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Playwright Tracy Letts revels in his Midwestern roots

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Always a Midwesterner at heart, Tracy Letts is now starring on Broadway in Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf."

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Steppenwolf alums Tracy Letts and Amy Morton play a couple once again in Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf," which just opened on Broadway.

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Steppenwolf ensemble member Tracy Letts is so polite that he warns you right away that he makes a terrible subject of a story. “Midwestern people don’t make for good interviews,” says the Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning playwright and actor, who proudly makes his home in Chicago. “We’re taught to hide our light, in a sense.” Currently, he’s booked to play George in an open-ended revival of Edward Albee’s bruising “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” on Broadway.