From a New York point of view, Edward Albee is solidly back. Yet, from his own perspective, he never went away. “You’re in fashion, you’re out of fashion. That comes and goes. I’ll be out of fashion again.’ He notes, however, that in the years the theater establishment regarded him as passe, he ‘was performed everywhere except in New York. I was still writing all the time. My output has always been pretty steady, a play every year and half’.”