`Rainmaker' makes a splash at Foothills.

Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA) | February 10, 2009 | Copyright

Byline: Jan Gottesman

COLUMN: Theater Review

WORCESTER - We all need to believe in something; we especially need to believe in ourselves.

That is the major message behind "The Rainmaker," the newest show at Worcester Foothills Theater, which runs through March 1.

I never saw the 1956 movie with Burt Lancaster and Katharine Hepburn. This show is set in the 1950s, during a drought in a Western farm region. Living in this area is the Curry family of ranchers, H.C. (played in the Foothills' production by Barry Press), his two sons Noah (Dan ...

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