Awards and Nominations
- Awards (non-performance awards only)
- 2007 Jeff Award (Chicago) for Best New Work – Play
- 2007 Jeff Award (Chicago) for Best Production – Play
- 2008 Drama Desk Award for Best New Play
- 2008 Drama League Award for Distinguished Production of a Play
- 2008 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play
- 2008 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Broadway Play
- 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
- Five – 2008 Tony Awards, including Tony Award for Best Play
- 2009 Entertainment Weekly put it on its end-of-the-decade, "best-of" list, saying, "Even with a run time of three and a half hours, Tracy Letts' 2007 drama of Southern-fried familial dysfunction went by in one lightning-fast jolt of pure theatrical electricity."
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