THEATER REVIEW | 'DIVIDING THE ESTATE' Nov 21, 2008
Theater Review - 'Dividing the Estate' - Inherit the Windfall - Horton Footes Greedy Family at the Booth Theater - NYTimes ... From left, Hallie Foote, James DeMarse, Devon Abner and Maggie Lacey star in Horton Foote s play about a Texas clan, which opened Thursday at the Booth Theater ... From left, Elizabeth Ashley, Penny Fuller, James DeMarse, Jenny Dare Paulin, Hallie Foote and Gerald McRaney in Horton Foote s Dividing the Estate, at the Booth Theater. (New York Times)
WHAT'S COMING UP: Familiar names will be on Broadway, too Sep 11, 2008
Elizabeth Ashley, Penny Fuller and Gerald McRaney are among the seasoned troupers cast in this off-Broadway transfer by The Trip to Bountiful playwright Horton Foote. Irving Berlin's White Christmas Nov. 23Marquis Theatre. (USA Today)
HUMANITAS Prize Announces New Finalists and Welcomes New President, New Venue and New Vision Aug 27, 2008
They include: Richard LaGravenese (Freedom Writers); Hanif Kureishi (Venus); Paul Haggis & Bobby Moresco (Crash); Peter Morgan (Longford); Greg Garcia (My Name is Earl); Keir Pearson & Terry George (Hotel Rwanda); Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Lackawanna Blues); Michael Kang (The Motel); John Wells (The West Wing); Tony Kushner (Angels in America); Antwone Fisher (Antwone Fisher); Niki Caro (Whale Rider); David E. Kelley (The Practice); Steven Bochco (Hill Street Blues); Alan Alda (M*A*S*H); Horton... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Carpetbagger’s Children’ is storytelling at its best Jun 20, 2008
Written in 2002 by master playwright Horton Foote when he was 86, the drama revolves around three sisters who relive their family s history in an era spanning post-Civil War Reconstruction to the present. The Ensemble Theatre production is at The Cleveland Play House through June 29. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
Local club visits historical town, exhibit of army post Jun 14, 2008
She also said the Pulitzer-prize winning author and playwright Horton Foote was also born in Wharton and continues to maintain his home in Wharton. The ladies also toured the Famous Tee Pee Motel which was filmed in scenes from the 1995 remake of Lolita. (Pasadena Citizen, TX)
WGA West honors Budd Schulberg Apr 22, 2008
Previous winners include Billy Wilder, Horton Foote, John Huston, Blake Edwards, Mel Brooks, David Mamet, Lawrence Kasdan, and last year's honoree, Robert Benton. Schulberg's best known for penning "On the Waterfront," which won a Writers Guild award and an Oscar. (Variety)
NIACC announces line-up for 2008-2009 Performing Arts and Leadership Series Apr 17, 2008
In 1962, the story was brought to the screen in an Academy Award-winning adaptation by Horton Foote, and was later adapted for the theater. Although more than 35 years old, this stage adaptation continues to compel and delight viewers worldwide with its warmth, wit, and wisdom. (Mason City Globe-Gazette, IO)
'Adding Machine' tallies Lortel high Apr 1, 2008
RevivalBeckett Shorts - Written by Samuel Beckett; Produced by New York Theatre WorkshopDividing the Estate - Written by Horton Foote; Produced by Primary Stages, in association with Jamie deRoyThe Misanthrope - Written by Molire, Translation by Tony Harrison; Produced by New York Theatre WorkshopOhio State Murders - Written by Adrienne Kennedy; Produced by Theatre for a New AudienceSeussical - Music by Stephen Flaherty, Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, Book by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty,... (Variety)
Chicago sets Horton Foote Festival Mar 8, 2008
Theaters these days seem like they just can't get enough of Horton Foote, the prolific American dramatist who in more than 60 plays has chronicled the vast changes that have come to the small town of Harrison, Texas, a fictitious stand-in for the playwright's own lifelong hometown of Wharton, outside Houston ... That production's director, Harris Yulin, and star Lois Smith are revisiting "Bountiful" as the centerpiece of a Horton Foote Festival currently running at Chicago's Goodman Theater ...... (Variety)
Theater fest targets teen audiences Feb 16, 2008
Over the course of 10 seasons, the program has premiered more than 100 plays for young actors by playwrights as diverse as Alan Ayckbourn, Horton Foote, Peter Gill, Catherine Johnson, Bryony Lavery, Patrick Marber, Mark Ravenhill and Timberlake Wertenbaker. An entire repertoire has been created. (Variety)
Off-Broadway shows offer quite a collection of quirky families Feb 15, 2008
