Horton Foote, the Texas-born playwright who died in 2009, at the age of 92, was often called "the Chekhov of the American South." His melodrama-farce, "The Old Friends," now at Raven Theatre was in the works from the mid 1960s on, but was never produced in the playwright's lifetime. There might well be a reason for that. The post ‘The Old Friends’ finds Horton Foote in ‘Dallas’ mode appeared …
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 04:32PM on February 3, 2016