ACT Presents THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL As Well As Dance, Theatre, Visual Art Events
by Gabrielle Sierra - April 15, 2010 Basic Monthly Members of ACT - A Contemporary Theatre have plenty to see in the month of May, featuring the debut of new works from KT Niehoff / Lingo Dance, New Century Theatre Company, SOIL Artist-Run Gallery, RAWSTOCK, and Hedgebrook's Women Playwrights Festival, as well as the 2010 Mainstage sea...
Different Stages' THE CARPETBAGGER'S CHILDREN Continues Through 4/10
by Charlie Piane - April 09, 2010 Different Stages continues its 2009-2010 season with The Carpetbagger's Children by Horton Foote, Pulitzer Prize and Oscar winning author of plays and screenplays such as The Trip to Bountiful, Tender Mercies and To Kill a Mockingbird....
Hallie Foote To Star In Hartford Stage/Signature's THE ORPHANS' HOME CYCLE
by Eddie Varley - May 29, 2009 2009 Tony Award nominee Hallie Foote (Dividing the Estate) will be featured in the cast of THE ORPHANS' HOME CYCLE, the nine-play three part theatrical event by her late father, the Pulitzer Prize and Academy Award winning playwright Horton Foote, which will be co-produced in the 2009-2010 season by...
STAGE TUBE: Cast of THE ILLUSION Celebrates Opening Night!
by Nicole Rosky - July 12, 2011 Signature Theatre Company celebrated opening night of Tony Kushner's THE ILLUSION last month. The show features Peter Bartlett (The Drowsy Chaperone, 'One Life to Live'), Sean Dugan (Next Fall, 'Oz'), David Margulies (Conversations With My Father, Wonderful Town), Amanda Quaid (Equus, Banished Chil...
Actress Hallie Foote Discusses Her Portrayal of Her Father's Characters
by Jeff Dennhardt - December 14, 2009 Since making her off-off-Broadway debut in the play Courtship, Hallie Foote has almost exclusively devoted herself to playing roles in her father's plays. Most recently, Foote starred as Mary Jo in Dividing the Estate, a role for which she received her first Tony nomination. ...
THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL Plays Clevland Playhouse 2/4-2/27
by Kassie Rivera - January 21, 2011 A haunting American classic, THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL marks the first Cleveland Play House production of a work by Pulitzer Prize- and Academy Award-winner Horton Foote, and the world-premiere performance of this play by an African-American cast. Receiving the blessing of Hallie Foote, daughter of the ...
Hartford & NY Signature to Team to Present Foote's 'Orphans' Home Cycle'
by Eddie Varley - January 22, 2009 THE ORPHANS' HOME CYCLE, a world premiere production of nine plays by Horton Foote that have been newly adapted by the Pulitzer Prize and Academy Award-winning playwright into a three-part theatrical event, will be co-produced in the 2009-2010 season by Signature Theatre Company (James Houghton, Fou...
Horton Foote, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright and Academy Award Winner Dead at 92
by Eddie Varley - March 04, 2009 The New York Times reports the sad news that Horton Foote, who chronicled America's many voices and many lives and who will leave a dramatic and literary legacy as one of the country's greatest storytellers, has passed away today in Hartford, Connecticut. He was 92, said his daughter Hallie Foote....
Different Stages Presents THE CARPETBAGGER'S CHILDREN Through 4/10
by Mary Hanrahan - March 25, 2010 Different Stages continues its 2009-2010 season with The Carpetbagger's Children by Horton Foote, Pulitzer Prize and Oscar winning author of plays and screenplays such as The Trip to Bountiful, Tender Mercies and To Kill a Mockingbird....
Sands Theater Presents THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL 11/6-22
by BWW News Desk - November 22, 2009 The Trip to Bountiful is set in 1947 Houston. Forced by circumstances to live her loathsome son and daughter-in-law, Carrie Watts wants nothing more out of life than to return to her home town of Bountiful. Escaping from her family's clutches, Carrie boards a bus to Bountiful, where she makes the ac...
Lois Smith Joins 'Desperate Housewives' This Season
by Jessica Lewis - August 30, 2010 TVGuide.com reports that Lois Smith will be the newest member of Wasteria Lane this upcoming season, playing the role of 'Allison Scavo,' mother to 'Tom (played by Soug Savant). Smith's character will be taking up residence with 'Lynette' (Felicity Huffman) and 'Tom' in order to help him beat a case...
Sands Theater Presents THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL 11/6-22
by BWW News Desk - November 06, 2009 The Trip to Bountiful is set in 1947 Houston. Forced by circumstances to live her loathsome son and daughter-in-law, Carrie Watts wants nothing more out of life than to return to her home town of Bountiful. Escaping from her family's clutches, Carrie boards a bus to Bountiful, where she makes the ac...
