By Jonathan Mandell. Can Edward Albee save the Interfaith Medical Center in Bedford-Stuyvesant? Can theater change the world? Those are the questions I asked after I attended an early performance of Albee's "The Death of Bessie Smith" in its first New York production in 46 years. Albee gave permission to a two-year-old theater company called New Brooklyn, which wanted to put on the play in a room off the hospital's f…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:34PM on March 6, 2014