Music Box Theatre, 239 W 45th St between Broadway and Eighth Ave. (212-239-6200, steppenwolf.org). Playwright Tracy Letts. Dir Tina Landau. With Michael McKean. 2hrs 15mins. One intermission.
Tickets $76.50–$116.50. Previews Sept 22; opens Oct 4. Tue 7pm; Wed 2, 8pm; Thu, Fri 8pm; Sat 2, 8pm; Sun 3pm.
After winning every award in sight for August: Osage County, how does playwright Tracy Letts follow up? With a new one, silly! But this is smaller scale. Michael McKean is the sad-sack proprietor of a slummy Chicago doughnut shop assailed by gentrification.—David Cote
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