Steppenwolf's Tracy Letts is no stranger to success or to Chicago audiences.
He's performed as an actor in 18 Steppenwolf productions, and has written such acclaimed plays as Bug and Killer Joe.
His latest creation is an epic three and a half hour-long family drama called August: Osage County.
The play opened this week at Stepppenwolf and is already generating rave reviews.
Here to tell us whether we should believe the hype are Eight Forty-Eight's Dueling Critics: Jonathan Abarbanel and Kelly Kleiman.