Review: ‘Virginia Woolf’ goes on and on as plays used to do

With new plays tending to run 80 to 100 minutes with no intermission -- perhaps a concession to the shortened attention spans of the social media age -- Edward Albee’s three-hour Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? from the middle of the last century sticks out as an anomaly on contemporary stages.

Still, the sharp-tongued domestic drama, set in the drunken wee hours at the New England home of a failed college professor and his bitter wife, can be riveting in its intensity and whiplash-inducing shifts of tone.

The Classics Theatre Project exists to put on the socially conscious plays of Albee’s era and predecessors like Eugene O’Neill, Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams who also dived into the downsides of the modern human condition. There’s nothing overtly wrong with Classics’ new produ