From the Ledge

OK, I know I just posted a blog entry slightly more than eight hours ago on the unaninous acclamation in New York City of “August:  Osage County”’s greatness.  Well, that’s why I have a blog- I can write about the things I am passionate about anytime I feel like it.  I just wanted to link to two of the interesting Chicago theatre blogs I read, Kris Vire’s Storefront Rebellion, and Rob Kozlowski’s Everyone’s Favorite-As-Yet-Unproduced Chicago-Based Polish Playwright.  Both of them have something to say about the raves and hotlink to many of the reviews.  But I also wanted to point out Rob’s very honest, very precise reminder:  “Congratulations, of course, are due to the folks at Steppenwolf but let us NOT forget that to legitimize AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY as a great American play only when it reaches Broadway does an enormous disservice to it. It was a great play already, when it was here. The best fucking town in America.”  I can’t agree more.