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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. Click here for tickets.
Reviews
NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW:
"August is probably the most exciting new American play Broadway has seen in years. Oh, forget probably: It is, flat-out, no asterisks and without qualifications, the most exciting new American play Broadway has seen in years. Fiercely funny and bitingly sad, this turbo-charged tragicomedy which spans three acts and more than three blissful hours doesn't just jump-start the fall theater season, recently stalled when the stagehands went on strike. August throws it instantaneously into high gear."
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."
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USA TODAY REVIEW:
"August: Osage County, at the Imperial Theatre, Tracy Letts, a playwright best known for the taut, twisted Killer Joe and Bug, unexpectedly and brilliantly channels Eugene O'Neill. Running at nearly 3 ½ hours with two intermissions, and focusing on a drug-addled matriarch and her damaged offspring, August might be viewed as an homage to Long Day's Journey Into Night."
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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."
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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."
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THE 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."
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AMNY REVIEW:
"Eugene O'Neill wrote a drama about family life in 2007, what would it look like? Take a look at Tracy Letts' August: Osage County, a kind of contemporary mix of Long Day's Journey Into Night and The Little Foxes that is superb in its own right."
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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."
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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."
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NY1 ON STAGE REVIEW:
"Tracy Letts's August: Osage County is the dysfunctional-family drama supersized: a bulging scrapbook of misery, grudges and poisoned inheritance. They don't make plays like this anymore. It's three and a half hours, with 13 cast members on a three-tiered set spinning out at least a dozen storylines. The result is a tremendous achievement in American playwriting: a dynamic, populist, tragicomic portrait of a tough land and its even tougher people."
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