AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY Opens CityRep's Ninth Season 10/7

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. And, we're using the opportunity to open our Ninth Season in the Civic Center Music Hall. Read on to find out more about this once-in-a-lifetime theatrical experience!

AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY
Oklahoma City Repertory Theatre (CityRep) opens their Ninth Season with AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY, the Pulizer Prize-winning tragicomedy by Oklahoma playwright Tracy Letts. In addition to the Pulizter Prize, AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY also won the Tony, Drama Desk, Drama League and Outer Critircs Circle awards for Best Play, and was named BEST PLAY OF THE DECADE by Entertainment Weekly. CityRep is honored to be one of the first companies in the United States awarded the professional performance rights.

A vanished father. A pill-popping mother. Three sisters with shady little secrets. When the large Weston family unexpectedly reunites after Dad's disappearance at the Oklahoman homestead, a maelstrom of repressed truths and unsettling secrets erupt. Mix in a touch of Voilet, the drugged-up, scathingly acid matriarch, and you have a major , new play that unflinchingly-and uproariously-exposes the dar side of an Oklahoma family.

Featured in the CityRep production is Pam Dougherty as Violet and Stacey Logan as daughter, Barbara. Ms. Dougherty last appeared with CityRep as Judith Bliss in HAY FEVER, and was called "the best actress of her generation" by the DALLAS MORNING NEWS. Ms. Logan played Hayley Walker in CityRep's production of BAD DATES, and appeared in the original Broadway companies of SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS as Rita, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST as Babette, BIG as Abigail, and in Hal Prince's CANDIDE as Paquette. Also appearing are Ruth Charnay, Brooke Culbertson, Sarah dAngelo, Ben Hall, Cindy Hanska, Michael Jones, Rick Allen Lippert, D. Lance Marsh, Craig Pruitt, Jonathan Beck Reed, and Kris Schinske.
Guest Artist René Moreno, who directed the CityRep production of ZOMBIE PROM, will direct AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY. Scenic Design is by Ben Hall, Ligting Design by Tristan Decker, Costume Design by Aaron Patrick Turner, Sound Design by Steve Emerson, and Properties by Josh Cain.

AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY will play in the Freede Little Theatre at the Civic Center Music Hall at 201 N. Walker in downtown Oklahoma City. Previews begin on Thursday, October 7 at 8:00 pm. The Opening Night is Saturday, October 9 at 8:00 pm, with the final performance on Sunday, October 10 at 2:00 pm.

Tickets are $8 (Student Rush Tickets), $15 (groups of ten or more), $25 (matinees) and $30 (evening performances), and may be purchased by calling the CityRep Ticket Hotline at 405-848-3761, the Civic Center Music Hall Box Office at 1.800.364.7111 or 405.297.2264. Tickets may be purchased online through the CityRep website at www.cityrep.com, or through the Civic Center Music Hall Box Office website at www.okcciviccenter.org. AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY is supported by Season Sponsors the Oklahoma Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:

ONE WEEK ONLY!

Thurs., Oct. 7, 2010 8:00 pm Preview Performance

Fri,, Oct. 8, 2010 8:00 pm Preview Performance

Sat., Oct. 9, 2010 8:00 pm Opening Night

Sun., Oct. 10, 2010 2:00 pm Closing Performance

CityRep (Oklahoma City Repertory Theatre), under the leadership of Founding Artistic Director Donald Jordan, is one of only two Equity professional theatre companies in the state of Oklahoma, and as such provides a vital service to our community by presenting programming that is reflected in major arts communities around the country-and to our Oklahoma professional theatre artists by providing an Oklahoma venue for employment and an artistic home. CityRep operates under an agreement with Actors' Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States.

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