August: Osage County
Prices
Tickets: $26.50–$176.50
Description
Tracy Letts’s scorchingly funny play is the dysfunctional-family drama supersized: a hideous, bulging scrapbook of misery, grudge-holding and poisoned heritage. The work’s three acts possess the heft and weave of lifetimes, but are leavened by the author’s dark humor and fondness for pulpy flourishes. The result is a tremendous achievement in American playwriting, a tragicomic populist portrait of a tough land and its tougher people. Deanna Dunagan is delectably bilious as the drug-addled, splenetic matriarch. And the entire Steppenwolf Theatre Company cast shines in Anna D. Shapiro’s whip-smart, rollicking production. Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.—David Cote
When
Apr 20 2008 3pm