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 29.
McGuire plays a central figure in this three-act family drama about an extended clan that comes together at their rural Oklahoma homestead when his character disappears. Forced to confront unspoken truths and astonishing secrets, the family must also contend with Beverly's wife, Violet Deanna Dunagan, a pill-popping woman at the center of the storm.
McGuire received the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards for his ensemble appearance in the original 1972 production of That Championship Season. His other Broadway credits include Hay Fever and Child's Play. Off-Broadway, he has appeared in Whistle in the Dark, Baal, The Cannibals, Pictures in the Hallway and played the title role in Macbeth. A constant presence in L.A. theater, he has been the recipient of one L.A. Weekly Award and Six Drama-Logue Awards.
August: Osage County, directed by Anna D. Shapiro, continues to star Ian Barford, Deanna Dunagan, Kimberly Guerrero, Francis Guinan, Brian Kerwin, Madeleine Martin, Mariann Mayberry, Amy Morton, Sally Murphy, Jeff Perry, Rondi Reed and Troy West.
