Horton Foote chronicles a man’s search for family (AP via Yahoo! News)
WorkAtHome (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Don’t be fooled by the deceptively gentle way Part 1 of Horton Foote’s extraordinary “Orphans’ Home Cycle” initially unfolds.
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Horton Foote Enhances Harper Lee
clusterflock (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Film version, To Kill a Mockingbird. Screenplay by Horton Foote. Atticus on the porch, overhearing the bedtime conversation of his children. Jem? Uh-huh. How old was I when Mama died? Two. How old were you? Six. Was Mama pretty? Uh-huh. Was she nice? Uh-huh. Did you love her? Yes. Did I love her? Yes. Do you miss her? Uh-huh.
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Foote’s Final Work, ‘The Orphans’ Home Cycle’, Premieres Off-Broadway (Playbill via Yahoo! News)
WorkAtHome (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The Story of a Childhood - the first three plays in late Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Horton Foote’s nine-play epic, The Orphans’ Home Cycle - dawns Off-Broadway Nov. 5 at Signature Theatre Company’s home.
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Horten Foote: The playwright's 'Odyssey' for modern times
Christian Science Monitor (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Epic nine-hour 'The Orphan's Home Cycle,' opening in New York, explores how people face adversity and the elusive search for home.
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Robert Duvall, Scott Cooper Interview, Crazy Heart
MoviesOnline! (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
... a mentor to him: Robert Duvall, who himself won an Oscar playing a down-and-out country singer in Horton Foote?s beloved classic, Tender Mercies. Duvall?s response changed everything. ?When you send a script to Robert Duvall and he says ?Yes,? that?s pretty much all that you could ever dream about,? muses Cooper. It was far more than just a relationship that sealed the deal, however....
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The Orphans' Home Cycle (Part 1)
Critic-O-Meter (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
GRADE: A- (photo by Gregory Constanzo) PICTURE (upload from computer) By Horton Foote. Directed by Michael Wilson. Signature Theatre. Through Mar. 28. In a bittersweet irony worthy of the playwright himself, Horton Foote is receiving possibly his warmest embrace less than a year after he died at 92, with the first installment (subtitled "The Story of a Childhood")...
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Best Plays 2007-2008
The Playgoer (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
... season. In the new '07-'08 volume (yes, we're a little behind, sorry) I discuss the merits of Horton Foote's Dividing the Estate . And what better time to revisit that play than now, when the Signature Theatre's marathon of his epic cycle is getting underway to wide acclaim and when a full biography of the writer has just been published. Here's a teaser from my intro: Horton...
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Crazy Heart
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
For those who have seen "Tender Mercies," the 1983 picture that won Academy Awards for star Robert Duvall and screenwriter Horton Foote, this will seem like deja vu all over again, not only due to the story trajectory of a broken-down country singer tended to by a youthful woman and her young son, but also the presence of Duvall here as a producer and supporting actor. That said, just...
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Heart of a Small Town, Vast in Its Loneliness - New York Times
WorkAtHome (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
TheaterMania.com Heart of a Small Town, Vast in Its LonelinessNew York Times“The Orphans' Home Cycle”: Jenny Dare Paulin and Bill Heck in the first installment of Horton Foote's nine-play cycle at the Signature Theater. …The Orphans' Home Cycle: Part OneTheaterMania.comHorton Foote chronicles a man's search for familySan Francisco Chronicleall 9 news articles...
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Today's Roundup
The Playgoer (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
-In today's Times, Ben Brantley goes gaga for Part I of the Horton Foote "Orphan's Home" marathon, and the " Escapes " Travel section of all places discovers that Seattle actually has some theatre! -Did a play ever change your life? Well maybe you can win a prize from the American Theatre Wing for telling them about it in 350 words or less. You have until November...
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Theater Review | 'The Orphans' Home Cycle': Heart of a Small Town, Vast in Its Loneliness
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
The first part of Horton Foote’s “Orphans’ Home Cycle” is a thrilling demonstration of an artist soaring into the realm of the epic.
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TT: Home, at last
About Last Night (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
This has been a wonderful week for New York-area theater, so busy that it took two columns in The Wall...
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Theater brings business to downtown
Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
... University of Central Florida decided to abandon the curriculum for that week and instead screen Horton Foote's 1997 movie "Alone," because,...Tags: , , , , Nov 3, 2009 |Story| Associated Press Bernerd Harding CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Bernerd Harding, a World War II pilot from New Hampshire who went on a quest to find his buried pilot's wings in Germany 65 years after his B-24 bomber...
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How Do They Memorize All Those Lines?
Gothamist (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
... firing of 49-year-old actor Matt Mulhern, who hid some lines inside his hat to stay on cue during Horton Foote’s nine hour play cycle. Mulhern tells the Times he was "emotionally devastated" by the dismissal, the first of his 27-year career. But he also acknowledged he had “ruffled feathers” during rehearsals for other reasons. As for Broderick, theater...