Hartford & NY Signature to Team to Present Foote's 'Orphans' Home Cycle'
by Eddie Varley - January 22, 2009 THE ORPHANS' HOME CYCLE, a world premiere production of nine plays by Horton Foote that have been newly adapted by the Pulitzer Prize and Academy Award-winning playwright into a three-part theatrical event, will be co-produced in the 2009-2010 season by Signature Theatre Company (James Houghton, Fou...
BUS STOP To Close At KC Rep 4/3
by BWW News Desk - April 03, 2010 After a critically-acclaimed run at Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Bus Stop, directed by Steven Cosson of The Civilians, closes Saturday, April 3....
BWW Reviews: Group Rep Offers Lovely Trip to Bountiful
by Don Grigware - January 31, 2011 In his lovely script The Trip to Bountiful Horton Foote engages our attention with his keen appraisal that 'The world can't be bought'. Believing the best things in life are free - well, almost..., elderly Carrie Watts (Gwen Van Dam) proves just how healing a return to one's roots, however brief, ma...
Quotidian Theatre Company Presents THE SEAFARER, 11/12-12/12
by Lauren Wolman - October 31, 2010 The Quotidian Theatre presents The Seafarer, a Sinister Comedy for the Holiday Season by CONOR McPHERSON from November 12 - December 12, 2010. ...
Lineup Announced For Foote Festival 3/14-5/1
by BWW News Desk - March 13, 2011 Dallas-Fort Worth arts organizations and cultural instituutions participating in the metroplex-wide Foote Festival have announced festival selections and events. The Foote Festival, March 14 - May 1, 2011, will celebrate the life and work of the late, award winning, Texas playwright Horton Foote (Ma...
Lineup Announced For Foote Festival 3/14-5/1
by Sophie Schulman - November 20, 2010 Dallas-Fort Worth arts organizations and cultural instituutions participating in the metroplex-wide Foote Festival have announced festival selections and events. The Foote Festival, March 14 - May 1, 2011, will celebrate the life and work of the late, award winning, Texas playwright Horton Foote (Ma...
Quotidian Theatre Company Presents THE SEAFARER, 11/12-12/12
by BWW News Desk - November 12, 2010 The Quotidian Theatre presents The Seafarer, a Sinister Comedy for the Holiday Season by CONOR McPHERSON from November 12 - December 12, 2010. ...
39 STEPS, KITE RUNNER & More Part of Cleveland Play House's '10-11 Season
by BWW News Desk - February 27, 2011 Cleveland Play House Artistic Director Michael Bloom announces the 2010-11 Season lineup - the final one at the historic venue on 85th and Euclid Avenue before relocating to downtown Cleveland's Theater District in the fall of 2011. A re-imagining of an American classic by Horton Foote, Midwest prem...
THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL Begins Performances at The Quotidian Theatre, 4/16
by Jeff Dennhardt - April 04, 2010 Horton Foote's play, THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL, will begin performances at The Quotidian Theatre on April 16th. The theatre will continue with the production, despite the cancellation of The Tribute to the Life and Work of Horton Foote, which has been postponed until later this year....
39 STEPS, KITE RUNNER & More Part of Cleveland Play House's '10-11 Season
by BWW News Desk - January 30, 2011 Cleveland Play House Artistic Director Michael Bloom announces the 2010-11 Season lineup - the final one at the historic venue on 85th and Euclid Avenue before relocating to downtown Cleveland's Theater District in the fall of 2011. A re-imagining of an American classic by Horton Foote, Midwest prem...
Homecomings, Gender Politics, Music, and More Take Center Stage at ACT
by Gabrielle Sierra - May 17, 2010 ACT - A Contemporary Theatre breaks into summer with the continuation of Horton Foote's The Trip to Bountiful and the SOIL at ACT art installations, and welcomes the Seattle premiere of the hilarious The Female of the Species by Joanna Murray-Smith....
Thespis Theatre Closes THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL, 3/20
by BWW News Desk - March 20, 2010 The Thespis Theatre Company will offer its next production in residence at Sandglass Theater, Putney, VT, the first three weekends in March. ...
The Denver Center Prepares for Laughs with WELL and ABSURD PERSON CINGULAR, 11/6 - 12/19
by BWW News Desk - October 23, 2009 Comedy takes over at the Denver Center Theatre Company for this pre-holiday season - Lisa Kron's funny autobiographical comedy Well opens the 2009/10 season in The Ricketson Theatre and Absurd Person Singular, Alan Ayckbourn's uproarious adult comedy set on three consecutive Christmas Eves warms up ... |