NTC Stages the Much-Awarded Drama AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY

Theater Company completes its successful 2016- 2017 season with Tracy Letts' August: Osage County, a drama that scored a rare trifecta, winning a Tony, a Drama Desk Award, and the 2008 Pulitzer Prize of Drama. The NTC production is directed by Terry McGovern and Nan Ayers. It is produced by Kim Bromley and Sandy Lelich. August: Osage County runs May 19-June 4 at the NTC Playhouse, 5420 Nave Drive in.

After the disappearance of their father, the adult daughters of Beverly and Violet Weston return to their Pawhuska, Oklahoma family home along with their spouses, children, boyfriends and assorted kin to rally around their narcotic addicted mother, Violet. Obvious truths and long held secrets shape a family reunion that would make Tennessee Williams cringe.

Cast - August: Osage County

(with home cities)

Beverly - William Peden (Mill Valley)

Violet - Shirley Hall (Novato)

Johnna - Cindy Calderon (Tiburon)

Mattie Fae - Sandi Weldon (Fairfax)

Ivy - Stacey Anderson (Fairfax)

Charlie - Eugene de Christopher (Richmond)

Barbara - Heather Shepardson (San Rafael)

Bill - Ken Bacon (Novato)

Jean - Caitlin Strom-Martin (Sebastopol)

Sheriff Gilbeau - Jeffrey Taylor (Novato)

Karen - Miriam Ani (Oakland)

Steve - Montgomery Paulsen (Oakland)

Little Charles - Jesse Lumb (Faifax)

Production Team

Director - Terry McGovern (Petaluma)

Assistant Director - Nan Ayers (Richmond )

Co-Producer - Kim Bromley (Novato )

Co-Producer - Sandra Lelich (Mill Valley)

Set Design and Build - Eugene de Christopher (Richmond) & Sandra Lelich (Mill Valley )

Properties Manager - Mary Weinberg (San Rafael)

Asst. Prop Manager - Lynda Sherida n (Mill Valley )

Stage Manager - Diane Pickel-Gore (Novato)

Lighting - Bill Weinberg (San Rafael)

Sound- Rick Banghart (Novato)

Writer Tracy Letts

Tracy Letts is an award-winning writer for both stage and screen, as well as a successful actor. In 2008, Letts won a Tony Award, a Drama Desk Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for August: Osage County. It had premiered in Chicago in 2007, before moving to New York. It opened on Broadway in 2007 and ran into 2009. In 2004, Letts was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play, Man from Nebraska. For his screenplay of Killer Joe, Letts was nominated for a Saturn Award for "Best Writing." In 2012-2013, Letts appeared in the 50th Anniversary Broadway revival of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, as originally presented by the Steppenwolf Theater Company. On June 9, 2013, he received the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play for his performance as George in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? In 2013, Letts was nominated, along with the rest of the cast of Showtime's Homeland, for an "Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series" Screen Actors Guild Award. Letts' mother Billie Letts, also a writer, has said of his work, "I try to be upbeat and funny. Everybody in Tracy's stories gets naked or dead." Letts' plays have been about people struggling with moral and spiritual questions. He says he was inspired by the plays of Tennessee Williams and the novels of William Faulkner and Jim Thompson.

CURTAIN TIMES AND TICKETS

Venue: NTC Playhouse, 5420 Nave Dr., Novato 94949

Preview: Thursday, May 18 at 7:00 pm

Opens: Friday, May 19 at 7:30 pm

Runs: Fridays and Saturdays: 7:30 pm; Sundays: 2:00 pm, through June 4.

Running Time: 3 hours, with 2 intermissions

Tickets: $27 Adults, $21 NTC Members and Subscribers, $24 Seniors/Students, $12 Children 12 and under, $15 Preview. Online ticketing at www.novatotheatercompany.org; call (415) 883-4498 for questions/information only. Theater box office now accepts touchless payment, credit and debit cards. Open Seating • Free Parking • ADA Compliant

Osage County. Tracy Letts' Tony Award-winning drama about a family gathering after the patriarch's strange disappearance. Obvious truths and long held secrets shape a reunion that would make Tennessee Williams cringe. Produced by Novato Theater Co. Directed by Terry McGovern and Nan Ayres . NTC Playhouse, 5420 Nave Drive, Novato. May 19-June 44. Fri-Sat 7:30 pm; Sundays2:00 pm. One preview, May 18 at 7:00 pm. Tickets $12-27 at www.novatotheatercompany.org; (415) 883-4498 for information only.

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