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Article: Uta Hagen, 'Virginia Woolf' star on Broadway, dies at 84
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- Chicago Sun-Times
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- January 16, 2004
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NEW YORK -- Uta Hagen, the actress whose brutal, braying
performance of Martha in the original production of Edward Albee's
"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" galvanized Broadway in the 1960s,
has died. She was 84.
Ms. Hagen died Wednesday at her Manhattan home, said Barnetta
Carter, managing director of the HB Studio, an acting school the
actress helped found. Ms. Hagen had been in poor health since
suffering a stroke in 2001.
The actress was a versatile performer, at home not only in
Shakespeare, Chekhov and Shaw, but in plays by Albee, Clifford Odets
and Tennessee Williams. Ms. Hagen also was a dedicated acting
teacher, writing the well-regarded 1991 textbook A Challenge for the
Actor and ...