Could it be that plays about families are making a comeback on Broadway?.After the remarkable triumph of August: Osage County, in which we met a family that defined the word "dysfunctional," we now meet a somehwat more normal clan created out of the fertile mind of Horton Foote in Dividing the Estate, the dark comedy that has transferred from its critically acclaimed run last season at Primary Stages to Broadway's Booth Theatre.

This work is not the little, quiet, and delicate dissection of Southern life and the people who live it that we've come to expect from this celebrated playwright. Instead, it's a southern gothic comedy about family and avarice that is full of well-earned belly-lau[...]