Packed with dysfunctional-family melodrama and satisfying zingers, “August: Osage County” chronicles the clashes and revelations that roil Violet’s household after her husband, Beverly, an alcoholic poet, mysteriously disappears.
The Helen Hayes Awards has recommended Keegan’s production of August: Osage County, now playing through September 2!
This play is in three acts, and is three hours and forty minutes long. When it ended, I wanted some more. Brothers and sisters, that’s good theater.
The Keegan Theatre is presenting a production of this play that is nothing short of inspired.
The lesson: Call your mother and father more often.
Keegan Theatre’s August: Osage County is a Washington production well-worth seeing: a three-act Greek trilogy of sorts, the play explores through crisis and comedy the darkest areas of the soul. To be sure, you won’t leave the theatre feeling like all is right with the world, but you might leave wanting to do your part to salvage what’s left.
Closing out Keegan’s 2011-12 season is Tracy Letts’ Pulitizer Prize-winning and Tony Award-winning play, August: Osage County. Letts’ jaw-dropping masterpiece of opens on Friday, August 3 and runs through September 2, 2012, at the company’s home on Church Street in Dupont Circle.
The Keegan Theatre is thrilled to announce its line-up for the 2012-2013 season, the company’s sixteenth.
The setting of the Keegan Theater is the perfect venue for “12 Angry Men”. The space is small, bare, and somewhat claustrophobic, as is the play, set in 1954 in a jury room in the Bronx on the hottest day of the year. The set design has a convincingly spare look, with just a windowless brick wall for backdrop.
Justice is in the balance in DC as The Keegan Theatre offers up a bruising examination of the judicial system, American style, in Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose (now extended to 3/31). To paraphrase from the popular quote: Verdicts are like sausages; it’s better not to see them in the making.
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