Now showing at the Alliance Theatre, this prize-winning play features Atlanta's top actors as members of the Weston family - a clan of kin from the middle of nowhere whose lives are suddenly filled with sex, secrets and scandals the morning after a suicide.

August: Osage County
Alliance Theatre
Through May 8

Filled with lies, drugs and sex (and incest,) August: Osage County puts the "fun" in dysfunctional. Built firmly atop the secret pleasures of schadenfreude, this play has been deemed one of the best things "Broadway has seen in years." Set in a sprawling, ramshackle house with overstuffed, threadbare furniture, the Weston family runs to their mother's side - a drug addicted, cancer-afflicted now-widow with a grudge - after their father commits suicide. What follows is a blisteringly intense, three-hour "emotional Armageddon" in which three sisters, an aunt and their various male counterparts tear each other to shreds, only to weave themselves together yet again. A humbling look at the strength (and psyche-destroying abilities) our families bring to our lives, August: Osage County is one cathartic piece of theatre.

Presented with the Tony Award for Best Play, the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play, this much-lauded script has found - and exploited - the dark mirth in the staggering complexities of the modern American family. Filled with clever, cutting quips and wrenching sidebars, August: Osage County exposes the twisted, tangled heartstrings of both cast and audience with raucous black humor.

Seriously, you gotta see this play.

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