Theatre Arts: August: Osage County, March 2019

August:  Osage County

 will be performed at Price Theatre on

Wednesday, March 20, 2019, at 7:00 p.m.

Thursday, March 21, 2019, at 7:00 p.m.

Friday, March 22, 2019, at 7:00 p.m.

Saturday, March 23, 2019, at 7:00 p.m.

Sunday, March 24, 2019, at 2:30 p.m.

Tracy Letts’s comedy-drama August:  Osage County opened on Broadway in December 2007, and ran for 648 performances, winning the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

• You’ll find the script of August:  Osage County on the lower level of Lewis Library (call number PS3612 .E887 A75 2008, Theatre Communication Groups edition; PS3612 .E887 A75 2009, Dramatist’s Play Service edition; also available as an e-book)
• Letts’s play Superior Donuts is also available as an e-book
• There’s an abridged version of August:  Osage County, and an essay, in The Best Plays Theater Yearbook 2007-2008 (call number PN6112 .B47 2007-08)

There’s a biography of Tracy Letts in Current Biography 2008, in the reference section on the main level of Lewis Library (call number REF CT 100 .C8 2008, pages 308-312).

For articles on Letts and the play, try the International Bibliography of Theater and Dance database.  This database includes several interviews with Letts:

• “Life after ‘August.’”  American Theatre 33.3 (March 2016), pp. 44-47
• “’Osage County’ Meeting.”  Back Stage West 15.23 (Jun. 5, 2008), pp. 1-11
• “Tracy Letts:  No Place Like Home.”  American Theatre 24.6 (July-Aug. 2007), pp. 42-45