The CAA-Witherle Play Reading Group finishes its Spring 2026 season with “The Minutes”. Readings will take place over two consecutive Thursdays, June 18 and 25, starting at 4:30 pm in the library Reading Room.

Audience members are welcome. To watch over Zoom please email kathryn@witherlelibrary.net. Scripts will be available shortly at the library circulation desk.

Tracy Letts’ “The Minutes” premiered at Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago (where Letts is a longtime ensemble member) on November 9, 2017. The play was a Pulitzer Prize finalist.

In “The Minutes,” Tracy Letts’s scathing comedy about small-town politics and real-world power, the writer who brought you “August: Osage County” exposes the ugliness behind some of our most closely held American narratives while asking each of us what we would do to keep from becoming history’s losers. (Steppenwolf Theatre)

Tracy Letts is a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwright, actor, and ensemble member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company. He is the author of plays “Linda Vista,” “Mary Page Marlowe,” “The Scavenger’s Daughter,” “Superior Donuts,” “August: Osage County”(Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award), “Man from Nebraska” (Pulitzer Prize finalist), “Bug,” and “Killer Joe.” Also an actor, he received the 2013 Tony Award for Best Actor in Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” TV and film credits include “Lady Bird,” “The Lovers,” “Christine,” “Elvis and Nixon,” “The Big Short,” HBO’s “Divorce,” and two seasons as Senator Lockhart on Showtime’s “Homeland.”