Things get intense in Vex's 'August'
Tracy Letts' “August: Osage County” is a long play — three acts long, to be precise. And there's not a wasted syllable in it, said Paul Fillingim. “Every word says something,” said Fillingim, who is...
View ArticleSHOWCASE: All in the family
All over the world, the basic unit of society — the family —has undergone tremendous change. The dynamics between family members, the nature of relationships and the problems surrounding the unit have...
View ArticleDeliciously dysfunctional
August Osage (English Play) 8 pm | Prakash Auditorium AHMEDABAD: Of dysfunctional, unhappy and quarrelling families, you've heard a lot. But a family that — with all its complex issues, never-ending...
View ArticleA claasy act at Times Ahmedabad Festival
A story with layers is always alluring. When you witness a story like that unfolding before you on the stage, the experience is always soul-stirring. On the fifth day of the Times Ahmedabad Festival,...
View ArticleTheatre fest from Jan 9
LUCKNOW: Eminent theatre personalities like Lillette Dubey, Anant Mahadevan, Makrand Deshpande, Sunil Shanbag and Soni Razdan will...
View ArticleAugust: Osage County at Cinema Arts Festival Goes From Darkly Funny to Just...
There's a story, possibly apocryphal, that someone once asked the American playwright and actor Sam Shepard why he always writes about family, to which he replied, "What else is there?" This notion of...
View ArticleAugust: Osage County Starring Meryl Streep & Julia Roberts: 5 Things You...
No skeleton is left in the closet—and no scenery is left unchewed—in this dish-smashing drama about a dysfunctional family, the Westons, in rural Oklahoma. When the Weston patriarch (Sam Shepard) goes...
View Article"August: Osage County" Serves Up Stellar Acting and Awkward Family Moments
The holidays mean, for most people, spending time with the family and having awkward family dinners. Despite how dysfunctional your family seems, one look at the Weston family might just make you...
View ArticleThe Singularity of August: Osage County
If one of the major themes of this year's film awards contenders is the "lone survivor" (to invoke the title of the most recent movie about a stranded protagonist, after All Is Lost, Captain Phillips...
View ArticleMovie review: 'August: Osage County'
John Wells' screen version of “August: Osage County,” Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning play, is a domestic horror film, a worst-case scenario for a family reunion that can turn from nasty laughter...
View ArticleMOVIE REVIEW: ‘August: Osage County’
Facebook Follow @washtimes Will Chris Christie's bridge scandal significantly hurt his chances for a 2016 presidential run? Login to Vote View results Family dysfunction can be so entertaining — when...
View Article'August: Osage County': Fine acting sparks emotionally wrenching film
"August: Osage County" is an emotionally brutal look at one of the most dysfunctional families to hit the big screen in years. Just like coming across a car wreck, there's something so compelling about...
View ArticleStreep and Roberts shine in 'August: Osage County' despite the film's flaws
Playwright Tracy Letts garnered a Pulitzer Prize for “August: Osage County,” which first hit Broadway in 2007 with actress Deanna Dunagan in the lead role of Violet, the 65-year-old, boozing,...
View ArticleStrengths, flaws follow ‘August: Osage County’ to the big screen
Updated: January 13, 2014 8:14PM Something in the zeitgeist grabbed hold of Tracy Letts’ “August: Osage County” when it received its world premiere at Steppenwolf Theatre in June 2007 and triggered...
View Article‘August: Osage County’ review: Stagey adaptation delivers an acting masterclass
The bottom line with “August: Osage County” is simple. The film, which stars Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, with a supporting roster made up of no lesser talents than Benedict Cumberbatch, Margo...
View ArticleLillete Dubey directs Girish Karnad’s play
Girish Karnad's 'Boiled Beans On Toast', directed by Lillete Dubey, showcases a contemporary view of Bangalore. The original...
View Article'August: Osage County' is Broadway's suprise hit
Mariann Mayberry, Brian Kerwin, and Madeleine Martin star in 'August: Osage County,' the new Broadway season's first must-see play, at the Imperial Theatre through March 9. (Newsday / Ari Mintz /...
View ArticleStudi moral center of 'August: Osage County'
DeLanna Studi found her way to the room at the top of the Weston home in "August: Osage County" through what she only half-jokingly describes as "an act of God.""Well, the grace of God and the help of...
View ArticleA serendipitous mini-festival highlights playwright Letts’ skill at...
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. - Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina. How’s this for an unhappy family? Dad drinks, numbing the daily pain of his wife’s tirades...
View Article'August: Osage County' ignites Broadway
NEW YORK—Tracy Letts' soul never strays too far from the Midwest. Born and raised in southern Oklahoma, the playwright made it to New York by way of Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company. And he's set...
View ArticleThe dream is dry in Osage County
No, Oklahoma is not OK in Tracy Letts' jaundiced update of American exceptionalism, "August: Osage County." The playwright uses tumbleweed heat to roast cherished notions of family and optimism. The...
View ArticleReview: 'August: Osage County' blows the doors off the closet, and skeletons...
