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Horton Foote Withdraws Dividing the Estate from Lortel Awards

By: Brian Scott Lipton · Apr 3, 2008  · New York

Horton Foote<br>
(© Joseph Marzullo/Retna)
Horton Foote
(© Joseph Marzullo/Retna)
Horton Foote has withdrawn his play Dividing the Estate from consideration for this year's Lucille Lortel Awards, after the committee nominated it as Outstanding Revival.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright contends that he did substantial rewrites on the play, which was presented last fall at Primary Stages, since its debut at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton in 1989, and should be considered a new work. The Lortel Administration Committee chose to stand by their original decision. The play is a comedy about a 1980s Texas family that must confront its troubled past as it prepares for its future.

A Broadway production of the show, to be directed by Michael Wilson, will begin performances October 23, with an opening set for November 20. It will be co-produced by Lincoln Center Theatre and Primary Stages, and will reunite the entire 13-person Off-Broadway cast, which includes Elizabeth Ashley, Hallie Foote, Penny Fuller, Devon Abner, James DeMarse, Pat Bowie, Arthur French, Virginia Kull, Maggie Lacey, Nicole Lowrance, Gerald McRaney, Jenny Dare Paulin, and Keiana Richard.




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