Photo Flash: First Look at Raven Theatre Company's DIVIDING THE ESTATE
Dividing the Estate, a 2008-09 Tony Award nominee for Best Original Play and Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role (Hallie Foote), can finally be seen in Chicago in Raven Theatre's production, which began preview performances on Tuesday, January 27. This comedy-drama by the Pulitzer Prize and two-time Academy Award winner Horton Foote focuses on the feuds and disputes among members of a wealthy Texas family whose fortunes have declined. Dividing the Estate was Foote's last new play to be presented on Broadway. Raven Theatre, who produced Foote's The Trip to Bountiful in 2013, is the first professional company to bring this acclaimed script to a Chicago stage. Raven associate artistic director Cody Estle (Raven's Brighton Beach Memoirs and Vieux Carré, The Artistic Home's Watch on the Rhineand Mary-Arrchie's Uncle Bob) directs.
The cast includes marssie Mencotti, Ron Wells, JoAnn Montemurro, Millie Spencer-Hurley, Jon Steinhagen, Tim Martin, Eliza Stoughton, Kathyrn Acosta, Angela Sandall, J.J. McCormick, Shariba Rivers, BrittneyLove Smith and Hillary Horvath. The design team includes Jeffrey D. Kmiec (set designer), Kurt Ottinger (lighting designer), Kate Murphy (costume designer) Christopher M. LaPorte (sound designer) and Julia Carusillo (properties design). Also on the production team are Tara Malpass (Stage Manager), Jacqueline Wills (assistant director), Jenna Meyers (assistant stage manager) and Debrorah Blumenthal (dramaturg). Previews are January 27 - February 1, 2015, with the press opening Monday, February 2, 2015. The regular run will be February 5 - March 28, 2015. Tickets are on sale now at www.raventheatre.com or by calling 773-338-2177.Photos by Dean La Prairie
Jon Steinhagen, Millie Hurley-Spencer
Tim Martin, J. J. McCormick, Millie Hurley-Spencer
J.J. McCormick, marssie Mencotti
Millie Hurley-Spencer
Angela Sandall, BrittneyLove Smith, Shariba Rivers
Ron Wells, JoAnn Montemurro, Jon Steinhagen, Millie Hurley-Spencer, marssie Mencotti, Tim Martin, J.J. McCormick, Eliza Stought
Angela Sandall, Kathryn Acosta, Millie Hurley-Spencer, JoAnn Montemurro, marssie Mencotti
Jon Steinhagen, Angela Sandall, JoAnn Montemurro, Millie Hurley-Spencer, Tim Martin, Eliza Stoughton
Angela Sandall, Kathryn Acosta
Eliza Stoughton, Jon Steinhagen, Tim Martin, marssie Mencotti, Millie Hurley-Spencer, JoAnn Montemurro
Millie Hurley-Spencer, JoAnn Montemurro, marssie Mencotti
Millie Hurley-Spencer, Tim Martin, JoAnn Montemurro, Jon Steinhagen, Eliza Stoughton
Shariba Rivers, Tim Martin (upper), J.J. McCormick (lower), BrittneyLove Smith, Eliza Stoughton
marssie Mencotti
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