Show Info For "Killer Joe"
| Title: Killer Joe | Show Type: Full Play / Musical |
| Theater Company: Costa Mesa Playhouse | Venue: Costa Mesa Playhouse |
| Dates: 11/1/2024 - 11/24/2024 | No Audition Info Known |
| Tickets: Click Here | |
Description: A decade before August: Osage County won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, American playwright Tracy Letts made waves in theater circles with his debut play, Killer Joe at the Next Lab Theater in Chicago in 1993. Acclaimed productions of Lett’s darkly comic West Dallas thriller followed in London and New York. Killer Joe broadened its audience with the 2011 film adaptation starring Matthew McConaughey in the title role, and directed by five-time Academy Award-winner William Friedkin (The French Connection, The Exorcist). Diabolical, riveting, and bizarre, Killer Joe is emblematic of nineties theater and cinema when narrative conventions were being pushed to the fringes with grit, humor, and hyperrealism. Beneath Killer Joe's “trailer park” facade is an elegant homage to the colorful characters, cynicism, and crime-plotting of classic film noir. | |
Artists involved in the production of this show:
| Catlin Zinn- Actor |
| Justin Callisch- Actor |
| Kathryn Ludlam- Actor |
| Mark Tillman- Actor |
| Peter Hilton- Actor |
| Chris Mertan- Director |