Horton Foote’s The Traveling Lady Will Be Revived by EST
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Horton Foote’s 1954 drama The Traveling Lady will be revived by the Ensemble Studio Theatre, March 1-19. The show, which will open officially March 3, will be directed by Dr. Marion Castleberry, one of the country’s foremost experts on the 90-year-old playwright’s work.
The cast consists of Lynn Cohen, Stan Denman, Frank Girardeau, Margot White, Carol Goodheart, Rochelle Oliver, Alice McLane, Jamie Bennett, Matthew Conlon, and Quincy Confoy. The creative team includes Maruti Evans (sets), Maggie Lee-Burdorff (costumes), Jason Jeunette (lighting), and Graham Johnson (sound).
The Traveling Lady concerns a young mother who begins a new life in a small Texas town. When she is deserted by her husband after he is released from prison, she is taken in by the locals, but complications ensue when the husband returns. The show had a brief Broadway run in 1954, with Kim Stanley and Jack Lord in the cast.
Foote is the author of more than 20 plays, including The Young Man From Atlanta, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize, and The Trip to Bountiful, which is now in revival at the Signature Theatre Company. He is also the winner of two Academy Awards for To Kill a Mockingbird and Tender Mercies.
