Hilton Als: Horton Foote’s three acts. Oct 19, 2009
The career of Horton Foote : The New Yorker ... Horton Foote s three acts ... ABSTRACT: A CRITIC AT LARGE about playwright and screenwriter Horton Foote. (New Yorker)
Playwright Sarah Ruhl has works set for Boston, Broadway Oct 11, 2009
Horton Foote went through it. Edward Albee went through it. (Boston Globe)
'Road' a solid start to season on Foote Sep 18, 2009
Audiences will be able to take in four works by Horton Foote, who received a 1995 Pulitzer Prize for "The Young Man from Atlanta" and Academy Awards for his screenplays 1962's "To Kill A Mockingbird" and 1983's "Tender Mercies.". But Foote who died in March after a career that spanned more than 60 years was a prolific writer of shorter works as well. (Honolulu Advertiser)
Fall theater productions Sep 13, 2009
THE ORPHANS HOME CYCLE The idea of home is at the center of this cycle of three plays by the late Horton Foote. With his usual attention to the details of daily life in a small town, Foote chronicles the journey of Horace Robedaux from childhood (marked by his father s death) to adulthood, marriage, and the eventual role of family patriarch. (Boston Globe)
Former First Lady Laura Bush Announces the Blockbuster Author Line-Up for the 2009 Texas Book Festival Sep 4, 2009
Past recipients include Cormac McCarthy, Sandra Cisneros, and Horton Foote, among others. Others topping the list of children's authors are Jon Scieszka, Rosemary Wells, Libba Bray, and Judy Schachner. (PR Newswire)
Hartford Stage preps Horton Foote’s ‘Orphans’ Home Cycle’ Aug 30, 2009
Hartford Stage preps Horton Foote s Orphans Home Cycle - The Boston Globe ... PHOTOS BY STEVE MILLER FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE; SARA KRULWICH/THE NEW YORK TIMES/file 2007 (BOTTOM)Director Michael Wilson (above left) and playwright Horton Foote s daughter Hallie (above right) are the guiding forces behind the production of The Orphans Home Cycle at the Hartford Stage ... Add in the fact that the playwright, Horton Foote, died earlier this year at the age of 92, not long after adapting the plays into a... (Boston Globe)
City Beat (4) Aug 16, 2009
Bodwin Theatre Company presents a staged reading of Horton Foote s The Trip to Bountiful tonight (Fri. and Sat. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
Actor Harve Presnell dies of cancer at 75 Jul 2, 2009
Presnell even played the dashing Rhett Butler in a musical version of "Gone with the Wind" (adapted by Horton Foote and with a score by Harold Rome) that was seen in London in 1972. For a good part of his career, Presnell portrayed the wealthy, follicle-challenged Daddy Warbucks in various incarnations of "Annie." The actor was first offered the role in a tour of "Annie" and thought the title was a show business abbreviation for "Annie, Get Your Gun," the musical in which he had once played... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Broadway: Retro style Jun 5, 2009
Throw in a new play starring James Gandolfini and Jeff Daniels ("God of Carnage"), a revival with Susan Sarandon and Geoffrey Rush ("Exit the King"), a new musical that should make a star out of Alice Ripley ("Next to Normal") and the last play from Horton Foote ("Dividing the Estate") and this was definitely a year of diversity on Broadway. A record-setting year. (Sioux City Journal, IO)
Writer list for WOW is notable May 29, 2009
She is a member of Western Writers of America and the Texas Philosophical Society, and was selected the honored writer for 2006 Texas Writers Month, joining previous honorees O. Henry, J. Frank Dobie, John Graves, Larry McMurtry, Cormac McCarthy, Katherine Anne Porter, Elmer Kelton, Liz Carpenter, Sarah Bird, James Michener and Horton Foote. Her first novel, The Raven s Bride, was the 2006 Texas Reads: One Book One Texas selection. (Alpine Avalanche, TX)
'Billy Elliot' tops Tony nomination list May 6, 2009
For best play, the nominees are Yasmina Reza's tale of polite parents turned feral, "God of Carnage"; Neil LaBute's acerbic wronged-love story, "Reasons to Be Pretty"; Moises Kaufman's Beethoven-inspired "33 Variations"; and the family drama "Dividing the Estate," by the late Horton Foote. Paulus is the only best-director nominee to have directed a musical revival; as director, she'll be up against Stephen Daldry for "Billy Elliot," Michael Greif for "Next to Normal," and Kristin Hanggi for... (Boston Globe)
