Topic: Tracy Letts
No one, to my knowledge, has accused Superior Donuts of being superior Tracy Letts. Those honors usually go to August: Osage County, Killer Joe, or...
Cynthia Stafford's Gifted Day at the Geffen. . LA philanthropist hosts an inspirational day at the Geffen Playhouse for students from Partnership...
With Felix and Oscar sparring a few blocks away at Theater J, and a distaff odd couple holding forth across the Potomac in Signature's Walter Cronkite Is Dead, Tracy Letts' Superior Donuts offers local audiences a slightly hipper version of the ...
Playwrights rarely focus on healthy, self-actualized people because, well, that would probably be boring. The lauded Chicago import Graceland-which feels more like a Sundance semi-finalist than something that needs to be on a stage-marks Ellen Fairey's New York debut. Fortyish Sara ...
You'll have heard by now that in August: Osage County, Tracy Letts has set a rip-snorting, fire-breathing matriarchal monster to spewing venom with the same relish Martha brought to spitting invective in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? What you may ...
Letts was raised in Durant, Okla., the home of Southeastern Oklahoma State University. Inspired by his father's work in community theatre, Letts pursued a career in acting. It premiered in London and later ran in New York; in 2006 the movie ...
Tracy Letts' 'Superior Donuts' set for a Broadway engagement this fallPlaywright Tracy Letts will be back on Broadway next season.Producer Jeffrey Richards says the author of the Tony-winning " Osage (OH'-sage) County" will return to New York with a new play ...
Running more than three hours, with a tri-generational cast dispersed throughout a three-tiered set spinning out at least a dozen story lines, Tracy Letts's August: a tragicomic populist portrait of a tough land and its tougher people.. Although we'll leave ...
Not since the 1891 English premiere of Ibsen's Ghosts, with its cryptic talk of syphilis, incest and assisted suicide, has there been a family reunion play more crowded with sensational incident than Tracy Letts's August: Chicago's famous Steppenwolf company ...
It was hailed as the most exciting American play to open on Broadway in years, and later this month National Theatre audiences will see what the fuss was all about. Next up will be the movie, after the Weinstein Company yesterday announced ...