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Reviews are now in for Part 3 of Horton Foote's The Orphans' Home Cycle!
From David Rooney's Variety review:
The condensed, three-part adaptation of the nine plays in "The Orphans' Home Cycle" is now running in rep, playing its first single-day New York marathon Feb. 6. So it's the perfect time to step back and appreciate the emotional expansiveness and melancholy beauty of this heartfelt epic, which intricately layers novelistic detail onto a deeply personal elegy for a time, a place and a people. The wry humor and sharp-eyed observations are a given with Horton Foote, as is the exquisite balance of compassion with unvarnished assessment. But it's the humility and unfailing gentleness of the playwright's voice that make the cumulative rewards of this theatrical experience so substantial. [read the full review online]
From Terry Teachout's review in The Wall Street Journal:
Now that i've seen all three installments of "The Orphans' Home Cycle," Horton Foote's dramatic portrait of a small-town Texas family, I can say with certainty what I suspected from the outset: Foote, who died last March, left behind a masterpiece, one that will rank high among the signal achievements of American theater in the 20th century. We owe it to Michael Wilson, the director of this joint production of New York's Signature Theatre Company and Mr. Wilson's own Hartford Stage, that the nine plays on which "The Orphans' Home Cycle" is based, which were originally written between 1974 and 1997, are being presented as a unit at last—and that they are being performed with such sympathy and sensitivity as to make their virtues instantly manifest. [read the full review online]