Horton Foote Festival. Chicago's Goodman Theatre salutes the iconic American playwright with productions of Talking Pictures (through March 2), The Trip to Bountiful (March 1-April 6), and two one-act plays, Blind Date and The Actor (Feb. (USA Today -- Life)
Edward Albee: Keeping the threads of life and art separate Nov 13, 2007
Of the generation of theatrical giants who came to international prominence in the 1950s with plays that not only won Tony Awards and Pulitzer Prizes but actually seemed to register in the culture as well, he is the only one, with the possible exception of Horton Foote, still going strong. On the heels of excellent Broadway revivals of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and "Seascape" in 2005, the current theater season includes four major New York-area productions of his work. (International Herald Tribune)
Albee, Foote and Stoppard poised to take Broadway by storm, again Sep 10, 2007
They are Horton Foote, 91; Edward Albee, who turns 80 in March; and Tom Stoppard, a mere 70, all luxuriantly creative and productive artists, whose collected works could fill a library wing. They are also three of the strongest, most individual and most abidingly relevant voices in theater. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
PLAYBILL ON OPENING NIGHT: Old Acquaintance Friend and Fiend Jul 1, 2007
" Wilson's next New York assignment is Dividing the Estate, the Horton Foote play at Primary Stages. "I have till Aug. 19 off," he said. "I'm going back up to Hartford Stage [where he is in his ninth season as artistic director. We close Lynn Redgrave's Nightingale tomorrow night that's her play about her grandmother. (Playbill.com)
Dramatists a hoot Apr 27, 2007
But it was venerable scribe Horton Foote who closed the show with the night's most popular acceptance speech for his lifetime achievement honor. Accepting the award from his seat, the 91-year old regaled a well-turned-out crowd with tales of his first forays in theater, including his unheralded 1930s acting debut at the Hudson itself playing "a Mexican boy.". (Variety)
Trouble hounds a sleepy town in 'The Chase' Apr 18, 2007
As seen in Theatrical Outfit s finely executed production of Horton Foote s The Chase, those old-school touches are evidence of the way the beloved Texas-born playwright was influenced by both classic realism and 1950s television. Known as the Chekhov of the small town, the author of The Trip to Bountiful and The Young Man From Atlanta honed his craft early on as a writer of TV dramas, many of which were later produced onstage. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Living)
Tech theatre students take UIL's center stage Mar 18, 2007
The play, by Horton Foote, is set in the 1950's and illustrates a woman's struggle to escape her current situation by returning to the place she grew up, her pilgrimage to Bountiful and the emotions of returning to place that has changed. "The project was brought to us at the beginning of the semester, and I thought, 'Why do we have to do it. It's pointless,'" O'Conner said. (McKinney Courier-Gazette, TX)
Coming of age in the racially troubled South Mar 16, 2007
A year later it was made into a movie with an Academy Award-winning screenplay by Southern playwright Horton Foote. Oregon Stage Works will stage Christopher Sergel's adaptation of the book next week. (Mail Tribune, OR)
NLCC presents awards Feb 25, 2007
The NLCC presented the Richard Wright Literary Excellence Award to two authors with Mississippi connections, and the Horton Foote Award for Special Achievement in Screenwriting to a Californian with Mississippi ties ... A Vicksburg native, Charles Burnett, received the Horton Foote Award for Special Achievement in Screenwriting ... He, too, has earned many awards for his achievements, but none so special as the Horton Foote award, Burnett said. (Natchez Democrat, MS)
Curt Dempster, Founder of Ensemble Studio Theater, Dies at 71 Jan 21, 2007
Jan. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Curt Dempster, whose Ensemble Studio Theater produced important new work by such playwrights as David Mamet, Horton Foote, Christopher Durang and Wendy Wasserstein, was found dead today in his apartment in New York's Greenwich Village. He was 71. (Bloomberg)
Nassau notes Jan 8, 2007
ACT also will have auditions for The Trip to Bountiful by Horton Foote at 7 p.m. Jan. 15 and 17 at the theater. Five men and three women are needed. (Florida Times-Union)
Things to do in Nassau Jan 5, 2007
The drama, written by Horton Foote, will be directed by Charles Horton, and performances are in March. Call 261-6749 for more information. (Florida Times-Union)
