Archives for: November 2008, 21
ATW Digest - Foote's Dividing the Estate arrives on B'way - read the reviews [updated]
By Andy Propst on Nov 21, 2008 | In ATW Digest
ADDITION - 11/21/08 - 1:52PM EST
ny1
NY1 Theater Review: "Dividing The Estate"
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.
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.
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.
New York Post
'Estate' wealth of old-fashioned charm
Horton Foote's "Dividing the Estate" - about a rapacious Southern family tangling over finances - contains echoes of ...
Hartford Courant
New York Stage: Horton Foote's 'Dividing The Estate'
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.
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.
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.
[includes 'Dividing the Estate' review]
Variety
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
Back 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.
TheaterMania
Review: Dividing the Estate
Horton Foote's dark comedy about family members at their most venal makes a successful transfer to Broadway.
Talkin' Broadway
Review: Dividing the Estate
In Dividing the Estate, the play by Horton Foote that Lincoln Center Theater is presenting at the Booth, the Gordon family of Harrison, Texas, and their family home for generations are disintegrating as the land surrounding them is consumed by death and taxes. How can one elegant (but crumbling) old manse and its less-than-elegant (and crumbling) inhabitants maintain their identity and propriety under constant siege from Big Industry and economic neglect? . . .
ATW Digest - On the Town plays Encores! - read the reviews [updated]
By Andy Propst on Nov 21, 2008 | In ATW Digest
ADDITION - 11/21/08 - 11:15AM EST
Talkin' Broadway
Review: On the Town
City Center Encores! has become renowned around town for its annual commitment to presenting elaborate concerts of musicals' scores that might otherwise misplace or diminish. But with the new Encores! production of On the Town, running through Sunday, there's reason to suspect that the venerable series may heretofore have missed - or at least undervalued - an even higher calling: dance. . . .
New York Times
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.
New York Daily News
'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....
amNY
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
New York Post
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...
Associated Press
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.
TheaterMania
Review: On the Town
Encores! presents a polished staging of the just-about-perfect 1944 musical.
Back Stage
On the Town (In Concert) reviewed by David Sheward
Director John Rando has given this tale of three sailors on a 24-hour leave in World War II Gotham a fully realized production full of life, excitement, elaborate comic bits, and three-dimensional characters.
Variety
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.
ATW Overnight Digest - On the Town at Encores! - initial reviews
By Andy Propst on Nov 21, 2008 | In ATW Digest
amNY
Theater Review of On the Town
Associated Press
City Center's 'On the Town' remains forever young
Variety
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.
Back Stage
On the Town (In Concert) reviewed by David Sheward
Director John Rando has given this tale of three sailors on a 24-hour leave in World War II Gotham a fully realized production full of life, excitement, elaborate comic bits, and three-dimensional characters.
TheaterMania
Review: On the Town
Encores! presents a polished staging of the just-about-perfect 1944 musical.
ATW Overnight Digest - Horton Foote's Dividing the Estate - initial reviews
By Andy Propst on Nov 21, 2008 | In ATW Digest
New York Times
Inherit the Windfall
But safely distanced by footlights, someone like Mary Jo, one of three squabbling siblings in Horton Foote’s tart and delicious “Dividing the Estate,” is heaven to be with. As played with true comic genius by Hallie Foote, the covetous, calculating Mary Jo has absolutely no sense of humor. But it’s hard to think of anyone on a Broadway stage right now (except possibly Mark Rylance in “Boeing-Boeing”) who’s funnier.
New York Daily News
Broadway's 'Dividing the Estate' is a light take on a heavy family
Variety
Review: Dividing the Estate
Back 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.
Associated Press
Greed gets the best of those 'Dividing the Estate'
amNY
Theater Review of Dividing the Estate
USA Today
'Dividing the Estate' is split between charming, boring
TheaterMania
Review: Dividing the Estate
Horton Foote's dark comedy about family members at their most venal makes a successful transfer to Broadway.
Talkin' Broadway
Review: Dividing the Estate
In Dividing the Estate, the play by Horton Foote that Lincoln Center Theater is presenting at the Booth, the Gordon family of Harrison, Texas, and their family home for generations are disintegrating as the land surrounding them is consumed by death and taxes. How can one elegant (but crumbling) old manse and its less-than-elegant (and crumbling) inhabitants maintain their identity and propriety under constant siege from Big Industry and economic neglect? . . .
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