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NY1 Theater Review: "Dividing The Estate"

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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.

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? . . .