WaterTower Theatre Presents THE TRAVELING LADY, 4/1-5/1

WaterTower Theatre's entry in the city-wide Horton Foote Festival, THE TRAVELING LADY, will be presented April 1 - May 1, 2011. Directed by Dr. Marion Castleberry, tickets are $22 - $40 and can be purchased a www.watertowertheatre.org

WaterTower Theatre is one of the leading regional theatres in North Dallas and Texas. It is consistently recognized for its artistic excellence by the Dallas Theatre League, Dallas/Fort Worth Theatre Critics Forum, The Dallas Morning News, The Dallas Observer, D Magazine and The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, among others. WaterTower Theatre has a subscription base of more than 2,100 subscribers and serves an audience of over 35,000 patrons annually.

WaterTower Theatre gratefully acknowledges the support of The Town of Addison, TACA, Texas Commission on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. WaterTower Theatre is supported, in part, through the generosity of Ackley Financial Group, Inc., Atmos Energy, AT&T Yellow Pages, Town North Bank, The Embrey Family Foundation, First Community Bank, Haynes and Boone, LLP, Liberty Capital Bank, Rainmaker Advertising and The Shubert Foundation.

Horton Foote was a Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist and Oscar-winning screenwriter. Born on March 14, 1916, in Wharton, Texas, Foote died March 4, 2009 - just 10 days shy of his 93rd birthday. Foote, known as the "American Chekhov," was one of the founders of the American Actors Company. While he took on some minor stage roles, Foote was best known for his writing. He won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, and an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for Tender Mercies. Other film credits include Tomorrow, The Trip to Bountiful, Baby the Rain Must Fall (adapted from The Traveling Lady) and Of Mice and Men. His play The Young Man from Atlanta was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Included in his numerous playwriting credits are Tomorrow, The Orphans' Home Cycle, and The Chase.
In addition to his Pulitzer Prize and two Oscars, Foote was honored with the William Inge Award for Lifetime Achievement in the American Theatre in 1989, a Gold Medal for Drama from the Academy of Arts and Letters in 1998, the Writer's Guild of America's Lifetime Achievement award in 1999, and the PEN American Center's Master American Dramatist Award in 2000.