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Tracy Letts

  1. theater review
    The Minutes on Broadway Feels a Few Years Too LateThere was a time when Tracy Letts’s play, about a city council with a secret, felt prescient. But real life has outstripped its satire.
    By Helen Shaw
  2. the snail trail
    What’s Up With the Snails in Deep Water?The snails aren’t for eating, but they are a hallmark of Patricia Highsmith’s psychological horror.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  3. movie review
    The Woman in the Window Is a Trashy Movie Trying to Be a Classy OneThe Amy Adams thriller would be better off embracing its true self.
    By Alison Willmore
  4. movie review
    If Only the Rest of French Exit Were As Good As Michelle Pfeiffer’s PerformancePfeiffer is delightful and overwhelming as a mordant Manhattan socialite searching for an ending in a depressive farce that never really gets going.
    By Alison Willmore
  5. trailer mix
    Michelle Pfeiffer and Lucas Hedges Go Full Motherboy in the French Exit Trailer“The hens are clucking.”
    By Rebecca Alter
  6. theater
    Tracy Letts and Armie Hammer Swear Their New Political Play Isn’t About TrumpIt was a Pulitzer finalist in 2018.
    By Jackson McHenry
  7. oscar endings
    The Inception Ending of Little Women, ExplainedDoes Jo March get married in Greta Gerwig’s movie, and does it matter?
    By Alison Willmore
  8. casting
    Tracy Letts’s The Minutes Is Coming to Broadway With Armie HammerPerformances begin at the Cort Theatre on February 25.
    By Jackson McHenry
  9. theater review
    Theater Review: When Middle Age Goes Rough, in Linda VistaTracy Letts finds emotional vulnerability in a nearly wrecked man.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  10. party report
    Tracy Letts Describes the Time Annette Bening ‘Slapped the Sh*t’ Out of HimAn intimate scene on Broadway.
    By Hunter Harris
  11. casting
    Michelle Pfeiffer, Lucas Hedges, and Tracy Letts to Star in French ExitKeep the cat content coming, Hollywood.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  12. theater review
    Theater Review: All About the Men in All My SonsAnnette Bening squeezes every bit of power out of a too-slight part.
    By Sara Holdren
  13. broadway
    Your Parents Annette Bening and Tracy Letts to Star in All My Sons on BroadwayPreviews begin April 4.
    By Jackson McHenry
  14. theater review
    Theater Review: Mary Page Marlowe Is a Simple CarbohydrateTasty enough, familiar, not especially filling.
    By Sara Holdren
  15. castings
    Julianne Moore in Talks to Join Woman in the Window, Film to Be Unbearably TenseAlongside Amy Adams.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  16. castings
    Amy Adams Will Get Her Hitchcock Moment With The Woman in the Window AdaptationIt will be directed by Joe Wright with a screenplay from Tracy Letts.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  17. chat room
    Tracy Letts Says Everyone Was Nervous on the Set of The Post, Except Carrie Coon“[Carrie] just has ice water in her veins. She’s like an assassin.”
    By Hunter Harris
  18. movie review
    Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird Marks the Arrival of a Major Directorial TalentEverything comes together for Gerwig in her marvelous solo directorial debut.
    By David Edelstein
  19. chat room
    Tracy Lettson The Lovers, Sobriety, and His Marriage to Carrie Coon“I’m really surprised to find how much I love being married.”
    By E. Alex Jung
  20. year in culture 2016
    The Best Film Performances of 2016It would be much easier to make a Worst Performances of 2016 list than one that could do justice to all the terrific ones.
    By David Edelstein
  21. behind the scene
    Behind the Making of Indignation’s Thrilling, 18-Minute Argument Scene“When you’re a director watching an 18-minute scene unfold, you can come up with a lot of notes, let me tell you.”
    By Kevin Lincoln
  22. Theater Review: The Realistic Joneses Are All TalkCan drama truly be made out of conversational gambits?
    By Jesse Green
  23. movie review
    Edelstein on August: Osage County: Histrionic and InauthenticThe star-vehicle-ness of it all takes over the Pulitzer-Prize-winning play.
    By David Edelstein
  24. stage dive
    Theater Review: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?It can’t shock the way it once did, but it sure does land its punches.
    By Scott Brown
  25. stage dive
    Stage Dive: Get This Virginia Woolf to Broadway, Even If We Have to Build a Theater!The Steppenwolf production at the Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., is a bigger, badder version of the Albee classic, starring the brilliant Tracy Letts.
    By Scott Brown
  26. the industry
    Industry Roundup: McConaughey, HirschPlus: A Garth Brooks song will become a two-hour Lifetime movie.
    By Josh Duboff
  27. the industry
    Jaden Smith to Strike a Crane PosePlus: America Ferrera bows to popular demand, will star in an Iraq-war drama.
    By Adam Raymond
  28. ranters and ravers
    Charles Isherwood Declares ‘August: Osage County’ the Next ‘Thom Pain’Another head-scratching rave from the Times theater critic?