigh Hooten, “Three Tall Women” plays as two symmetrical, but distinct plays. In the first, a doddering woman of 91 belligerently banters with two younger women: A terse nurse of 52 and a beautiful but bitter law clerk of 26. Together they bicker over the lives they will live, are living or have lived. Act Two is a turn of events that may leave audiences stunned.

Ben Brantley of The New York Times called the show “a truly moving work … an undeniably affecting