He also wrote and acted in The Woman in the Window, which was based on A.J. In addition to his writing for the stage, Letts penned the screenplays for film adaptations of Bug (2006) and Killer Joe (2011), both of which were directed by William Friedkin, and of August: Osage County (2013). The satire The Minutes, which centres on a city council meeting in a small town, premiered at Steppenwolf in 2017 and transferred to Broadway in 2022 Letts also acted in the latter production. The production moved to Broadway in 2019. The following year the latter theatre also staged the debut of his play Linda Vista, a comedy about a midlife crisis. In 2016 his one-act The Stretch opened at The Gift Theatre in Chicago, and Mary Page Marlowe, about the quotidian struggles of an accountant, premiered at Steppenwolf. Also in 2009 Letts’s adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters premiered at a theatre in Portland, Oregon. The play revolves around a doughnut shop, located in Chicago’s changing Uptown neighbourhood, whose Polish American ex-hippie proprietor struggles to deal with his altered surroundings and a new, charismatic African American shop assistant. Letts followed August: Osage County with Superior Donuts, which debuted at Steppenwolf in 2008 and moved to Broadway the following year. Get a Britannica Premium subscription and gain access to exclusive content. According to Letts, all his plays feature real-life characters who do not always express themselves poetically. Critics regarded The Man from Nebraska and August: Osage County as tamer than Letts’s earlier fare, though the playwright himself saw more similarities than differences across his body of work. Performed by Steppenwolf as well as on Broadway (with Letts’s own father in the role of the patriarch) in 2007, August: Osage County won a Pulitzer Prize and five Tony Awards, including for best play. His subsequent play, August: Osage County, was a black comedy depicting a wildly dysfunctional Oklahoma family coping with the death of its patriarch. The story of an insurance agent’s loss of religious faith, it represented a departure from the writer’s previous shocking blood-and-guts material and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. In 2003 Steppenwolf staged Letts’s next play, The Man from Nebraska. He appeared onstage in several productions of Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company before being invited to join the ensemble in 2002. He moved to Los Angeles for a brief period, finding bits of work on television shows such as Seinfeld and Judging Amy. It premiered in London in 1996 and later ran in New York. Next came Bug, a love story about a woman who is a cocaine addict and a man who thinks his body is infested with insects. A later successful staging at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe resulted in well-received productions in New York City and London. Mixed reviews did not prevent it from being a hit. Two years later Letts and a few other actors produced the play themselves. The script was so graphic and violent, however, that no theatre company would agree to produce it. In 1991 Letts wrote the play Killer Joe, about a Texas family that enlists the titular murderer-for-hire to kill a relative with a sizable life insurance policy. SpaceNext50 Britannica presents SpaceNext50, From the race to the Moon to space stewardship, we explore a wide range of subjects that feed our curiosity about space!Īre you a princess of Pop? The king of Culture? See if you’re an entertainment expert by answering these questions.Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them! Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century.Britannica Beyond We’ve created a new place where questions are at the center of learning.100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians.
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