Horton, Hallie and Daisy Foote FAMILY TIES.

Something's a-Foote at New York's Primary Stages

Theatrical families can be murder. Think of the O'Neills. The Barrymores. The Redgraves. Think of the pride. The passion. The dysfunction. Now, think of the Foote family--and put all those other nasty thoughts out of your head.

Horton Foote, whose haunting stage, film and television plays about the strained but enduring values of small-town America have won him the Pulitzer Prize (for The Young Man from Atlanta), two Academy Awards (for To Kill a Mockingbird and Tender Mercies) and a niche in the Theater Hall of Fame, has ...

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