Tracy Letts News

Because of overwhelming demand, Oklahoma City Repertory Theatre is are adding a performance of AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY on Saturday, October 9 at 2:00 pm. At this point there are less than 10 scattered singles left for the originally scheduled four performances. We expect this added performance to quickly sell out! Visit call the Civic Center Music Hall Box Office at 405-297-2264, or call the CityRep Ticket Hotline at 405-848-3761 to purchase tickets.

CityRep is in the enviable position of being one of the first companies in the United States to be given the professional performing rights to the 2008 Pulitzer Prize-winning tragicomedy by Oklahoma playwright Tracy Letts, AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY.

Tracy Letts' Tony Award-winning Oklahoma-set play August: Osage County will make its Oklahoma resident-theatre premiere Oct. 7-10 at Oklahoma City Repertory Theatre.

The Route 66 Theatre Company kicks off its 2010-2011 season with MCMEEKIN FINDS OUT, a new play by Scott T. Barsotti, directed by Damon Kiely. MCMEEKIN FINDS OUT features an all-star cast including Randy Steinmeyer, Kate Buddeke, Blair Robertson, Tyler Ross, Dane Halvorson and Danielle Brothers. MCMEEKIN FINDS OUT plays October 7 - November 14, 2010 in Richard Christiansen Theater, upstairs at the Victory Gardens Biograph Theater, 2433 N. Lincoln Ave. The press opening is Friday, October 15 at 8 pm.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Oklahoma native Tracy Letts featuring Pam Dougherty, Stacey Logan, Jonathan Beck Reed, Michael Jones, and D. Lance Marsh. The production runs October 7-10, 2010, at The Freede Little Theatre in the Civic Center Music Hall.

Kate Mulgrew, who starred as Katherine Hepburn in Tea at Five, one of Hartford Stage's most successful productions of all time, will return to the Tony Award-winning theatre (Michael Wilson, Artistic Director; Michael Stotts, Managing Director) in William Shakespeare's classic play, Antony and Cleopatra. Tina Landau will direct the production, which will run at Hartford Stage October 7 - November 7. Antony and Cleopatra will be the first production in Hartford Stage's renovated and expanded Church Street facility. Construction on the renovation project will take place this summer.

SUPERIOR DONUTS, the fresh-baked tale of friendship and redemption in a Chicago donut dispensary, makes its regional premiere at TheatreWorks, the nationally acclaimed theater of Silicon Valley

Because of overwhelming demand, Oklahoma City Repertory Theatre is are adding a performance of AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY on Saturday, October 9 at 2:00 pm. At this point there are less than 10 scattered singles left for the originally scheduled four performances. We expect this added performance to quickly sell out! Visit call the Civic Center Music Hall Box Office at 405-297-2264, or call the CityRep Ticket Hotline at 405-848-3761 to purchase tickets.

BroadwayWorld.com has learned from a Broadway insider that in talks to join the film alongside Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts are none other than Jack Nicholson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Natalie Portman and Mary Louise Parker. We'll bring you more information as it becomes available.

Deadline.com reports that Julia Roberts and Meryl Streep are in talks to star in the film adaptation of Tracy Lett's Pulitzer Prize and Tony-winning play, August: Osage County. According to the report, both are in final negotiations for the project and production timelines are being set. The team is looking for a start by early summer 2011. John Wells will direct the film, which is being adapted by Letts for the screen.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company is pleased to kick off the public on-sale of its much-anticipated production of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? with the launch of its new iPhone App-now available for free download through the iPhone App Store.

Today we have Part I of the BWW Exclusive two-part InDepth InterView with legendary stage and screen actress - and, bar none, the greatest Tennessee Williams actress alive - Tony-winning star, and a legend in her own time: Elizabeth Ashley! In this first part, we talk her early stage career from TAKE HER, SHE'S MINE directed by George Abbott and produced by Hal Prince in the 60s up to AGNES OF GOD opposite Amanda Plummer and Geraldine Page in the early 80s continuing to Tracy Letts' Pulitzer-prize winning opus AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY in 2007 - to say nothing of the central focus of our extended conversation: her most recent role playing the mother of twin sons named Otto (and/or 'otto') in Edward Albee's newest absurdist masterpiece, ME, MYSELF & I, which can currently be seen at Playrights' Horizons! From the grande dame of Williams, to life with Orson Welles, to living on the road (by choice), and a life in the theatre (no choice), Ms. Ashley is a fabulous, veritable walking, talking history of the American theatre in the last forty years and no one - I repeat, no one - can tell a story better than she can! From Mohammad Ali to Edward Albee, this interview has it all! She is one of the greats, onstage and off. There will never be another Liz Ashley and this first part is just half the reason why!

CityRep is in the enviable position of being one of the first companies in the United States to be given the professional performing rights to the 2008 Pulitzer Prize-winning tragicomedy by Oklahoma playwright Tracy Letts, AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY.

Sydney Theatre Company and The Sydney Morning Herald presents Steppenwolf Theatre Company's AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY by Tracy Letts

Beginning September 23, The Human Race Theatre Company and Wright State University Theatre are engaging in a unique collaboration to present Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize- and Tony-winning comedy/drama masterpiece August: Osage County.

Next Theatre Company is proud to announce the second production in their 2010-2011 What's Next Series with James Andrew Zoccoli's Wiggerlover [white boy + black dad = grey areas directed by Andrea Fears, September 23 - October 2, 927 Noyes Street in Evanston. Zoccoli performs in his semi-autobiographical work telling the story of his desire as a half-Italian, half-Polish to be all black when his white mother gets remarried to an African-American man. Next Theatre also adds ETTY to the roster of the What's Next Series, October 7 - 10. Wiggerlover is performed Thursday at 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. Tickets are $20 with subscriber and student discounts available. Tickets may be purchased at nexttheatre.org or by calling 847-475-1875 x2.

Tracy Letts' masterpiece, August: Osage County, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, multiple Tony awards and accolades around the world, including Time magazine's declaration that it's The Play of the Decade. Now, in its regional premiere, August has accomplished something that never happened before - a collaboration between Dayton's own professional theatre company, The Human Race, and Wright State Theatre on a production at Wright State's Festival Theatre.

The cast of the historic Human Race Theatre Company/Wright State University Theatre Department collaborative production of Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, August: Osage County, is now set. The 13-member ensemble of seven professionals and six WSU students includes two performers who were understudies during the play's five-Tony-winning run on Broadway.

Michael Riedel reports in the New York Post this morning that Al Pacino's star power has earned The Merchant of Venice the winners spot for the fall's highest advance generating show. The production, which opens at the Broadhurst Theatre on November 7, 2010, has reportedly taken in approximately $4M, beating out all incoming fall plays and musicals.

Circuit Playhouse will presents SUPERIOR DONUTS by Tracy Letts through September 19.