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WRITTEN BY Tracy Letts
DIRECTED BY Ron Jones

SEASON 7 | 2022–2023

MAY 26 ‒ JUNE 10, 2023

MATCH | Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston

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RUNTIME: 2 hours, 45 minutes (with two, 10-minute intermissions)

WINNER! 2023 Houston Theater Awards

Best Season
Best Actress: Deborah Hope

and FINALIST for Best Artistic Director: Malinda L. Beckham, Best Director: Ron Jones, Best Ensemble, Best Supporting Actress: Elizabeth Marshall Black, Best Set Design: Mark Lewis and Best Play

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When the large Weston family unexpectedly reunites after patriarch Dad up and disappears, their Oklahoman family homestead explodes in a maelstrom of repressed truths and unsettling secrets. A vanished father, a pill-popping mother, and three sisters harboring shady little secrets become a mixture of brutal honesty and hurtful truth as old wounds reopen and new ones form. Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for best play that same year, August: Osage County examines how people function within dysfunction.

The Story

August: Osage County concludes our 7th Season, dubbed the “Season of Love.” This might sound odd, considering the extreme dysfunction of the immediate and extended members of the Weston family, but they are still family.

Family is the love cycle we are born into.  It’s the very first place we learn about love and how it works, how those around us express it, share it, and withhold it; our first lesson in love languages.  Violet’s love language was providing her three daughters with more than she had growing up—a college education—offering them opportunities she was never given. However, that language was foreign to them because what they really needed was an expression of love in actual words and touch, something neither of their parents ever mastered.

Violet brought with her to motherhood the ache and the pain of her own traumatizing childhood, but she gives her girls the only love she knew how to offer—the ability to choose something different for themselves—to break the cycle.

We are so excited you are here.  Please enjoy the journey of the “Weston Sisters.”

MALINDA L. BECKHAM, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

The Reason

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“The combustion is phenomenal.”

Photos by Pin Lim

The Reviews

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CAR TAKES WITH DEBORAH AND JOEL

“It's work you have to see!”

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READ THE HOUSTON PRESS REVIEW

“AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY is a miracle to witness, a dizzying mix of tragedy and dark comedy that is pulled off in this flawless adaptation from DIRT DOGS... It cements them as one of Houston’s most powerful producers.”

“If you smell smoke near Midtown Arts and Theater Center Houston near Main and Holman, don't be alarmed. It's only Dirt Dogs Theatre's production of Tracy Lett's August: Osage County, burning up the boards and blistering the paint.”

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The Reaction

...some audience members couldn’t stay in their seats, bouncing and shivering with uncontrollable “Oh My God” excitement. The only thing keeping them from leaping up and screaming was their sense of theatre etiquette.

Deborah Hope absolutely SEARS the stage... She’s perfectly matched by Elizabeth Marshall Black, who delivers a knockout performance, as her daughter Barbara. The entire cast is in the ‘as good as it gets’ category...

John Raley

Bill Giffen

Beverly Weston

Steve Heidebrecht

Melissa J. Marek

Justin Morgan Brown

Elizabeth Marshall Black

Brian Broome

Ivy Weston

Little Charles

Barbara Fordham

Charlie Aiken

August: Osage County Team

CAST

CREATIVE TEAM

Isaí Leal

Adina Owen

Elena Vazquez

Jim Elliott

Kyle Clark

Jeff Featherston

Brad Goertz

Sound Design

Intimacy Director

Jean Fordham

Lighting Design

Fight Choreographer

Bill Fordham

Sheriff Deon Gilbeau

Malinda L. Beckham

Deborah Hope

Elizabeth Byrd Shipsey

Mark Lewis

Ron Jones

Costume & Properties Design

Violet Weston

Mattie Fae Aiken

Scenic Design

Director

Trevor B. Cone

Katrina Ellsworth

Elissa Cuellar

Production Manager

Karen Weston

Johnna Monevata

Gary Griffin

Photographer

CREW

Barbara Alicea-Aponte

Production Stage Manager

Addison Antonoff

Assistant Stage
Manager