The Broadway production of Tracy Letts’ August: Osage County has set a closing date of June 28. Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and five Tony Awards, including Best Play, August will have played 648 performances and 18 previews upon closing. The saga of the dysfunctional Weston clan of Oklahoma opened on December 4, 2007, at the Imperial Theatre and ...

Estelle Parsons will depart the Broadway production of Tracy Letts’ August: Osage County on May 17, one week before Phylicia Rashad assumes the role of matriarch Violet Weston. Understudy Susanne Marley will play the role of Violet beginning May 19, and Rashad will join the cast on May 26. August: Osage County continues its run at the Music Box Theatre ...

Amy Morton is set to rejoin the Broadway cast of August: Osage County. Morton earned a Tony Award nomination for originating the role of beleaguered wife and daughter Barbara Fordham on the Broadway stage. Her first performance is May 26, the same day that previously announced star Phylicia Rashad joins the cast as the malicious matron Violet Weston. August: Osage ...

Veteran actor Michael McGuire has joined the cast of August: Osage County as family patriarch Beverly Weston. The role was created by Dennis Letts father of August playwright Tracy Letts, who died of cancer on February 22. The Broadway production of August: Osage County is currently running at the Imperial Theatre and will move to the Music Box on April ... Read More...

Dennis Letts, who made his Broadway debut earlier this season as the patriarch of son Tracy Letts' acclaimed August: Osage County, died on February 22 of cancer in his home city of Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was 73 years old.

In a statement, Tracy Letts said, "My father was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer in September of last year, following ...

The Broadway production of August: Osage County is moving next door this spring. Tracy Letts' acclaimed drama about a missing patriarch and his wildly dysfunctional family will open at the Music Box Theatre on April 29 after playing its final performance at the Imperial Theatre on April 20. The Broadway production of the musical Billy Elliot is scheduled to give ... Read More...

The Broadway production of Tracy Letts' August: Osage County has announced a five-week extension of its run at the Imperial Theatre, through April 13. The play, which had previously extended for three weeks after the Broadway stagehands strike, had been scheduled to end on March 9. Most of the show's cast members are based in Chicago, where they originated ... Read More...