Theater review | The ghosts of many other plays hover over the 2008 Pulitzer Prize-winning "August: Osage County." This searing, explosive (and Tony-winning) tragicomedy by Tracy Letts is making its...
View ArticleIn August company
It's not bubblegum that you chew and spit out," says Indian actress Lilette Dubey (top left) as she explained the complexities behind her English language play August: Osage County. The...
View ArticleWASP family paradigm shattered in August : Osage County
Tracy Letts is a curious playwright and August : Osage County is a strange, oddly satisfying saga. Like a train wreck with punch lines. Perhaps, if we look carefully enough, most families come closer...
View ArticleWe are a nautanki family: Lilette Dubey
SHARE AND DISCUSSTweetLilette Dubey and Ira We are a nautanki Family, say Lilette Dubey and daughter, Ira Dubey who were in town to stage two plays Hyderabadi Connection Lilette: I have been coming...
View ArticlePulitzer, Tony Award winning play written by state native Tracy Letts to...
When "August: Osage County" won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for drama, Tracy Letts became the first Oklahoman to be honored in that category's 90-year history. The win also placed Letts in the rarefied...
View ArticleIt's official: Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts to star in 'August: Osage...
Osage County is about to welcome two new high-profile residents: Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts. The Weinstein Company confirmed today that, after being in talks with the Oscar-winning actresses for...
View ArticleOnce more, Lillete
A play should work fine with minimal sets and one light. That is among the basic tenets Lillete Dubey follows in most of her productions. “I believe in keeping things real. I always look for the inner...
View ArticleIn searing Tracy Letts play, Estelle Parsons is a matriarch de triomphe
Oh. My. God. Hurry to the Ordway Center, where Estelle Parsons, Shannon Cochran and an extraordinary cast of actors are doing mesmerizing work in "August: Osage County," Tracy Letts' blistering,...
View ArticleOpen house
Somewhere out on the Plains, there stands the house. It's one of those large dwellings most people see only in passing as they are driving — just for the sake of example — along Highway 11, heading...
View ArticleMama Doesn't Feel Well, but Everyone Else Will Feel Much Worse
All happy families are alike, Tolstoy told us, and each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. But I'd bet the farm that no family has ever been as unhappy in as many ways - and to such...
View ArticleShow Stealers; Japanese Lantern
Japanese Lantern Sixty years of Indo-Japanese ties is celebrated in an exhibition titled, Journey to the West. A series of contemporary Japanese paintings explores the relationship between eminent...
View ArticleThere's an Oklahoma Dust Bowl coming Denver's way
Nasty "Osage" mother bares American truths From left: Robert Foxworth, Molly Regan, Sally Murphy and Estelle Parsons from the Broadway company of "August: Osage County," perhaps the most acidic...
View ArticleI'm happy, I'm free
It's a face anyone who's seen serials on Doordarshan can't forget. (That just about includes every one born before the mid-80s!) The eyes dance with mischief and a thousand-watt smile lights up the...
View ArticleA chit-chat with Kitu
Actress Kitu Gidwani was in the city on Sunday for the staging of Ballantine’s presentation of the Pulitzer-winning play, August: Osage County, directed by Lillete Dubey. She’s in Hyderabad after a...
View ArticleThe sound of sirens
Name: Siren City Cast: Jayant Kripalani, Vani Tripathi, Kitu Gidwani, Mohan Kapoor, Neha Dubey Theatre Group : The Primetime Theatre Co. Siren City is a play that every Mumbaiikar should watch. It...
View ArticleStreep, Roberts lining up for film version of Pulitzer play
Julia Roberts, pictured here as Elizabeth Gilbert in the film of Gilbert's soul-searching memoir, Eat Pray Love, is in talks to play the eldest daughter in the movie adaptation of Tracy Letts's...
View ArticleReview: 'August: Osage County' delivers savage dialogue, dark humor
Violet Weston is the most malicious matriarch you're likely to have seen onstage in a long time. One moment she's chewing her daughters up and spitting them out, and the next she's putting on a...
View ArticleEngaging with characters
From being the coy Airhostess to being the svelte model hunter in Model, actor Kitu Gidwani has donned many roles but feels directors and ‘movies' are yet to explore her potential as an actor. She also...
View ArticleSplendid stageshow in Mumbai
Here’s some delightful news for the theatre lovers in the city as it gears up to host, for the first time, the Pulitzer prize winning play August: Osage County. Originally directed by Tracy Letts, the...
View ArticleThreatre Review: August Osage County
SHARE AND DISCUSSTweetLillete Dubey’s rendition of August Osage County creates a brooding atmosphere on stage that lingers onPlay: August Osage County Directed by: Lillete Dubey Duration: 135 minutes...
View ArticlePulitzer winning play starring Lillete Dubey staged at Tagore Theatre
Tracy Letts August: Osage County, the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize winning play, was staged on Sunday at Tagore Theatre by actor and director Lillete Dubey. The play is a dark comedy written by Tracy...
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