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directed by kenneth kelleher

MARCH 30 - APRIL 24, 2022

WINNER! 2008 Tony Award for Best Play
WINNER! 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama

The Stage’s long-awaited postponed production due to COVID-19.

This Pulitzer Prize-winning play erupts with biting wit. After the disappearance of their alcoholic patriarch, three sisters along with their partners, reunite in AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY to console their razor-tongued, drug-addled mother Violet. As the family careens toward a near-apocalyptic meltdown; old grievances are aired, family secrets unearthed, and new wounds are sowed.  This provocative Tony Award-winning play unflinchingly—and uproariously—explores the challenge of escaping the inescapable.

CAST

*Members of Actors’ Equity Association

CREATIVES

KENNETH KELLEHER | DIRECTOR

MADELINE BERGER | COSTUME DESIGN

MAURICE VERCOUTERE | LIGHT DESIGN

STEVE SCHOENBECK | SOUND DESIGN

LEE THOMPSON | PROJECTIONS DESIGN

JENN TRAMPENAU | PROPS COORDINATOR

BILL VUJEVICH | SCENIC PAINT

JUSTIN TRAVIS BUCHS* | STAGE MANAGER

About the Playwright

"All the writing I've done has taken a big piece out of me, and I've learned from everything I've written...I was trying to get at something with that play, and I didn't even know it when I was working on it, but ultimately that's WHY I was working on it." -Tracy Letts

Tracy Letts, a long-time company member of Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, is a multifaceted award-winning actor and playwright. AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY premiered at the Steppenwolf Theatre on June 28, 2007, and closed on August 26, 2007. It went on to have its Broadway debut at the Imperial Theater on December 4, 2007, and the production transferred to the Music Box Theatre on April 29, 2008. The Broadway show closed on June 28, 2009. Letts received the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY and a Tony Award for his portrayal of George in the revival of WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? He has written the screenplays of three films adapted from his own plays: BUG and KILLER JOE, both directed by William Friedkin, and AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY directed by John Wells.

TRACY LETTS OFF CAMERA INTERVIEW

Watch Sam Jones with OFF CAMERA interview Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning Tracy Letts, playwright of AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY. In this interview, Letts delves into the autobiographical nature of this raw and intense play.