Tony Nominee Hallie Foote to Star in Horton Foote's Cycle

Hallie Foote will follow her Tony-nominated turn in Dividing the Estate by starring in another work by her late father, Horton Foote. She will headline the three-part, nine-play Orphans’ Home Cycle, a co-production of Connecticut’s Hartford Stage and New York City’s Signature Theater Company.

Set at the start of the 20th century, The Orphans Home Cycle centers on the coming-of-age of Horace Robedaux, a character based on the playwright’s father. Part I includes the plays Roots in a Parched Ground, Convicts and Lily Dale; Part II spans The Widow Clare, Courtship and Valentine’s Day; Part III collects 1918, Cousins and The Death of Papa.

Cycle—helmed by Hartford Stage artistic director Michael Wilson Dividing the Estate—runs at Hartford September 3-October 24, then at the Signature November 5-March 6, 2010. Each part will be staged individually and in repertory; one-day marathons will also be offered.

Foote has frequently appeared in her father’s plays; at the Signature’s 1995 Foote season, she starred in Talking Pictures, Night Seasons and Laura Dennis. She has also appeared off-Broadway in The Widow Claire, When They Speak of Rita, The Last of the Thorntons, The Carpetbagger’s Children, The Day Emily Married, The Trip to Bountiful and Dividing the Estate. She’s currently reprising her Tony-nominated performance as petulant spendthrift Mary Jo in Estate at Hartford Stage alongside other original cast members including Devon Abner, Penny Fuller, Maggie Lacey and Gerald McRaney.