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Beth Henley’s warm-hearted and irreverent play depicts the plight of three young Mississippi sisters gathered in their hometown to await news of their hospitalized grandfather. With troubles in life and with the law, the Magrath sisters navigate their pasts to seize the future, in an imaginative and touching story that won the Pulitzer Prize and New York Drama Critics Circle Award.More quotes »
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Theater review: Three sisters work to come to terms with their betrayals in the hysterical Crime of the Heart
as sisters to make peace with their crimes of heart in a play by the same name, now playing at Mesquite Arts Center. MESQUITE Beth Henley, writer of Crimes of the Heart, writes primarily about women’s issues and family in the southern U.S. Her most famous from Pegasus News Read more »
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REVIEW: 'Abundance' a saga of women in Old West
Henley’s play “Abundance” opens with the ominous chanting of Indians, a foreshadowing of what is to come. The time is the 1860s and the place is the Dakota Territory and two young women have just met at a remote outpost and discover they have much in common. from The Middletown Press Read more »
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The Frontier Is a Hard Place for Heroines
the play’s most peculiar line, which is both a warning and revelation: “Better watch out. Bullets make me smile.” “Abundance,” by Beth Henley, is at Hartford Stage, 50 Church Street, through April 28. Information: (860) 527-5151 or hartfordstage.org . from The New York Times Read more »
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Playwright Beth Henley To Speak At Hartford Stage
Henley, a Mississippi native, was also nominated for a 1987Oscar for her screenplay adaptation of "Crimes of the Heart." Henley's other screenplays include "Miss Firecracker Contest," "Nobody's Fool" and the cult favorite "True Stories," a collaboration with from Hartford Courant Read more »
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‘Murder In The First’ & ‘Surgeon General’ Add To Casts, ‘Lucky 7′ Recasts Actor
Rous (Beth Henley’s play The Jacksonian) has joined the cast of Murder In The First, TNT’s drama drama pilot co-created by Bochco and Eric Lodal. It is a murder mystery set in contemporary San Francisco that centers on two SFPD homicide detectives, Terry Seagrave from Deadline Hollywood Daily Read more »
