The Minutes

Review\n"Letts is a keen observer of the way the past oozes into the present and future. And while each of his characters has a vivid identity, each also has a dozen richly contradictory aspects to his or her nature... The playwright also serves up some blackly comic laughs, too, just to clear the air from time to time." ― Chicago Sun-Times\n“The Minutes will not be a play you forget quickly.” ― Chicago Tribune\n"With his new play “The Minutes,” a simmering satire of a small-town city council meeting that evolves — or devolves — into something of a horror tale, Pulitzer-winning playwright Tracy Letts has written what is nearly certain to be the single work of art that best represents, but will also survive, the Trump era." ― Variety\n"A playwright with talent, nerve and something to say... a finely tuned ear and eye for the hidden - and not always noble - calibrations of the human heart." ― Hollywood Reporter\nFinalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Beneath the deadpan back-and-forth of a seemingly typical city council board meeting lies the whiff of something distinctly sinister in Tracy Letts’s new play The Minutes. Known for his keen ability to illustrate the faults and cracks under humanity’s surface, Letts delivers an acutely thrilling new work that pulls you in with laughter before grabbing you by the throat.