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Total Rating: 
***1/2
Previews: 
October 30, 2007
Opened: 
December 4, 2007
Ended: 
June 28, 2009
Country: 
USA
State: 
New York
City: 
New York
Company/Producers: 
Jeffrey Richards, Jean Doumanian, Jerry Frankel, Ostar Productions, Jennifer Manocherian, The Weinstein Co., Debra Black/Daryl Roth, Ronald Frankel/ Marc Frankel / Barbara Freitag, Rich Steiner / Staton Bell Group in assoc w/ Steppenwolf Theater Co.
Theater Type: 
Broadway
Theater: 
Music Box Theater
Theater Address: 
West 45th Street
Running Time: 
3 hrs, 15 min
Genre: 
Drama
Author: 
Tracy Letts
Director: 
Anna D. Shapiro
Review: 

I took another look at Tracy Letts' powerful, award-winning play, August: Osage County to experience this year's cast with Estelle Parsons now playing the mother. It is still a shattering three-and-a-half-hour piece of rural drama. The intricate family melodies in contrapuntal dysfunctional clashings at this family get-together in Oklahoma, make for a wonderfully directed (by Anna D. Shapiro) slice of twisted life with a super ensemble cast. This play, with this cast, with the powerful Johanna Day as the central protagonist and Parsons, one of the most riveting actress you'll ever see, is still the best straight play in New York at this time. The play is long, but the evening is not; both the writing and the acting will hold you.

Cast: 
Guy Boyd (Charlie), John Cullum, Johanna Day, Kimberly Guerrero, Madeleine Martin, Mariann Mayberry, Sally Murphy, Michael Millegan, Frank Wood (Bill), Elizabeth Ashley (Mattie), Estelle Parsons (Violet), Brian Kerwin (Steve), Madeleine Martin (Jean).
Technical: 
Set: Todd Rosenthal; Cost: Ana Kuzmanic; Light: Ann Wrightson; Sound: Richard Woodbury; Orig Music: David Singer; Dramaturg: Edward Sobel; Fight Choreog: Chuck Coyl; Dialects: Cecilie O'Reilly
Critic: 
Richmond Shepard
Date Reviewed: 
March 2009