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</font><p style="background:white;margin:0in 0in 10pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:24pt">Pulitzer Prize-winning
drama</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt"></span></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="background:white;margin:0in 0in 10pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="color:rgb(191,0,95);font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:36pt">August: Osage County</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt"></span></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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</font><p style="background:white;margin:0in 0in 10pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="color:rgb(96,0,191);font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:22pt">Tracy Letts</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt"></span></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="background:white;margin:0in 0in 10pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:13.5pt">Directed by</span><span style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:18pt"> </span><span style="color:rgb(130,56,87);font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:18pt">Martin Friedman</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt"></span></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="background:white;margin:0in 0in 10pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:13.5pt">Sets and Lights Designed
by</span><span style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:18pt"> </span><span style="color:rgb(130,56,87);font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:18pt">Keith Nagy</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt"></span></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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</font><p style="background:white;margin:0in 0in 10pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:13.5pt">Production Stage Manager</span><span style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:18pt"> </span><span style="color:rgb(130,56,87);font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:18pt">Nicole Vencl</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt"></span></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="background:white;margin:0in 0in 10pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:18pt">Featuring</span><span style="color:rgb(130,56,87);font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:18pt"> Anne McEvoy </span><span style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt">as Violet</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt"></span></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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Award for Best Play</span></b></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p><b><span style="color:black;font-family:"Open Sans";font-size:16pt">“Alcoholism, drug addiction, adultery,
sexual misbehavior: The list of pathologies afflicting one or another of the
Weston family is seemingly endless, and in some ways wearily familiar. But Mr.
Letts’s antic recombination of soapy staples is so pop-artfully orchestrated
that you never see the next curveball coming, and the play is so quotably funny
I’d have a hard time winnowing favorite lines to a dozen. “<span>
</span><span> </span>--</span></b><span style="color:black;font-family:"Open Sans";font-size:16pt">Ben Brantley, </span><b><span style="color:black;font-family:"Open Sans";font-size:14pt">New York Times</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:14pt"></span></b></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="background:white;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:rgb(64,49,82);font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:14pt">“In Tracy Letts'
ferociously entertaining play, the American dysfunctional family drama comes
roaring into the twenty-first century with eyes blazing, nostrils flaring and
fangs bared, laced with corrosive humor so darkly delicious and ghastly that
you're squirming in your seat even as you're doubled-over laughing. A massive
meditation on the cruel realities that often belie standard expectations of
conjugal and family accord—not to mention on the decline of American integrity
itself."</span></b><span style="color:rgb(64,49,82);font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:14pt"> <span> </span></span><span style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:14pt">—Variety. "</span></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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</font><p style="background:white;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:rgb(152,72,7);font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:14pt">Tracy Letts, in his
Broadway debut, creates a hugely ambitious, highly combustible saga that will
leave you reeling. AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY may make you think twice about going
home for the holidays…it's a great big exhilarating gift."<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>—NY Daily News. </span></b></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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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." —NY Sun. </span></b></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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</font><p style="background:white;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:purple;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:16pt">Production
Dates:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt"></span></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="background:white;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(96,0,191);font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:18pt">August: Osage County </span><b><span style="color:rgb(0,127,127);font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:18pt">will open on Friday, September 19 and run
through October 5, 2014--Friday through Sunday.</span></b><b><span style="color:rgb(0,127,127);font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt"> </span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt"></span></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,127,127);font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt">Saturday, September 20 @ 7:30 p.m.</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt"></span></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,127,127);font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt">Friday, September 26 @ 7:30 p.m.</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt"></span></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,127,127);font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt">Saturday, September 27 @ 7:30 p.m.</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt"></span></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,127,127);font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt">Friday, October 3 @ 7:30 p.m.</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt"></span></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:16pt"><font color="#000000">$15 adults, $13 seniors and $7
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Weston: </span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:16pt"><font color="#000000">Anne
McEvoy </font></span></b></div><div style="background:white;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:16pt"></span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:16pt"><span style="color:purple">Barbara Fordham: </span><font color="#000000">Diane Mull<span> </span></font></span></b></div><div style="background:white;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:16pt"><span style="color:purple">Bill Fordham: </span><font color="#000000">Andrew Narten </font></span></b></div><div style="background:white;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:16pt"><span style="color:purple">Jean Fordham: </span><font color="#000000">NatalieWelch <span> </span></font></span></b></div><div style="background:white;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:16pt"><span style="color:purple">Ivy Weston: </span><font color="#000000">Courtney Auman </font></span></b></div><div style="background:white;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:16pt"><span style="color:purple">Karen Weston: </span><font color="#000000">Debbie Jenkins </font></span></b></div><div style="background:white;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:16pt"><span style="color:purple">Mattie Fae Aiken: </span><font color="#000000">Rose Leninger </font></span></b></div><div style="background:white;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:16pt"><span style="color:purple">Charlie Aiken: </span><font color="#000000">Jeff Glover </font></span></b></div><div style="background:white;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:16pt"><span style="color:purple">Little
Charles Aiken: </span><font color="#000000">Jeremy Jenkins </font></span></b></div><div style="background:white;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:16pt"><span style="color:purple">Johnna: </span><font color="#000000">Caitlin Post </font></span></b></div><div style="background:white;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:16pt"><span style="color:purple">Steve Heidebrecht: </span><font color="#000000">Aaron A. Elersich </font></span></b></div><div style="background:white;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:16pt"><span style="color:purple">Sheriff
Deon Gilbeau: </span><font color="#000000">Michael Vitovich </font></span></b></div><div style="background:white;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:16pt"><span style="color:purple">Beverly
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and wondering, shuddering and smiling, long after the house lights come back
on." —NY Newsday. "This original and corrosive black comedy deserves
a seat at the dinner table with the great American family plays." —Time
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