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August: Osage County Wins Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Amy Morton and Deanna Dunagan in August: Osage County (© Joan Marcus)

Tracy Letts' critically acclaimed play August: Osage County, currently playing Broadway's Imperial Theatre, has been awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. David Henry Hwang's Yellow Face and Christopher Shinn's Dying City were named finalists in the Drama category.

August concerns a missing patriarch and the reunion of the Weston clan who must deal with his disappearance in rural Oklahoma. The play was recently published by TCG. Letts' other plays include The Man From Nebraska -- which was a 2003 Pulitzer finalist -- Bug, and Killer Joe. His newest play Superior Donuts will debut at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company, where he is a member, in June.

The Pulitzer Committee gave a special citation to singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. The Pulitzer Prize for Music was awarded to David Lang's The Little Match Girl Passion, which premiered last October at Carnegie Hall.

Other winners include authors Junot Diaz, John Matteson, Philip Schultz, Daniel Walker Howe, and Saul Friedlander, and Boston Globe critic Mark Feeney.

For more information, go to www.pulitzer.org.

 

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