Broadway Marquees to be Dimmed in Memory of Horton Foote

Broadway marquees will be dimmed on February 5 to mourn the passing of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Horton Foote. The lights will dim for one minute at exactly 8:00pm in tribute to Foote, who was represented on Broadway earlier this season with Dividing the Estate.

“Horton Foote was a prolific contributor to Broadway and we are deeply saddened by the loss of this great artist,” Charlotte St. Martin, executive director of the Broadway League, said in a statement. “Our thoughts are with his family.”

George Forbes, President of the Off-Broadway League, said, “Foote’s talents and remarkable body of work makes him a mainstay of off-Broadway and theatre in general; his voice will be sorely missed.”

Foote's Broadway plays include Only the Heart, Six O'Clock Theatre, The Chase, Two's Company, The Trip to Bountiful, The Traveling Lady, The Young Man From Atlanta for which he won the Pulitzer Prize and Dividing the Estate. For more on Horton Foote's life and career, click here