Tracy Letts News

The Weathervane production of AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY is a well conceived community theatre level staging and well worth the drive to Akron.

The Weston family has the uncanny ability of making each other absolutely miserable.

Atlantic Theater Company has announced the two final productions of its 2012-2013 season.

Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director; Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director) has just announced the two final productions of its 2012-2013 season.

Theatre Exile will present the first show of their 16th season with the Philadelphia premiere of The Edge of Our Bodies by Adam Rapp.

Seattle Public Theater (SPT) opens its 2012-2013 season with the Seattle Premiere of Pulitzer-prize winning playwright Tracy Letts' urban comedy-drama Superior Donuts running September 28-October 21, 2012 at the historic Bathhouse Theater on Green Lake.

Though the heat is still stifling in the Des Moines area, several area theater companies will be ringing in the fall theater season and kicking off their 2012-2013 season this month.

In honor of its 50th anniversary return to Broadway this fall there was be a special Box Office Opening Celebration at the Booth Theatre. Tickets for all preview performances were available for a special price of $50. The first 25 participants in line when the box office opens received a signed copy of the script by three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee. BroadwayWorld was there for the event this morning, and we bring you photos below!

Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? will begin rehearsals on September 4, 2012, in Chicago at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, where this production originally began in December 2010. Previews will begin on September 27, 2012, at the Booth Theatre (222 West 45th Street) on Broadway with an official opening on Saturday, October 13, 2012, exactly 50 years to the day of the play's original Broadway opening on Saturday, October 13, 1962. Tickets can be purchased at Telecharge.com or by calling (212) 239-6200.

According to Variety, playwright Sam Shepard is in talks to play Beverly Weston in the film adaptation of Tracy Letts' play August: Osage County, directed by John Wells.

Fells Point Corner Theatre's announces its 2012-2013 season, featuring Stop Kiss, A Behanding in Spokane, Love, Loss and What I Wore, Superior Donuts, Lone Star/Laundry & Bourbon, Les Belles Soeurs, the 10-minute play festival 10x10, and Glengarry Glen Ross! Full details below.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Benedict Cumberbatch will join the cast of the film adaptation of Tracy Letts' AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY, alongside Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts.

The Purple Rose Theatre Company kicks off its 2012 / 2013 Season with Superior Donuts by Tracy Letts. The production will enjoy a 13-week engagement from Thursday, September 20 - Saturday, December 15, 2012.

Capital T Theatre presents Exit, Pursued by a Bear by Lauren Gunderson, directed by Mark Pickell and starring Joey Hood, Molly Karrasch, Stephen Mercantel and Indigo Rael, August 16-September 8, 2012.

A Red Orchid Theatre's (AROT) Board of Trustees and Gala Committee, together with Rockit Ranch Productions, proudly announces the 2012 A Red Orchid Gala.The 2012 Gala will celebrate 20 years of creating exceptional, ensemble-based theater in Chicago.

Producers announced today that the box office at the Cort Theatre (138 West 48th Street) is open for business in anticipation of its new tenant: the Broadway Premiere of Grace, the acclaimed dark comedy written by award-winning writer Craig Wright (Mistakes Were Made, Recent Tragic Events, "Six Feet Under") and directed by Dexter Bullard (Tracy Letts' BUG).

The cast of Broadway's GRACE-Ed Asner, Kate Arrington, Paul Rudd and Michael Shannon -met the press at Grace Hotel yesterday, August 21, 2012, in New York City. BroadwayWorld brings you full photo coverage from the event below!

The cast of Broadway's GRACE-Ed Asner, Kate Arrington, Paul Rudd and Michael Shannon-along with director Dexter Bullard, met the press at Grace Hotel yesterday, August 21, 2012, in New York City. BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge was there and brings you interviews with Bullard and the cast, in which they speak about the challenges of a script that plays with time, getting into character, and more. Watch the video below!

The cast of Broadway's GRACE-Ed Asner, Kate Arrington, Paul Rudd and Michael Shannon -met the press at Grace Hotel today, August 21, 2012, in New York City. Scroll down for a out a photo of the group at the event, and check back later for BroadwayWorld's full coverage!

For its 14th season of never playing it safe, Custom Made Theatre Company announces a line-up of eye-opening and audacious plays. Three are San Francisco Premieres, and one is a Bay Area Premiere.