Music Box Theater

WINNER OF 5 TONY AWARDS
including Best Play

"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."

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

Creators
Directed by Anna D. Shapiro [Tony Award Winner]
Todd Rosenthal (Set Design) [Tony Award Winner]
Ana Kuzmanic (Costume Design)
Ann Wrightson (Lighting Design)
Richard Woodbury (Sound Design)
Written by: Tracy Letts

Starring
Ian Barford as Little Charles
Deanna Dunagan as Violet Weston [Tony Award Winner]
Kimberly Guerrero as Johnna Monevata
Francis Guinan as Charlie Aitken
Brian Kerwin as Steve Heidebrecht
Michael McGuire as Beverly Weston
Mariann Mayberry as Karen Weston
Amy Morton as Barbara Fordham
Sally Murphy as Ivy Weston
Jeff Perry as Bill Fordham
Rondi Reed as Mattie Fae Gibeau [Tony Award Winner]
Troy West as Sheriff Deon Gibeau

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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