Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee

Starring Jon Hudson Odom, Kelly McAndrew, Isabella de Souza Moore, and Paul David Story

Scenic Design by Lisa Orzolek

Costume Design by Meghan Doyle

Lighting Design by Paul Whitaker

Sound Design by Jason Ducat

Production Stage Manager: Anne Jude

All photos taken by Adams VisCom for the Denver Center 2022 production

PRESS:

Review: Review: George and Martha return in Denver Center revival of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”

“As this production’s Martha, Kelly McAndrew is delicious fun. But it is Jon Hudson Odom who commands the room — which might be an odd thing to say about a play that remains very much about masculinity and its fragility. While tempting to instead say “masculinity and emasculation,” this production with director Margot Bordelon at the helm refutes that misogynist read. George and Martha give as good as they get and the pair’s vicious, verbal pas de deux buoys and destroys them equally.

Dawn can’t come fast enough, and yet Bordelon paces the three-hour play deftly. When things wind down, they do so with a deep melancholy and wounding truths.

This production is handsome, and clever in its own right. The costume, set, lighting and sound designers have risen to the occasion for the Denver Center Theatre Company’s first in-person production”

- Lisa Kennedy, The Denver Post

“As the first production in the newly refurbished Singleton Theatre (formerly the Ricketson), the Denver Center Theatre Company take on this American stalwart is topnotch. New York-based director Margot Bordelon puts a fair amount of emphasis on the humorous side of what’s an otherwise deeply disturbing play on many levels.

These are messy lives, and Bordelon hit the casting jackpot with Jon Hudson Odom and Kelly McAndrew as George and Martha. Odom masterfully splits the difference between George’s biting sarcasm and his patience and apparent affection for Martha. Shuffling about in his cardigan trying to keep up with her non-stop requests for another drink (gin on the rocks), Odom delivers George’s lines with deadly precision, a soft-voiced asshole who knows just where to slip the knife.

Martha is the boozy, brassy blonde whose cuts are coarser but no less deadly. McAndrew nails the nasty while gradually revealing the cracks in her own sarcastic armor. Sure, it’s there in the script, but in the closer confines of the Singleton, we can see it on her face even before they’re spoken. The two of them together, it’s like watching fighting fish in a bowl wanting to kill each other at the same time they know they’ve still got to live with one another.

If you’re ever wanting to see one of these “big plays you’ve been hearing about for years” but haven’t actually seen, this is a great time to do it. This DCTC production is excellent”

- Alex Miller, Onstage Colorado