'Cocktails With George and Martha' examines what it means to live as husband and wife, and how 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' kicked down staid cultural depictions of marriage.

It has been years since I have dropped in on George and Martha, the sniping hosts of one of theater’s most uncomfortable social gatherings in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.” ...

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? remains a must-see because of what made it controversial in its time. George and Martha push each other to the brink, but by sunrise trespasses have been forgiven ...

Ugly and combatative, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a well-acted drama that lingers with audiences long after the final curtain. This fearless Stray Dog production pulls no punches in ...

Philip Gefter's Cocktails with George and Martha traces the evolution of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? — from Broadway sensation, to Oscar-winning film starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard ...

In “Cocktails With George and Martha,” Mr. Gefter traces the history of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” to reveal where it came by its savage insights into the sacred institution, and ...

What a document dump! The most delicious parts of “Cocktails With George and Martha,” Philip Gefter’s unapologetically obsessive new book about “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf ...

Cocktails with George and Martha: Movies, Marriage, and the Making of ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ Philip Gefter. Bloomsbury, $32 (368p) ISBN 978-1-63557-962-8.

In “Cocktails with George and Martha: Movies, Marriage and the Making of ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,’” which is in stores Feb. 13, Philip Gefter deftly depicts all of that, but ...

Key to a successful “Virginia Woolf” is having a gritty, foul-mouthed Martha who can unleash violent rants and merciless barbs, emasculate George and Nick while seducing them, and then ...

It’s an evening filled with verbal jabs and emotional gut punches between George, a not-quite-successful-enough associate professor of history at a northeastern college, and Martha, the daughter ...