When the large Weston family unexpectedly reunites after dad disappears, their Oklahoman family homestead explodes in a maelstrom of repressed truths and unsettling secrets. Mix in Violet, the drugged-up, scathingly acidic matriarch, and you’ve got a major new Broadway play that unflinchingly - and uproariously - exposes the dark side of the Midwestern American family.

Fresh from a thrilling, sold-out run at Chicago's Tony Award-Winning Steppenwolf Theatre, August: Osage County had audiences riveted and critics raving. This thrilling new play by Pulitzer Prize finalist Tracy Letts (Bug, Killer Joe) has been hailed by The New York Times as “hugely entertaining! A ripsnorter full of blistering, funny dialogue, acid-etched characters and scenes of no-holds-barred emotional combat.”

Anna D. Shapiro (The Pain and the Itch) directs the "dazzling good" ensemble in what Variety calls "a deep and highly entertaining work, consistently rich, raw and intense, filled with viciousness and vicious wit."

Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company, founded in 1976, has an international reputation built through its commitment to ensemble performance through the collaboration of a company of actors, director and playwrights. Prior to August: Osage County, its last production to be staged at the National Theatre was The Grapes Of Wrath in 1989.

August: Osage County playwright Letts’s other plays include Man From Nebraska, Bug, Superior Donuts and Killer Joe, which was staged in London at the Bush theatre and Vaudeville theatre.

Writing about the Broadway production of August: Osage County, the New York Times described the play as: "The most exciting new American play Broadway has seen for years."