Hallie Foote's guest appearances

Hallie Foote

ATW - Downstage Center

Keith Price's Curtain Call

CUNY TV's Theater Talk

Stephen Adly Guirgis

Todd Haimes

Janet McTeer

Charles Busch

Joel Grey

Leigh Silverman

Marian Seldes

Alan Menken

Daphne Rubin-Vega

Paul Rudnick

Michael Mayer

Doug Hughes

Kenny Leon

John Lithgow

David Cromer

OwlTail

Andrew Leynse

Downstage Center goes to Texas. Listen as Primary Stages Artistic Director Andrew Leynse talks with actress Hallie Foote about her father Horton's work, world, and new Primary Stages production "Harrison, TX,"  three plays by Horton Foote. In addition to discussing the current production directed by Pam McKinnon, Ms. Foote discusses acting, the family history, and her father's legacy.

Hallie Foote and Andrew Leynse (#346) - August, 2012

Hallie Foote, perhaps the leading interpreter of the works of her father, the late Horton Foote, talks about her past year of work on "The Orphans' Home Cycle", the epic compilation of nine of her father's plays into a theatrical triptych spanning nine hours of performance. She discusses the process of condensing the plays to in order to find their central storyline; how far work had progressed before her father's passing in early 2009; how the plays have created their own repertory company, with actors even playing different roles in different plays in a single evening; and how it feels to now be playing a character based upon her great-grandmother, having originated the role based on her grandmother in the premieres (and films) of the original plays. She also discusses how she finally came around to a career in theatre after first pursuing music; why she has spent most of her professional life performing in her father's plays; what it has been like to also appear in plays by her sister, Daisy, once under the director of her father, in addition to often appearing with her husband (including playing his aunt in "Dividing The Estate"); the importance of her father's artistic homes at Signature Theatre and Hartford Stage, and their directors James Houghton and Michael Wilson; and her plans for her acting career now that she is also the literary executor of her father's more than 60 plays. Original air date - April 7, 2010.

Hallie Foote (#263) - April, 2010

Horton Foote

Elizabeth Ashley

A conversation about “Dividing The Estate,” with its playwright Horton Foote and two of its stars, Elizabeth Ashley and Hallie Foote.

Horton Foote, Elizabeth Ashley and Hallie Foote