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August Osage County

<b>Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the 2008 Tony Award for Best New Play. Now a major motion picture </b> <p>"A tremendous achievement in American playwriting: a tragicomic populist portrait of a tough land and a tougher people." --<i>TimeOut New York</i> <p>"Tracy Letts' <i>August: Osage County</i> is what O'Neill would be writing in 2007. Letts has recaptured the nobility of American drama's mid-century heyday while still creating something entirely original." <i>--New York magazine</i> <p>"I don't care if <i>August: Osage County</i> is three-and-a-half hours long. I wanted more." -Howard Shapiro, <i>Philadelphia Inquirer</i> <p>"This original and corrosive black comedy deserves a seat at the table with the great American family plays."<i>--Time</i> <p>One of the most bracing and critically acclaimed plays in recent history, <i>August: Osage County</i> is a portrait of the dysfunctional American family at its finest--and absolute worst. When the patriarch of the Weston clan disappears one hot summer night, the family reunites at the Oklahoma homestead, where long-held secrets are unflinchingly and uproariously revealed. The three-act, three-and-a-half-hour mammoth of a play combines epic tragedy with black comedy, dramatizing three generations of unfulfilled dreams and leaving not one of its thirteen characters unscathed.<br><i>August: Osage County</i> has been produced in more than twenty countries worldwide and is now a major motion picture starring Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Chris Cooper, Dermot Mulroney, Sam Shepard, Juliette Lewis, and Ewan McGregor. <p><b>Tracy Letts</b> is the author of <i>Killer Joe</i>, <i>Bug</i>, and <i>Man from Nebraska</i>, which was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. His plays have been performed throughout the country and internationally. A performer as well as a playwright, Letts is a member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, where <i>August: Osage County</i> premiered.</p><br>