As presented by Stray Cat Theatre as its 23rd season opener, THE MINUTES, a blistering satire of small-town city council meetings, begins as one thing and concludes as something completely different.

As a playwright, Tracy Letts doesn’t repeat himself. From the grand soap opera of “August: Osage County” to the sentimental comedy of “Superior Donuts” to the kaleidoscopic profile of one woman that ...

Big Cherry is a small fictional town that frames modern America's complex and divisive self-image. It's the setting for Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-nominated play, THE MINUTES, which paints a ...

“The Minutes,” by playwright Tracy Letts, is both a biting satirical skewering of beloved and beleaguered elected officials on any American town council. But this satire has a dark, foreboding ...

It’s an interesting notion to think that audiences who loved Dirt Dogs’ stellar production of Tracy Letts’ play, Bug, last season will similarly be smitten with the company’s production of The Minutes ...

Tracy Letts is one of the more searing playwrights at work today. It was he who tore back the suffocating layers of a vicious family in the Pulitzer Prize and Tony-winning play “August Osage County.” ...

In a room in Big Cherry's town hall, more than a half dozen city council members meet during a storm. Stately oil paintings of powerful white men of yore decorate the walls, and brown desks with red ...