Hallie Foote to Speak About Father's Legacy, DIVIDING THE ESTATE and More at the Raven, 1/14

Hallie Foote, an actress best known for playing some of her father's most memorable characters both on and off Broadway and in feature films, will visit Raven Theatre on Wednesday, January 14, to discuss the legacy of her father, the playwright Horton Foote, author of Raven's upcoming Chicago premiere of Dividing the Estate, as well as The Trip to Bountiful, The Young Man from Atlanta and the Academy Award-winning screenplays for Tender Mercies and To Kill a Mockingbird.

Hallie's roles in her father's plays have included award-winning turns in The Trip to Bountiful and The Roads to Home and a Tony Award nomination for Dividing the Estate. The many other plays by Horton Foote in which she has acted include The Old Friends, The Orphans' Home Cycle, Harrison, TX, The Day Emily Married, The Last of the Thorntons and The Carpetbagger's Children. She also played Elizabeth Vaughn Robideaux, the role she originated on stage, in the film versions of her father's plays Courtship, Valentine's Day and 1918.

The conversation will be led by Chris Jones, the Chief Theatre Critic of the Chicago Tribune. The discussion will begin at 7:30 and is open to the public. The program will also include a reading by Raven ensemble members and other Chicago actors, directed by Producing Artistic Director Michael Menendian, of a short excerpt from Foote's play The Old Friends (seen in New York in fall 2013 in a production by the Signature Theatre featuring Betty Buckley and Hallie Foote).

Admission price is $10 (free to Raven subscribers and industry members, but reservations are required. Subscribers please note - this event will be in lieu of the Subscriber Rehearsal for this show). Tickets may be ordered online at www.raventheatre.com or by phone at 773-338-2177.

And that's just the first in a series of events at Raven exploring the work of Horton Foote...

Dividing the Estate
By Horton Foote
Chicago Premiere
Directed by Cody Estle
January 27 - March 28, 2015

Matriarch Stella Gordon is determined not to divide her 100-year-old Texas estate, despite her family's declining wealth and the looming financial crisis. But her three children have another plan. Old resentments and sibling rivalries surface as the members of this hilariously dysfunctional family go head to head to see who might claim the biggest piece of the pie in DIVIDING THE ESTATE. Buy tickets here or call 773-338-2177.

Free Screening of The Trip to Bountiful
featuring the Emmy Award-winning performance of Cicely Tyson
Introduction by Professor Anna Everett of the University of California at Santa Barbara
Sunday, February 15, 2015, 7 PM

The 2014 Lifetime feature film, which reunited Tyson with her co-star Vanessa Williams and director Michael Wilson of The Trip to Bountiful's 2013 Broadway revival, will be screened following a live introduction, via Skype, by Professor Everett.

Free reading of Foote's Courtship and Valentine's Day
Directed by Cody Estle
Tuesday, March 24, 7:30 PM

Courtship and Valentine's Day are the fifth and sixth plays of The Orphans' Home Cycle - a series of nine plays based on the life of Horton Foote's father between the years 1902 and 1928. They concern the courtship and the first year of marriage of Horace and Elizabeth Robedaux, the characters based on Foote's parents.

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