Tracy Lett’s 2008 Tony Award and
Pulitzer Prize Winning Play August:
Osage County
at AT&T Performing Arts Center January 12 to 24
edited by Madelyn Miller, the TravelLady
The AT&T Performing Arts Center’s Lexus Broadway Series announced casting
for the Dallas engagement of AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY, starring Academy Award
Winner, Estelle Parsons. This winner of multiple Tony Awards to play the
Winspear Opera House in Dallas, AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY from Tuesday, January
12, 2010 through Sunday, January 24, 2010 for a strictly limited run of only
16 performances.
August: Osage County, the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play,
tells the bitingly funny and sensationally entertaining tale of the Weston
family of Pawhuska, Oklahoma.
Starring Academy Award Winner Estelle Parsons
 The
play stars Academy Award-winner Estelle Parsons in the role of the family
matriarch, Violet. Ms. Parsons
played Violet in the Broadway production of August: Osage County from June
2008-May 2009, where The New York Times raved, “Estelle Parsons gives a
superb performance…sends chills down your spine. It may prove to be a
crowning moment in an illustrious career."
Jpg 2 Joining Ms. Parsons are Shannon Cochran as Barbara Fordham, Jon
DeVries as Beverly Weston, Libby George as Mattie Fae Aiken, Stephen Riley
Key as Little Charles, Emily Kinney as Jean Fordham, Laurence Lau as Steve
Heidebrecht, Marcus Nelson as Sheriff Deon Gilbeau and understudying Bill
and Steve, Paul Vincent O’Connor as Charlie Aiken, Jeff Still as Bill
Fordham, DeLanna Studi as Johnna Monevata, Angelica Torn as Ivy Weston, Amy
Warren as Karen Weston, Avia Bushyhead, understudying Johnna, Jean, Ivy and
Karen, Stephen D’Ambrose, understudying Beverly and Charlie, Barbara
Kingsley, understudying Violet and Mattie Fae, Bryn Magnus, understudying
Little Charles and the Sherriff and Kim Martin-Cotten, understudying
Barbara, Karen and Ivy.
Written by 2008 Pulitzer Prize-winner Tracy Letts (Superior Donuts, Man From
Nebraska, Killer Joe, Bug), this grand and gripping new play tells the story
of the Westons, a large extended clan that comes together at their rural
Oklahoma homestead after the alcoholic patriarch disappears. Forced to
confront unspoken truths and astonishing secrets, the family must also
contend with Violet, a pill-popping, deeply unsettled woman at the center of
the storm.
Directed by 2008 Tony Award-winner Anna D. Shapiro, August: Osage County is
a rare theatrical event: a large-scale work filled with 13 unforgettable
characters, a powerful tragicomedy told with unflinching honesty and the
unforgettable breakthrough of a major American playwright. August: Osage
County premiered and was produced at Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago
in 2007.
Nominated for seven Tony Awards and winning five, including Tony Awards for
Best Play and Best Director, along with Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and
New York Drama Critics Circle Awards, including Best Play, Best Director and
Best Scenic Design, August: Osage County opened at the Imperial Theatre
Broadway on December 4, 2007, to wide critical acclaim. The New York Times
called August: Osage County “The most exciting new American play Broadway
has seen in years,” and it was voted The #1 Play of the Year by Time, The
Associated Press, Entertainment Weekly, and TimeOut New York.
 After
a sold-out engagement at the Imperial Theatre, the show re-opened at the
Music Box Theatre on April 29th, 2008. August: Osage County closed on
Broadway on June 28, 2009 after 648 performances and 18 previews, surpassing
The Heidi Chronicles, Master Class, The Real Thing, and Doubt, among many
others, to become one of the longest running plays in Broadway history. The
show, which the London critics hailed as “the must-see play of the year -
possibly a lifetime,” opened to rave reviews at The National Theatre on
November 26, 2008, where it played a limited eight-week engagement featuring
members of the original Broadway company. The London production was
nominated for four Olivier Awards, winning one (Best Scenic Design).
The show’s creative team includes Tony Award winner Todd Rosenthal (sets),
Ana Kuzmanic (costumes), Ann G. Wrightson (lights), Richard Woodbury (sound)
and David Singer (original music).
August: Osage County is produced by Jeffrey Richards, Jean Doumanian, Steve
Traxler and Jerry Frankel.
Tickets can be purchased at www.attpac.org, by phone at (214) 880-0202, at
the Winspear Opera House Box Office, or at the remote Box Office at Park
Place Lexus Plano at 1025 Preston Road.
Ticket prices range from $25.00 to $150.00.
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