Tracy Letts likes it dark. The Chicago-based playwright is best known for plumbing the depths of the human psyche with his comic-gothic thrillers "Bug" and "Killer Joe." With "August: Osage County," now in its world premiere at Steppenwolf Theatre, Letts moves his lens a bit closer to home, to his childhood state of Oklahoma. The sprawling, ambitious (three generations, 3.5 hours and two intermissions) family epic hits its mark with aplomb...
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Originally published July 24, 2007, Centerstage Chicago