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In anticipation of the upcoming Best of Miami issue hitting newsstands June 16, here is a sneak peek at one category and its winner.
Best Play
August: Osage County
Actors’ Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre
280 Miracle Mile
Coral Gables 33134
305-444-9293
actorsplayhouse.org
At just more than three hours long, Tracy Letts’s Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning August: Osage County is ferocious playwriting at its best. Elaborate and epic in its operatic scope, the emotionally charged and darkly funny play puts family psychodrama center stage. As a result, the unflinching view of a dysfunctional family forced to deal with some thorny baggage packs a palpable punch. It boasted an outstanding cast and a mercurial performance by Annette Miller, who portrayed family matriarch Violet. Comedy and tragedy are present here in all of their forms, and Letts’s characters are both complex and provocative. Actors’ Playhouse pulled it off flawlessly. It’s the kind of play that breathes new life into the Miami theater scene.
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