abstract:The Lady from Dubuque, a play by Edward Albee, opened on Broadway at the Morosco Theatre on January 31, 1980. It closed there after a mere 12 performances.
For the current performance of Edward Albee's "The LadyfromDubuque, " an entire ranchhouse appears to spread out, a suburban forest glimpsed beyond its windows.
It is, of course, no secret that critics can be wrong, both individually and collectively, but I find it hard to understand how the critics who wrote about "The LadyFromDubuque" in 1980 could have been so far off the mark.
After all, the founder of the magazine, Harold Ross (who was not from NY), famously said that his magazine was not for the little old lady in Dubuque, Iowa.