Letts' Play 'August: Osage County' Opens on Broadway 11/20

According to Variety, Tracy Letts' acclaimed play August: Osage County, previously a hit at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre, will open at the Imperial Theatre on November 20th after beginning previews on October 30th.

"Clocking in at three hours and 20 minutes, Letts' drama follows a family reuniting in rural Oklahoma after the disappearance of their patriarch," states the article.  The play, by the author of Bug and Killer Joe, features a cast of 13 as well as "a three-story house that fills the stage."  Letts was shortlisted in 2004 for a Pulitzer Prize for his The Man from Nebraska.

August: Osage County will be staged on Broadway by Anna D. Shapiro, who directed the play in Chicago.  The Chicago cast, including Deanna Dunagan and Amy Morton, will reprise their roles for the show's New York run.  Jeffrey Richards, Jean Doumanian, Steve Traxler and Jerry Frankel will produce August: Osage County.  According to the article, the "show doesn't look fated to spend more than a year at the Imperial: The theater is skedded to house the New York production of hit London tuner Billy Elliot in fall 2008."

Photo - Tracy Letts