August Coming to Broadway
Tracy Lett’s Oklahoma family drama “August: Osage County,” which has been playing all summer at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago, is coming to Broadway this autumn for a 16-week run.
The production, directed by Anna D. Shapiro, features a spectacular performance by Deanna Dunagan as the family’s acerbic, hard-drinking mother, and some of the most entertaining dialogue since Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America.”
The Letts play (he also wrote “Bug,” which became a surprisingly good, little-seen movie released earlier this year) will land at the Imperial Theatre in New York, which is traditionally a home for musicals. Even a play as well-reviewed as “August” is going to be very hard to sell in that space.
Nevertheless, “August” has just become the frontrunner for the 2008 Tony and Pulitzer prizes.
And you can read Brendan Lemon’s review of “August” from the Financial Times.
