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| November 01, 2007 | Green, Adam | COPYRIGHT 2007 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

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 ...

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