AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY BROADWAY REVIEWS
Opening Night: December 4, 2007
| Show |
NY TIMES |
NEWSDAY |
USA TODAY |
VARIETY |
DAILY NEWS |
 |
 |
|
|
|
|
Synopsis: When the patriarch vanishes, all of the Westons must return to the family home in rural Oklahoma to care for their afflicted (and mistress-of-manipulation) mother. With rich insight and brilliant humor, Letts paints a vivid portrait of a Midwestern family at a turning point.
Broadway Reviews
NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW:
"It’s really not a good idea to mess with Violet Weston, the fire-breathing dragon lady of Pawhuska, Okla., who presides over a feast of family combat in “August: Osage County.” As all who have seen Tracy Letts’s celebrated comedy-drama on Broadway no doubt vividly recall, Violet does not brook much interference when it comes to indulging her favorite pastimes."
Click here to read the full "August: Osage County" review.
NEWSDAY REVIEW:
"Tracy Letts' ripping, riveting new play, August: Osage County, the new Broadway season's first must-see offering and arguably the best new American play since Albee's The Goat."
Click here to read the full "August: Osage County" review.
VARIETY REVIEW:
"Ferociously entertaining August: Osage County, the American dysfunctional family drama comes roaring into the 21st century with eyes blazing, nostrils flaring and fangs bared, laced with corrosive humor so darkly delicious and ghastly that you're squirming in your seat even as you're doubled over laughing."
Click here to read the full "August: Osage County" review.
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS REVIEW:
"Letts' perspective is bracingly fresh. He lets fly so many original and diabolically funny ideas about fear, yearning and relationships that he reinvigorates the family drama and brings it up to date. While he's at it, you're laughing hysterically one minute and appalled the next as the 3 1/2 -hour play flies by."
Click here to read the full "August: Osage County" review.
NEW YORKER REVIEW:
"In much of his work, the forty-two-year-old Oklahoman playwright Tracy Letts beautifully captures the puritan streak in the American grain. Like the filmmaker Sam Peckinpah and the Southern novelist and short-story writer Flannery O'Connor, Letts is an artist who creates drama by pitting violence against our banal sense of decency."
Click here to read the full "August: Osage County" review.
THEATERMANIA REVIEW:
"Clocking in at three hours and twenty minutes, Tracy Letts' superb new play, August: Osage County, is not exactly a light evening in the theater. It is, however, richly rewarding. Steppenwolf Theatre Company has assembled an excellent ensemble cast -- nearly all of whom originated their roles in the work's acclaimed Chicago run -- under the sharp and incisive direction of Anna D. Shapiro."
Click here to read the full "August: Osage County" review.
TIME REVIEW:
"The #1 Play of the Year! This original and corrosive black comedy deserves a seat at the dinner table with the great American family plays."
Click here to read the full "August: Osage County" review.
Sign up now to have the reviews emailed to you after every opening night!
Click here to buy tickets to AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY
|
