The Old Globe Theatre is to stage Tracy Letts’ award-winning play, August: Osage County. Directed by Obie Award winner Sam Gold, the dark comedy runs in the Old Globe Theatre, May 7-June 12.
One of the most acclaimed plays of the last decade, August: Osage County won the 2008 Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Tracy Letts’ sprawling saga about three generations of an Oklahoma family has drawn comparisons to the work of American dramatists Eugene O’Neill, Sam Shepard and Tennessee Williams.
When their father goes missing, the huge and completely dysfunctional Weston family reunites and sparks fly. Violet, the take-no-prisoners matriarch, struggles for control over a family set to implode over secrets, lies and betrayals.
A large and complex modern-day masterpiece that the New York Times hailed as “flat-out, no asterisks and without qualifications, the most exciting new American play Broadway has seen in years.”
The cast of August: Osage County features Globe Associate Artists Robert Foxworth (Beverly Weston) and Robin Pearson Rose (Mattie Fae Aiken).
Tickets can be purchased online at TheOldGlobe.org, by phone at 619-23-GLOBE or by visiting the box office at 1363 Old Globe Way in Balboa Park.
