Shed no tears for August: Osage County, which has just announced that it will close for good on June 28. The play has had an awfully good run. Not only was Tracy Letts’s extraordinary family drama a critical smash—nabbing last year’s Pulitzer Prize, New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award and Tony Award for Best Play—but it was also the rare serious play to achieve popular success on Broadway. (At next weekend’s final curtain, it will have played exactly 666 performances; make of that what you will.) What’s more, the play is going out in excellent form: As our own David Cote attests in his review this week, the current company of the play—led by Phylicia Rashad and original cast member Amy Morton—does full justice to the ups and downs of Letts’s roller-coaster ride. And although the New York production is shutting down, the national tour—starring Estelle Parsons, Rashad’s predecessor on Broadway—kicks off in Denver on July 24. There’s lots of life in this play yet.

Back when the theater complex known as New World Stages was a shabby movie-house, showing second-run films for a dollar, Casimiro “Caz” Torres used to sleep there sometimes. He was a teenager, and homeless; later, he spent 16 years in prison. But for the past 16 months, Torres has been back at New World Stages at least once a week to tell his story in the documentary-theater piece The Castle. (In April of last year, we ran a profile of the show’s remarkable director, David Rothernberg, who shaped the show out of true incidents from the lives of Torres and three other ex-cons: Vilma Ortiz Donovan, Kenneth Harrigan and Angel Ramos.) The show was originally slated to run only a few weeks; after many extensions, it is now scheduled to play its final performance tomorrow afternoon at 5pm. If you haven’t seen this fascinating testimonial, you have one more opportunity before the Castle bridge gets drawn up for good. Visit Telecharge or call 212-239-6200 for tickets.

Not all of the best musical theater in town is on stage. The amazing Barb Jungr is a cabaret singer, but she’s also a consummate musical actor, transforming pop songs into deeply emotional vocal monologues. Jungr is at the Carlyle through this Saturday, March 28, and if you haven’t seen her yet—even if you don’t consider yourself much of a cabaret fan—do yourself a favor and go. For a longer explanation of exactly why we think this is such a must-see event, check out this post on TONY’s music blog, The Volume.

When it rains, it pours, as they say. What they don’t say is that when it stops raining, it often…um…it often really stops raining. Okay, well, you can see why they don’t say that. But the point is, it’s massacre time: This weekend marks the end of the runs of not one, not two, but eight shows that we here at TONY have deemed to be well worth your time and money. All eight of them close on March 15. Beware the Ides of March! For the record, here are links to our reviews of all eight: Becky Shaw, Blanche Survives Katrina in a FEMA Trailer Named Desire, Chautauqua!, Christine Jorgensen Reveals, The Cripple of Inishmaan, The Savannah Disputation, Soul Samurai and This Beautiful City. What are you waiting for? If you rush online or to your phone right now, you may be able to catch one or two of them before they shuffle off this mortal stage for good.