Edward Albee's The Zoo Story was originally produced on September 28, 1959, at the Schiller Theatre Werkstatt in Berlin, Germany, where it shared the bill with Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape. After this successful German production, The Zoo Story debuted off-Broadway at the Provincetown Theatre in New York on January 14, 1960. On October 9, 1968, The Zoo Story finally made its Broadway debut at the Billy Rose Theatre where it once again shared the bill with Krapp's Last Tape. One of Edward Albee's most popular plays, The Zoo Story tells the tale of a drifter who acts out his own murder in Central Park with the unwitting aid of an upper-middle-class editor.