“Ever since Jerry cornered Peter on a Central Park bench in “The Zoo Story” and demanded an audience, Albee has served as ‘an invaluable irritant to the status quo.’ With ‘The Zoo Story’ hitting off-Broadway in 1959 and, three years later, ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ on Broadway, the American establishment had an unnerving new commentator wielding a venomously witty pen. Albee was in, or It, for a good while. Then, by the late 1970s, Albee was out. Since the success of “Three Tall Women” a decade ago, he has been in again.”