Here is a link to some wonderful rehearsal photos!

Rehearsal Sneak Peaks:

Arnold Meister will be directing a staged reading of Tracy Letts’ 2007 August: Osage County for KCP, opening on January 27 for two weekends at KAPA, and is looking for a cast of 13, as described below.

The play will be staged on a minimal set; the actors will use scripts; two weeks of intense rehearsal will be required.  There is a good bit of info about this play on the internet.

Play dates at Puhi Theatrical Warehouse…

January 27, 28, 29, February 3, 4, 5 (actors should schedule a possibleextension Feb. 10, 11, 12).

The critics have said…

“The most exciting new American play Broadway has seen in years.” Charles Isherwood, The New York Times

“This original and corrosive black comedy deserves a seat at the dinner table with the great American family plays.”  Richard Zoglin, Time

“A tremendous achievement in American playwriting; a tragicomic populist portrait of a tough land and its tougher people.”  David Cote, Timeout New York

“Letts creates a parade of memorable people spanning several generations of unhappiness and unfulfilled dreams.  There are thirteen characters, each one getting Letts’s full attention. August: Osage County has introduced a major playwright to Broadway.”  Michael Kuchwara, Associated Press

“August will cement Letts’s place in theatrical history.  He has written a Great American Play.  How many of those will we get the chance to discover in our lifetime?”  Melissa Rose Bernardo, Entertainment Weekly

“Packed with unforgettable characters and dozens of quotable lines, August: Osage County is a tensely satisfying comedy, interspersed with remarkable evocations on the cruelties and (occasional) kindnesses of family life.  It is as harrowing a new work as Broadway has offered in years and the funniest in even longer.”  Eric Grode, New York Sun

The play has won many awards…

2007 Jeff Award (Chicago) for Best New Work – Play

2007 Jeff Award (Chicago) for Best Production – Play

2008 Drama Desk Award for Best New Play

2008 Drama League Award for Distinguished Production of a Play

2008 New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play

2008 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Broadway Play

2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama

2008 Tony Award for Best Play

2009 Entertainment Weekly put it on its end-of-the-decade, “best-of” list, saying, “Even with a run time of three and a half hours, Tracy Letts’ 2007 drama of Southern-fried familial dysfunction went by in one lightning-fast jolt of pure theatrical electricity.”