Music Box Theater

Previews started: 30th October 2007
Opened  : 20th November 2007
Transfers to the Music Box Theater : 29th April 2008

"without qualifications, the most exciting new American play Broadway has seen in years. Fiercely funny and bitingly sad, this turbo-charged tragicomedy...doesn’t just jump-start the fall theater season, “August” throws it instantaneously into high gear."
Charles Isherwood - New York Times

Meet the Westons - A vanished father. A pill-popping mother. Three sisters harboring shady little secrets.

When the large Weston family unexpectedly reunites after dad disappears, their Oklahoman family homestead explodes in a maelstrom of repressed truths and unsettling secrets. Mix in Violet, the drugged-up, scathingly acidic matriarch, and you’ve got a major new Broadway play that unflinchingly - and uproariously - exposes the dark side of the Midwestern American family.

Fresh from a thrilling, sold-out run at Chicago's Tony Award-Winning Steppenwolf Theatre, August: Osage County had audiences riveted and critics raving. This thrilling new play by Pulitzer Prize finalist Tracy Letts (Bug, Killer Joe) has been hailed by The New York Times as “hugely entertaining! A ripsnorter full of blistering, funny dialogue, acid-etched characters and scenes of no-holds-barred emotional combat.”

Now New York gets to meet the Westons in the Broadway debut of a major American playwright.

Anna D. Shapiro (The Pain and the Itch) directs the "dazzling good" ensemble in what Variety calls "a deep and highly entertaining work, consistently rich, raw and intense, filled with viciousness and vicious wit."

Creators
Des McAnuff (Direction)
Klara Zieglerova (Scenic Design)
David C. Woolard (Costume Design)
Howell Binkley (Lighting Design)
Walter Trarbach (Sound Design)
Andrew Lippa (Original Music)
Lisa Shriver (Choreography)
Written by: Aaron Sorkin

Starring
Hank Azaria
Jimmi Simpson
Nadia Bowers
Kyle Fabel
Maurice Godin
Christian M Johansen
Bruce McKenzie
Malcom Murano
Spencer Moses
Steve Rosen

Audience:  August, Osage County  is suitable for children aged 12 and over.  Children under 5 years of age will not be admitted to the Music Box Theater

Run time:  3 hours 20 minutes with two 15 minute intermissions

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