CitySpecific (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Lin-Manuel Miranda's In the Heights Sarah Ruhl's In the Next Room Rogers & Hammerstein's South Pacific Tracy Letts' Superior Donuts Melissa James Gibson's This Jerome Robbins' West Side Story Carrie Fisher's Wishful Drinking
Flavorwire (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Tracey Letts’ new play Superior Donuts is surprisingly saccharine for the man known for such hard-hitting works as Killer Joe, Bug, and last season’s excellently acerbic family dramedy August: Osage County. If Donuts seems a bit thin, there’s still a lot of sweetness to go around and a nostalgia for a time when we as a society didn’t care about our cholesterol or carbs. It moved...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
When August: Osage County, an astounding large-scale familial drama burst on Broadway, it trumpeting the arrival of Tracy Letts, who won the Pulitzer Prize. By...
Sophia Sadoughi (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Performing in Toronto’s Canon Theatre Nov. 5 - Nov. 15. via : AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY is about a father who disappears. A mother caught in the grip of addiction. A marriage unraveling, and a family approaching total meltdown. And as The New York Post says, it’s all “ENORMOUSLY ENTERTAINING!” This is the kind of theater event you’ll talk about for months…and remember...
Torontoist (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Photo by Robert J. Saferstein. It's only on for the rest of the week, so you'll have to hurry, but as far as seeing theatre in this town goes, getting tickets to August: Osage County is about the best favour you could do yourself this year. The Pulitzer Prize–winning Steppenwolf production—coming to us by way of sold-out runs in Chicago, Broadway, and the West End—brings Oscar-winner...
The Watcher (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Chicago actor Chelcie Ross has his share of memorable moments in film and onstage. Last year, for example, the actor spent several months in London when he appeared in the National Theatre’s production of "August: Osage County,” a play by Steppenwolf Theatre ensemble member Tracy Letts. "Full houses every night. It was an actor’s dream come true — 'OK, Lord, take me...
The Observer (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
The London theatre celebrates 11 nominations thanks largely to the success of Enron and Jerusalem The Royal Court dominates this year's Evening Standard theatre awards shortlist, announced today, with 11 of its productions or performers going head to head in major categories including best play, best director and best actor. By comparison, the National Theatre, the Young Vic and the Lyric Hammersmith...
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Tracy Letts's delightfully dysfunctional family lands in Toronto
The Theater Loop (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn made a late-night appearance Thursday at an event in honor of the first birthday of "Million Dollar Quartet," a Chicago rock 'n' roll musical the Illinois governor has seen twice already. "I support the cause" the...
The Theater Loop (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Tracy Letts has a lot of interesting things to say in this interview with Toronto theater critic J. Kelly Nestruck.
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
More from a conversation with the celebrated American playwright
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
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The Wicked Stage (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Time is tight, to quote Booker T and the MGs. A quick glance around the Internets: Simonized: Proof again why Playgoer is indispensable ; a good take from the LA Times ; and an uncharacteristic aside from Broadwaystars' aggregator. The Nov. issue of American Theatre is out, with pieces on Ivo van Hove, Ten Chimneys, Faye Armon, Victor Lodato, and the gender gap. And this is new: for a few online stories...
ATW - Downstage Center (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
"Superior Donuts" and "August: Osage County" playwright Tracy Letts. talks about writing "Donuts" as his first "Chicago" play in homage to his adopted home city. He also discusses his childhood with his mother and father, college professors who would forge second careers as novelist and actor respectively; his own dual career as actor and playwright and why he...
Gratuitous Violins (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Gratuitous Violins rating: **** out of **** If August: Osage County examined the tangled relationships among family members then Tracy Letts ' new Broadway play, Superior Donuts , tackles an equally complex subject - how we relate to each other as a community, as individuals, as Americans. Like its Tony and Pulitzer-winning predecessor, Superior Donuts arrives in New York from the Steppenwolf Theatre...
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