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Note from the Producing Artistic Director and the Managing Director
Welcome to August: Osage County, Tracy Letts’ powerful, disturbing, and hilarious Pulitzer Prize-winning play that elevates family dysfunction to an art. We think you’ll be pleased to spend the next three hours with the Westons. We know you’ll be grateful that they are not your family.
By now you should have received your subscription brochure for the 2023-24 season. We urge you to subscribe or renew your subscription as quickly as possible. You won’t just be securing your seats, but making an important statement – that you support our organization, our mission, as a whole. You’re not just signing up for a particular slate of plays but endorsing all the other work we do, including our many educational and community engagement programs. In other words, you’re making a commitment to our institution and what we stand for. You're saying that professional theatre is a vital part of life, and that you want to see PBD continue to grow and flourish.
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Of course, your subscription also assures that you’ll have the seats you want on the days you want them, and that you’ll pay less than you would for single tickets. We’re very excited about the upcoming season, as all five plays, each in their own way, have something to say about this unsettled time we’re living in. We believe strongly that it’s very important for theatre to be a pulpit for expression, to hold up a mirror to society, to get us talking. We hope you’ll be part of the conversation.
August: Osage County is, of course, the penultimate play of our 2022-23 season. We close with another Pulitzer Prize winner, Suzan-Lori Parks’ Topdog/Underdog, which opens on May 26. It’s a very different story of family dysfunction: a two-character play about the boiling sibling rivalry between two brothers, now in their 30s, who were abandoned by their parents as teenagers and forced to fend for themselves. Please join us for this trenchant tragicomedy.
Enjoy the show!
William Hayes
Producing Artistic Director
Sue Ellen Beryl Managing Director
