Whatever the reason, I'm glad that we finally managed to get on Mr. Albee's wavelength.

WSJ: The Lady From Dubuque | Tribes | Everybody Was Wrong About This Play | Theater Review by Terry Teachout

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For the current performance of Edward Albee's "The Lady from Dubuque, " an entire ranchhouse appears to spread out, a suburban forest glimpsed beyond its windows.

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Part of the problem may have arisen from the fact that Mr. Albee's characters sometimes address the audience directly, and that they can also hear each other's asides.

WSJ: The Lady From Dubuque | Tribes | Everybody Was Wrong About This Play | Theater Review by Terry Teachout

" David Esbjornson, the director, has served Mr. Albee exceptionally well, striking just the right balance between amusing archness and horrific realism, and John Arnone's set is a perfect realization of Mr. Albee's stage directions: "I see the environment as uncluttered, perhaps with a Bauhaus feeling.

WSJ: The Lady From Dubuque | Tribes | Everybody Was Wrong About This Play | Theater Review by Terry Teachout

But this is an error of taste, not a fatal mistake, and though it's undeniably irritating, it fails to diminish the play's impact, just as Mr. Albee's occasional lapses into preachiness ("We are not talking about the rights we pretend we give ourselves in this bewildered land of ours") are mere surface flaws.

WSJ: The Lady From Dubuque | Tribes | Everybody Was Wrong About This Play | Theater Review by Terry Teachout