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Dividing the Estate
 

Dividing the Estate

Running Time

2 hours 10 minutes

Nominated for two 2009 Tony Awards, Dividing the Estate, a human comedy about a family that must confront its past as it prepares for its future, opened to critical acclaim in fall 2007 at Primary Stages. The Lincoln Center Theater production featured a cast of 13 headed by Elizabeth Ashley, Arthur French, Hallie Foote, Penny Fuller and Gerald McRaney with Devon Abner, James DeMarse, Pat Bowie, Virginia Kull, Maggie Lacey, Nicole Lowrance, Jenny Dare Paulin and Keiana Richàrd.

Backstage during a five-show weekend...

The late playwright Horton Foote returned to Lincoln Center Theater where his play The Carpetbagger's Children was presented at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater. His many plays include The Day Emily Married, The Roads to Home, The Young Man From Atlanta, The Trip to Bountiful, Lily Dale, The Widow Claire and Laura Dennis. His honors include the Pulitzer Prize for The Young Man From Atlanta and two Academy Awards for his screenplays for To Kill A Mockingbird and Tender Mercies.

Director Michael Wilson staged Horton Foote's The Carpetbagger's Children at Lincoln Center Theater as well as the playwright's The Day Emily Married at Primary Stages. He has been the Artistic Director of the Hartford Stage for the past 10 years.

Dividing the Estate's accolades include winning the 2008 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play, and Horton Foote's 2008 Obie Award for Playwriting.

Lincoln Center Theater produced Dividing the Estate by arrangement with Primary Stages.

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