Film brings Horton Foote's final work to life May 2, 2009
Horton Foote died in March, leaving behind the screenplay for ''Main Street ... Bringing Horton Foote's final screenplay to life is not one of them. (Boston Globe)
From the News Desk — Forum has brought big names to Brenham Mar 21, 2009
One of the most enjoyable speakers was Horton Foote, one of the most notable literary figures in the country. We were reminded of Foote s visit when we read about his recent death at the age of 92. (Brenham Banner, TX)
'Horton by the Stream' theater company back for another season Mar 16, 2009
Works of late Horton Foote to be performed ... TANNERSVILLE - Horton by the Stream producer Frank Girardeau had no trouble getting permission from playwright Horton Foote to stage his plays in the company's outdoor Elka Park theater. (Catskill Daily Mail, NY)
Friday Night Lights, Season 3 Mar 15, 2009
Meanwhile, Lorraine Saracen's house is looking especially like the set of a Horton Foote play. Matt falls asleep on the couch watching a cooking show that could not possibly be aired in the year 2009. (Slate)
Horton Foote, an appreciation Mar 7, 2009
As a playwright, Horton Foote grappled with the great themes of human existence: love, despair, home, family, identity, redemption. And he often found them all in the lives of people in the little town of Harrison, Texas, the fictional setting for many of his works. (Yahoo News)
Remaining Beatles to reunite Mar 6, 2009
" Prolific playwright Foote dies at 92 in Connecticut Playwright and screenwriter Horton Foote, who movingly portrayed the broken dreams of common people in "The Trip to Bountiful," "Tender Mercies" and his Oscar-winning screen adaptation of "To Kill a Mockingbird," died Wednesday in Connecticut. He was 92. Foote died in his sleep in his apartment in Hartford where he was preparing work on "The Orphans' Home Cycle," a collection of nine plays, for next September at the nonprofit theater. Foote... (Erie Times-News, PA)
Horton Foote - famed playwright - dies Mar 6, 2009
Playwright and screenwriter Horton Foote, who movingly portrayed the broken dreams of common people in "The Trip to Bountiful," "Tender Mercies" and his Oscar-winning screen adaptation of "To Kill a Mockingbird," died Wednesday in Connecticut, Paul Marte, a spokesman for Hartford Stage, said. He was 92. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Jane Alexander: Jindal's wrong on... Mar 5, 2009
Alexander: It had a good play last year, "Dividing the Estate," by Horton Foote, which got a lot of attention but I don't think it made back its nut on Broadway. It transferred from the nonprofit to a commercial venue on Broadway. (CNN -- Law)
Horton Foote, great American storyteller, dies at 92 Mar 5, 2009
Horton Foote, who chronicled a wistful American odyssey through the 20th century in plays and films mostly set in a small town in Texas and who left a literary legacy as one of the country's foremost storytellers, died Wednesday in Hartford, Connecticut ... Albert Horton Foote Jr., one of three sons of Albert Horton Foote and the former Hallie Brooks, was born March 14, 1916 in Wharton, Texas, a small town southwest of Houston. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Festival considers O'Neill in the 21st century Feb 26, 2009
"Here's an author who was very much formed in the 19th century and defined American drama in the 20th century. I wanted to see if these plays are still relevant in the 21st century."His work is hard, and his work is tough, and it tends to be pessimistic, but I look at O'Neill as an artist for all time," he said. Falls, who has previously mounted festivals celebrating the work of Edward Albee, David Mamet, August Wilson and Horton Foote, said it took only 18 months to assemble the offerings,... (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
'To Kill a Mockingbird' coming to NIACC Feb 8, 2009
Harper Lee s Pulitzer-Prize winning novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, now celebrating the 50th anniversary of its publication, was brought to the screen in an Academy Award-winning adaptation by Horton Foote in 1962 and was later adapted for the stage by Christopher Sergel ... Recent highly successful tours have included Lost in Yonkers, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Trip to Bountiful and Steel Magnolias and past seasons have included works by Tennessee Williams, Wendy Wasserstein, Neil Simon, Arthur... (Mason City Globe-Gazette, IO)
