2016 Play Reading Series to Close with Pulitzer Prize-Winning and Tony Award-Winning Masterpiece Drama

The Little Theatre of Manchester will close its 2016 Evenings@7 Playreading Series with the winner of five TONY® Awards & the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, August: Osage County by Tracy Letts.

A staged reading of August: Osage County will be at 7:00 p.m. on November 15, 2016, in the Silk Room at Cheney Hall, 177 Hartford Road in Manchester. The event is free, although donations to support this type of work are gladly accepted.

Brutal and hilarious, August: Osage County features a vanished father, a pill-popping mother, and 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. With rich insight and brilliant humor, Letts paints a vivid portrait of a Midwestern American family.

Produced and directed by Little Theatre member Linda Ferreira, August: Osage County features LTM favorites Mike Zizka as Beverly Weston and Debi Freund as the drugged-up, scathingly acidic matriarch, Violet Weston. Additional cast members include Dawn Maselli, Mitch Hess, Hunter Woodruff, Trish Urso, Jill Luberto, Angela Dias, Randy Boyd, Rodney K, ElizaBeth Reynolds, Shawn Procuniar and Scott "Woody" Woodruff.

For more information regarding August: Osage County or the Evenings@7 series, call the Box Office at 860-647-9824.

About Evenings@7

Evenings@7 offers FREE presentations of intimate script-in-hand play readings. Open to the public, these ONE-NIGHT ONLY performances are part of Little Theatre's mission to develop art and artists. This series, featuring both established plays and musicals and new works, enables local talent to grow in their craft by performing for live audiences in a casual atmosphere with minimal production elements.

The 2017 Evenings@7 series will be announced in January 2017.

About Little Theatre of Manchester

The Little Theatre of Manchester (LTM) was founded in 1960 for the purpose of producing community theater. Since its inception, LTM's volunteers have put on more than 650 quality performances that have been well-received and applauded by various members of the community. In the 1980s, the Little Theatre worked with the Town of Manchester in restoring Cheney Hall. In 1991, the extensive, award-winning restoration was completed and the state's oldest operating theater became the theatrical residence of the Little Theatre of Manchester. Today, programming is comprised of five main-stage theatre productions, numerous concerts, special events, and a range of other cultural, business, civic, and private functions. The Little Theatre is proud to serve a growing, annual audience of approximately 10,000.

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