“Dividing the Estate” gets rave review

Earlier on this blog, I discussed the wills & estate themed Broadway play entitled Dividing the Estate.

It seems that this play is doing very well as evidenced by a recent review by Terry Teachout which appeared in the November 21, 2008 issue of The Wall Street Journal.

Here are some excerpts from the review:

Virtue has been rewarded: Horton Foote’s “Dividing the Estate,” which had an extravagantly well-received run Off Broadway last fall, has now transferred to Broadway with its original 13-person cast intact. It’s a bitingly macabre comedy about a family of Texans who’ve been sponging off the money of their mother (Elizabeth Ashley) for so long that they’ve forgotten how to live their own lives. * * *

[T]his production, directed by Michael Wilson, is a stunner, a gorgeous piece of ensemble theater in which nobody puts a foot wrong. I wrote in this space a year ago that the members of the cast “are all so believable that the word ‘acting’ fails to do justice to the collective impression of truthfulness that they make.” That still goes.

Mr. Foote is one of America’s greatest playwrights, past or present, but this is only the second of his 60-odd plays to be performed on Broadway since 1954. Go see “Dividing the Estate” and find out what we’ve been missing.

Special thanks to Joel Dobris (Professor of Law, UC Davis School of Law) for bringing this review to my attention.