Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama

"A tremendous achievement in American playwriting: a tragicomic populist likeness of a tough earth and a tougher people."-Time Out New York

"Tracy Letts' August: Osage County is what O'Neill would be literature in 2007. Letts has recaptured the aristocrats of American drama's mid-century glory days while still creating something entirely original."-New York magazine

One of the most stimulating and vitally applauded theater in latest Broadway history, August: Osage County is a likeness of the dysfunctional American everyday at its finest-and unmodified worst. When the patriarch of the Weston kin disappears one searing summer night, the everyday reunites at the Oklahoma homestead, where long-held secrets are courageously and raucously revealed. The three-act, three-and-a-half-hour colossal of a recreation combines epic tragedy with black comedy, dramatizing three generations of unconvinced dreams and send-off not one of its thirteen lettering unscathed. After its sold-out Chicago premiere, the recreation has electrified audiences in New York since its gap in November 2007.

Tracy Letts is the dramatist of Killer Joe, Bug, and Man from Nebraska, which was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. His theater have been performed throughout the fatherland and internationally. A actor as well as a playwright, Letts is a organ of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, where August: Osage County premiered.

Wonderful read, can't wait to see this! (2008-04-20) The thought of giving up three or more hours to sit in a dark theater can make me depressed. Until something like this comes along! Just finished reading this play and so hope that I can get to NY to see it. I'm so glad this won the Pulitzer and so glad it premiered in Chicago at the Steppenwolf, as this is a play and a theater that truly deserve the recoginition.

AOC is the best new play in years! (2008-04-06) August: Osage County is the best new American play I have seen in years. I saw the production on Broadway with the original cast and I was blown away! The characters are so raw and the humor and heartache so biting. I loved every minute of it and the three hours-plus zipped by in a flash. Anyone who did not like this show has to have their head examined or perhaps they are pretentious blow-hards...My husband and I found it to be absolutely riveting. We would see it again in a heartbeat. And I bought the script just so I could read it and absorb whatever may have been lost during the performance. I highly recommend this show and this script.

Astounding (2008-04-06) August: Osage County, is, quite simply, the best new American play in years. Brilliantly executed, and if you get a chance to see the original cast, brilliantly performed. Letts will most certainly win the Pullitzer mere days from now, and we can all hope that Morton will win the Tony for her amazing performance as Barbera, the eldest daughter of the Weston clan.

The future Pulitizer Prize winner (2008-03-17) This play is without a doubt the best thing on Broadway this season---and it has been a season of brilliant plays. If this doesn't win the Tony and the Pulitzer, there is no jusitce. It reads almost as well as it plays on stage. Get thee to NY and see this gem. If you can't get to NY, then read it NOW!!