By Michael Long Edward Albee talks about New York as if it were an old, unfaithful friend. The city that provided the backdrop for his greatest successes as a writer seems inhospitable to him now.

By LAURENCE PHELAN *** The Gum Thief is an epistolary novel largely consisting of the diary entries which two employees of a Vancouver branch of the office supplies store Staples leave for one another to find.

By Holahan, Jane Edward Albee, considered one of America's greatest playwrights and best known for "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," will receive the first Creativity Award from the Pennsylvania Academy of Music. Albee, who will be honored in Lancaster on Oct.

By Matt Wolf It's ladies' night lately at the National Theatre, where Nicholas Hytner, artistic director of arguably England's most important playhouse, is seeing to it that women are given the chance to fire on all fronts.

By Michael Kuchwara NEW YORK -- "It's just a quirk of the brain that makes one a playwright," says Edward Albee, a man who knows a thing or two about writing for the stage. "I have the same experiences that everybody else does, but since I have this quirk in my head, I am not content with that.