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Associated Press

Greed gets the best of those 'Dividing the Estate'
Nothing concentrates the mind like money — or lack of it. And money has provided the plot for more than a few plays, one good example being "Dividing the Estate," Horton Foote's hilariously perceptive take on what good old-fashioned greed does to one cash-strapped Texas family.

City Center's 'On the Town' remains forever young
Some Broadway melodies never get old. Consider the music Leonard Bernstein composed for "On the Town." It's among the musical theater's most youthful and exuberant.

USA Today

'Dividing the Estate' is split between charming, boring

Bloomberg.com

Feuding Texans, Tightwad Ashley Tangle in ‘Estate’: John Simon

Wall Street Journal

'Road' to Nowhere
Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman got their wish: "Road Show" finally made it to New York. But the much-revised musical isn't up to the high standards of its creators.

Variety

Off Off Broadway scene suffering
'Tis the season to announce closings. According to a survey from the New York Innovative Theater Foundation, more than 25% of the Off Off Broadway venues in New York's theater-heavy West Village and Midtown neighborhoods have closed in the last five years.

'Sister Act' hits sky high sales
West End production to open June 2

Broadway dims lights for critic Barnes
Theater community pays respects

Review: Dividing the Estate
This sweetly satirical comedy about a Texas family squaring off over their inheritance could almost be unfolding in 2008, but Horton Foote wrote the play 20 years ago and set it against the economic turmoil of the late '80s.

Review: On the Town
The Bronx is still up and the Battery down, and "On the Town" remains a helluva show. That's the word just in from City Center, where Encores! has contributed to this fall's cornucopious Leonard Bernstein festival with the musical that first took the remarkable Lenny out of the concert hall and put him on the showbiz A-list.

Review: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
When a big-budget special-effects Broadway musical with a huge cast is streamlined for the road, that usually indicates a producer's code for a watered-down, pallid version of the original. But the first national tour of "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" that kicked off in Fort Lauderdale this week remains a lush, inventive fairy tale that will dazzle audiences ...

Back Stage

Snow Business
Cast members of Irving Berlin's White Christmas talk to Back Stage about their famous roles and what happens when movie musicals take to the stage

Dividing the Estate reviewed by David Sheward
Though it was written almost 20 years ago and is set in 1987, Horton Foote's Dividing the Estate feels as if it could be happening right now.

Macbeth reviewed by Ron Cohen
The concept's the thing, rather than the play, in this staging of Macbeth, which lays a veneer of modern-day gangland sex and violence on Shakespeare's epic of moral corruption in 11th-century Scotland.