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Byline: Adam Green
Forget dancing monsters and singing mermaids. The big news this month is the much-welcome arrival, on and off Broadway, of some decidedly nonmusical new plays by a talented pack of American writers- plus one Irishman and a dead guy. In his highly entertaining creep shows Killer Joe and Bug, Tracy Letts showed a gift for letting the fur fly and the gore spatter. In his latest, August: Osage County, Letts turns to butchery of the emotional kind. Fresh from an ecstatically received run at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre, this modern-day Gothic, set in Oklahoma, dissects three generations of the most screwed-up family ever. Another touching portrait of home life is The Seafarer, Conor McPherson's (Shining City) surprisingly feel-good black comedy, first seen at the Royal National Theatre, about a hard-luck drunk (David Morse) struggling to stay on the wagon who returns home to Dublin to take care of his whiskey-guzzling invalid brother (Jim Norton, reprising his Olivier-winning performance) and winds up spending Christmas ...