August: Osage County

The New York Sun sat down with Anna Shapiro, the director of Pulitzer Prize-winning play August: Osage County. She won the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards for best direction of a play. But now she's up for best director at the Tony Awards.  read more »

It has been almost three months since The Wire's series finale, and we're all itching to hear about what our favorite actors on the show will be up to. We'll soon see Jimmy McNulty, or Dominic West, on the big screen playing the villain in the sequel to The Punisher movie. Michael, er...Tristan Wilds, is switching zipcodes, to the new 90210. Remember Roland "Prez" Pryzbylewski? He was the woefully mousy police officer who resigned in shame after shooting a fellow undercover cop to become a pretty good teacher in the local Balitmore public school. Well he, or actually the actor who plays him, Jim True-Frost, will be coming to our zipcode to play another kinda pathetic character in Tracy Lett's Pulitzer Prize-winning play August: Osage County.

Mr. True-Frost will play "Little Charles," the gentle, misguided 37-year-old who is called a loser by his mother and is having an affair with his first cousin. He'll start performing on the Music Box Theatre stage starting June 17.  read more »

August: Osage County, Tracy Letts' "rambling and entertaining black comedy involving those essential props of American family life—child abuse, alcoholism, drug dependency, divorce, incest, pedophilia, nymphomania and suicide," as the Observer's John Heilpern called it in his December review, has received a 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Mr. Heilpern wrote that the play, currently being staged at the Imperial Theatre, is "a bold commitment on Broadway." More after the jump.  read more »

Dennis Letts, a retired professor and an actor who made his Broadway debut this season in his son’s acclaimed play August: Osage County, died on Friday from cancer. He was 73. August: Osage County, written by Tracy Letts, originated with the Steppenwolf Theater Company in Chicago last summer and opened in New York in December to some of the year’s best reviews. Dennis Letts played an Oklahoma patriarch whose disappearance sparks an acrimonious family reunion.  read more »

Charles Isherwood wrote that August: Osage County is “the most exciting new American play Broadway has seen in years.”

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