Humanities fest lures Albee, Trillin, Styron

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee, author of suchworks as "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf," "A Delicate Balance" and"Three Tall Women," will give the keynote address at the seventhannual Chicago Humanities Festival Nov. 8-10. The three-daydawn-to-dusk event, to be held at locations throughout the city, willexamine the theme of birth and death.

Albee's lecture, scheduled for Nov. 10 at Orchestra Hall, istitled "The Rise of the Unhumanities." It will consider "the growingthreats to our national well-being as a culture, to our educationalsystem and to our moral health." Two early Albee one-acts - "TheSandbox" and "The Death of Bessie Smith" - will be performed …