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Winner of the 2008 Tony Award for Best Play, Tracy Letts’ darkly comic epic offers a painfully funny look at a family struggling in the desolate heart of America.
This is an L.A. Theatre Works full-cast recording, featuring members of the original Steppenwolf Theatre and Broadway productions: Tara Lynne Barr, Shannon Cochran, Deanna Dunagan (Tony Award, Best Leading Actress), Kimberly Guerrero, Francis Guinan, Scott Jaeck, Ron Livingston, Robert Maffia, Mariann Mayberry, Rondi Reed (Tony Award, Best Featured Actress), and David Warshofsky.
August: Osage County was directed by Bart DeLorenzo and recorded by L.A. Theatre Works before a live audience.
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“Drawing from the original 2008 Tony Award-winningcast—including Deanna Dunagan (Best Leading Actress), Jeff Perry (from TV’s Scandal), and Steppenwolf Theatre favorite Rondi Reed—thislive-performance audio adaptation combines the intensity of Tennessee Williamswith the pace and timing of the best in television comedy. The audiencelaughter is real and heartfelt as the cast members find the humor and nuance inevery taboo subject—from drugs to adultery to divorce. Outrageously funny,foul (adult language), and touching.”
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“Best American drama of the past decade.”
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“Sensationally entertaining…Tracy Letts’ fiercely funny, turbo-charged tragicomedy is, flat-out, no asterisks and without qualifications, the most exciting new American play Broadway has seen in years.”
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“A tremendous achievement in American playwriting: a tragicomic populist portrait of a tough land and a tougher people.”
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“Tracy Letts’ August: Osage County is what O’Neill would be writing in 2007. Letts has recaptured the nobility of American drama’s mid-century heyday while still creating something entirely original.”
— New York magazine
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Winner of the 2008 Tony Award for Best Play
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A Pulitzer Prize–winning play
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About Tracy Letts
Tracy Letts is the only person to win both a Tony Award for acting and a Pulitzer Prize. He is the author of Killer Joe, Bug, Man from Nebraska (Pulitzer finalist), August: Osage County (Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for Best Play), Superior Donuts, and a new version of Chekhov’s Three Sisters. He also wrote the screenplay for the film August: Osage County, starring Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts. He won the 2013 Tony Award for best leading actor in a play for his debut Broadway performance as George in the Tony Award winning revival of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? which premiered at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre. He joined the Steppenwolf ensemble in 2002, where he has appeared in many productions. Letts is also well known for role as Senator Andrew Lockhart on Homeland.