What: Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for Best New Play, August: Osage County centers around the Weston family, brought together after their patriarch, world-class poet and alcoholic Beverly Weston, disappears. The matriarch, Violet, depressed and addicted to pain pills and “truth-telling,” is joined by her three daughters and their problematic lovers.

Holed up in the large family estate in Osage County, Oklahoma, tensions heat up and boil over in the ruthless August heat. Bursting with humor, vivacity, and intelligence, August: Osage County is is both dense and funny, vicious and compassionate, enormous and unstoppable.

When: Thu – Sun, beginning Thu, 5/9 – Sun, 5/26. Thu – Sat, 7 pm; Sun, 2 pm

Where: Provincetown Theater, 238 Bradford St | Directions

Cost: $30 | Buy Tickets