Horton Foote's long vision

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: October 22, 1995| Author: | Copyright information

Upstairs, just above the shop where the sets for his new play are being painted, playwright Horton Foote is listening to his words echo back to him. The smell of latex wafts up the stairway at the Huntington Theatre Company as the company of actors rehearses "The Young Man From Atlanta" -- a play that won this year's Pulitzer Prize for the 79-year-old Foote.

The play, which opened last night in preview and runs until Nov. 19, is set in Houston in the '50s. The Kidder family is undergoing economic and emotional turmoil that's as wide as the Lone Star State and as deep as its deepest oil well. ...

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