More than a legend in American theater and arts, Horton Foote was family to anyone who ... many of them based on his family’s history in Wharton in the early 20th century. One can only marvel ...

Today, we look at Horton ... Foote was born in Wharton (current population: around 8,600), about 60 miles southwest of Houston, in 1916. But he got out into the world early in life, to study ...

Playwright and screenwriter Horton Foote ... for September at the nonprofit theater, Marte said. Mr. Foote left the cotton fields of his native Wharton, Texas, as a teenager, dreaming of becoming ...

The Signature Theater’s compassionate ... Trip to Bountiful,” Cicely Tyson visited Wharton, Tex., and the family home of the playwright Horton Foote. “Him,” the playwright Daisy Foote ...

He will be so sorely missed, but he leaves behind a vast legacy of plays that will inspire and enthrall future generations of theater audiences and artists.” “Horton Foote was an American ...

AR: That is such a Horton story because he wasn’t out there to be congratulated, he was just curious if anyone knew. TM: So much of the film takes place in Wharton, in the home where Foote grew up.

and Wharton, Texas. Foote ... that "Horton was the great American voice." He added, "His work was native to his own region, but it was also universal." Frank Rich, who as chief theater critic ...

The great Horton Foote, the Wharton native responsible for such works as the To Kill a Mockingbird screenplay (for which he won an Oscar), The Trip to Bountiful (filmed in Dallas) and Tender ...

NEW YORK-- Playwright and screenwriter Horton Foote ... for next September at the nonprofit theater, Marte said. Foote left the cotton fields of his native Wharton, Texas, as a teenager, dreaming ...