Tracy Letts

...Beaumont. Telecharge. -"Superior Donuts." Michael McKean stars as the owner of a rundown Chicago doughnut shop in a new play by Tracy Letts, author of "August: Osage County." Music Box. Telecharge. -"The 39 Steps." A stage adaptation...

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She appeared in The Sisters Rosensweig at the Barrymore Theatre. Her other stage credits include the Off-Broadway production of Tracy Letts' Killer Joe and Horton Foote's Talking Pictures at the Signature Theatre. The design team includes...

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...drama. The best work of Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams and Edward Albee revolves around dysfunctional domestic relationships. Now, Tracy Letts joins the club with AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY, his savagely funny and compelling indictment of where...

In this article: Stepping Out, William Shakespeare, and Beenie Man

...an astounding large-scale familial drama burst on Broadway, it trumpeted the arrival of Tracy Letts, who won the Pulitzer Prize. By contrast, his follow-up effort, Superior Donuts, is a quiet meditation on fathers and sons, hope and...

In this article: Michael McKean, DVD, and August: Osage County

...it must close to make way for Profiles' next show, a revival of "Killer Joe," the 1991 gonzo trailer-park thriller that put Tracy Letts (author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "August: Osage County") on the map. Steppenwolf's Rick Snyder...

In this article: August: Osage County, The Mercy Seat, and Neil LaBute

Before the end of the first scene, this play has veered away from Simon and more firmly into the dysfunctional territory of Tracy Letts' "August: Osage County," albeit with copious Yiddish interjections. There is, of course, a grand,...

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The awards will be announced on November 23. Following is a list of the nominations: Best Play - August: Osage County/Tracy Letts; Enron/Lucy Prebble; Jerusalem/Jez Butterworth; Punk Rock/Simon Stephens Best Actor - Simon...

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...EASY PRINTING LONDON-Plays about life in America and in Britain are shortlisted for the London Evening Standard Theater Awards. Tracy Letts' epic American family saga "August: Osage County" is shortlisted for best play, alongside...

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By Tracy Letts. Directed by Anna D. Shapiro. Until Nov. 15 at the Canon Theatre, 244 Victoria St. 416-872-1212 Anyone looking for a master class in great acting ought to rush down to the Canon Theatre, where Estelle Parsons opened Thursday...

In this article: August: Osage County, Estelle Parsons, Anna D. Shapiro, and Zingers

...Theatre. Estelle Parsons gives a masterful turn as chain-smoking, cancer-riddled, drug-dependent matriarch Violet Weston. By Tracy Letts, tonight-Sunday, Paramount Theatre, 911 Pine St., Seattle; $23.50-$63.50 (800-745-3000 or...

In this article: August: Osage County, Estelle Parsons, Cancer, Seattle, Oklahoma, Shannon Cochran, and Suicide