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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? . . .