New Stage Theatre Presents DIVIDING THE ESTATE, 4/13-25

New Stage Theatre will be presenting Horton Foote's Dividing the Estate April 13-25 at the Jane Reid-Petty Theatre Center.  Performances take place at 7:30PM and at 2:30PM on April 15 and 22.  For tickets, call 601-948-3533.

Dividing the Estate revolves around matriarch StElla Gordon is determined not to divide her 100-year old Texas estate, despite her family s declining wealth and the looming financial crisis.  But her three children have another plan.  Old resentments and sibling rivalries surface, as the members of this hilariously dysfunctional family go head to head to see who might claim the biggest piece of the pie in Dividing the Estate.

Founded in 1965, New Stage Theatre is Mississippi's only not-for-profit professional theatre.  New Stage is committed to producing important contemporary works and classics, selected for their artistic merit and their power to illuminate the human condition. Challenging new works in development are included through the Eudora Welty New Play Series named for the distinguished writer who helped found New Stage.

The theatre is dedicated to cultivating and educating a culturally diverse audience by gathering the finest available resources including playwrights, actors directors, designers, technicians, administrators, trainees, and board members. Integral to the theatre's total effort, its education department maximizes its potential by offering artistic and technical internships, by mounting intern touring programs supported by teachers' materials for schools statewide, and by developing curricula for and teaching youth and adult classes.