Just kidding. There's nothing easy about it, but it does happen, and it's happening now. Cadence Theatre's production of "August: Osage County" is stunningly realized, an experience of outrageous comedy and visceral pain. Written for Steppenwolf...

Then last August, the director returned to Southern California to mount Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning "August: Osage County" at the Old Globe, and Margaret Gray, writing in the L.A. Times, compared his dexterous handling of the domestic minefield...

Wells is to direct the big-screen version of Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning drama, TWC Co-Chairmen Harvey and Bob Weinstein announced Thursday. Julia Roberts and Meryl Streep are to headline the film adaptation of the Broadway play...

But I’m extremely tired of her getting hired to play every female character over the age of 50. I think the breaking point for me was the news that Streep’s been cast to play to play Violet Weston, the poisonous matriarch of the family at the center of...

Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts will take on the mother and daughter roles in the movie adaptation of Tony Award-winning play 'August: Osage County'. Streep will play drug-addicted Violet Weston and Roberts her eldest daughter, Barbara Fordham, in the...

John Wells (ER, The Company Men), who also produced the Golden Globe winning Mildred Pierce for HBO, will direct the film for the Weinstein Co. , the indie studio up for an Oscar with the frontrunner The Artist. Production expects to start in the fall.

Tracy Letts' play August: Osage County opened on Broadway in 2008 some critics claimed it was the first indisputably great American play of the 21st century. It will soon be adapted by Weinstein Co. into a major new Hollywood film, with Julia Roberts...

That drama, starring Ben Affleck and Tommy Lee Jones, is about corporate downsizing during the recession. "I'm delighted and feel very privileged to have the opportunity to direct Meryl and Julia in this magnificent piece written by Tracy Letts," Wells...

Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts The John Wells directed film is based on the play written by Tracy Letts. It follows the women of a family whose lives have splintered in many directions until a crisis bring them back to their childhood home and to the...

The Weinstein Co. announced Wednesday that Oscar winners Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, long rumored for the project, will work together for the first time in a film adaptation of Tracy Letts’ Pulitzer and Tony-winning play. John Wells, best known for...

Streep and Julia Roberts have signed on to star in The Weinstein Company's film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play "August: Osage County," the company said Wednesday. John Wells, the "E.R." "August: Osage County" is the story...

Today: Meryl and Julia are teaming up on a big movie, Jennifer Aniston is making another switch, and a new show sounds very exciting. Long rumored, now confirmed: Actresses Meryl Streep (She-Devil) and Julia Roberts (Mary Reilly) will make their first...

Los Angeles on June 27, 2011. UPI/Jim Ruymen Published: Feb. 16, 2012 at 1:59 PM NEW YORK, Feb. 16 (UPI) -- The Weinstein Co. says Julia Roberts and Meryl Streep are to headline the film adaptation of the Broadway play "August: Osage County." John Wells...

Streep and Julia Roberts have signed on to star in The Weinstein Company’s film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play August: Osage County, the company said Wednesday. John Wells, the E.R. creator, will direct the darkly comic...

Kramer"). Two titans of the silver screen will go tete-a-tete in "August: Osage County," with Oscar winners Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts playing mother and daughter in the adaptation of the Broadway play. The Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning play by...

Streep and Julia Roberts are set to co-star in the movie version of Tracy Letts' big-hit play August: Osage County, which starts shooting in the fall. The Tony Award-winning August—which premiered at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre in 2007 before...

Photograph: Carl Court/AFP/Getty Images; Stefan Wermuth/Reuters The play, about a pill-popping matriarch and her rackety family, will be adapted for the screen by Tracy Letts, who won a Pulitzer prize for the work. The play was optioned by the...

The Weinstein Company confirmed today that, after being in talks with the Oscar-winning actresses for over a year, Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts have signed onto the film adaptation of Tracy Letts’ Pulitzer and Tony-winning play. This is so exciting! ...

Roberts and Meryl Streep will co-star in the film version of Tracy Letts' August: Osage County, according to The Hollywood Reporter. John Wells will direct the film. The Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play centers a family whose lives have...