Barbara Chai of the Wall Street Journal interviews Chicago actor and playwright Tracy Letts about the upcoming Broadway production of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

"In 2008, playwright Tracy Letts won a Tony Award and a Pulitzer Prize for "August: Osage County." Four years later, he's keen to see what Broadway looks like from the other side of the stage. Beginning with previews this week, Mr. Letts will make his Broadway acting debut in Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" The new Steppenwolf Theatre production opens Oct. 13—50 years to the day after the play's original Broadway opening. Mr. Letts has appeared as an actor before. But he still recalled the fear he felt when Mr. Albee, now 84, sat in on rehearsals for a run of "Virginia Woolf" in Chicago." READ MORE.