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New York Times

Inherit the Windfall
The problems confronting the sprawling, anxious, compulsively talky Texan clan of 1987 in “Dividing the Estate” will be familiar to many American families at the moment.

Drop Me Off at Broadway, 1944
The fleet’s in this weekend, at least on 55th Street, where a radiant production of “On the Town” has docked at City Center through Sunday.

A Jersey Boy’s Moment as Broadway’s New Pal
Christian Hoff has his first shot at a major leading role with the lead in Roundabout Theater Company’s revival of “Pal Joey.”

Pulling the Plug on Digital Bonding
“Super Vision” is an audacious meditation on the erosion of privacy.

A King Becomes the Fool in a South Seas Scandal
The whimsical “Jester of Tonga” is a rare example of puppet theater about bad investments.

New York Daily News

'Dividing the Estate' is hysterical
Ham, anyone? It's on the dinner table and at center stage in Horton Foote's "Dividing the Estate," a lighthearted look at a fractious family facing financial straits.

'On the Town' Broadway revival lacks pizzazz
How do you do "On the Town," a show that's all about celebrating New York, and virtually erase the city from the proceedings? The result is tall-on-concept, short-on-pizzazz....

Hot Seats: Theater and comedy picks for this weekend
Family-friendly Shrek the Musical comes to the Broadway Theatre. If green ogres aren't your thing, head to the Booth Theatre for some drama in Dividing the...

amNY

Theater Review of Dividing the Estate
No one would suspect 92-year-old Horton Foote, a gentle playwright whose 60 tenderhearted plays include “A Young Man from Atlanta” and “The Trip to Bountiful,” of writing a vigorous piece of political theater.

Theater Review of On the Town
Do not judge the groundbreaking 1944 Broadway musical “On the Town” by its lame 1949 MGM movie version starring Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra.

Hair's Broadway Logo

Newsday

'A Christmas Carol' at Theatre Three

Review: 'The Smell of the Kill'

Curtain goes up on Adelphi Performing Arts Center

New York Post

Michael Riedel: Constrictive criticism
Shrinking circle still guards its secrets

It's a helluva 'Town'
It may be 64 years old, but 1944's "On the Town," now enjoying a brief revival at Encores!, still bursts with the freshness...

'Estate' wealth of old-fashioned charm
Horton Foote's "Dividing the Estate" - about a rapacious Southern family tangling over finances - contains echoes of ...

Cindy Adams: Sex-trafficking vital issue to bold actress
...Horton Foote's "Dividing the Es tate" opened last night at his "favor ite theater," the Booth. Mr. Foote has a Pulitzer, an Emmy, a Tony nomination and two Oscars - one for the screenplay of Gregory Peck's all-time great film "To Kill a Mockingbird." So, how exactly does Horton Foote, 92, write? ...

New York Journal-News

Anything goes in Scarsdale

ny1

"American Buffalo" Could Close Within A Week Of Opening

Time Out New York Blog

Mr. Roboto
You have only a couple of days left to catch Jester of Tonga, Joseph Silovsky’s utterly enchanting puppet-video-robot show at P.S. 122. This slice of serious whimsy doesn’t really have a plot; Silovsky appears as a ...

Dreamgirls talent search comes to the Apollo…

Hartford Courant

New York Stage: Horton Foote's 'Dividing The Estate'

Stage Review: The Seafarer

Bergen Record

Theater review: Dividing the Estate
In the recent presidential campaign, one candidate kept extolling the virtues of small towns, citing them as nurturing the best of America's values. She's never seen a Horton Foote play, I betcha.

Albany Times-Union

Tanglewood 2009 season announced
A celebration of flutist James Galway's 70th birthday, a full staging of Mozart's "Don Giovanni" and a concert performance of the third act of Wagner's "Die Meistersinger" will be among the highlights of the recently announced 2009 season of Tanglewood, the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Lenox, Mass.