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THE ROADS TO PRIMARY STAGES<br />
Welcome to the first production of Primary Stages 32nd Season, our first full season at the<br />
Cherry Lane Theatre. Since 1984, Primary Stages has followed our own roads to become<br />
one of the most recognized homes for American playwrights as we have proudly pursued<br />
our mission of inspiring, supporting, and sharing the art of playwriting.<br />
With this production of The Roads to Home we celebrate Horton Foote’s centennial. Horton<br />
was a major American dramatist and Primary Stages had the great fortune of working<br />
directly with him on his plays Dividing the Estate (which we moved with Lincoln Center<br />
Theatre to Broadway) and The Day Emily Married. Horton also directed When They Speak<br />
of Rita by Daisy Foote for us and we produced his Harrison, TX, directed by Pam McKinnon,<br />
in 2012.<br />
Horton was instrumental in fostering a sense home at Primary. He created work that<br />
chronicled the American home, shared his actual family with us, and employed his<br />
infectious charm and generosity wherever he went. When he was with us, he attended<br />
almost every performance, always sitting in the same seat. At intermission, audience<br />
members would line up to share a word with him, often extending the break, much to the<br />
chagrin of our house manager, but to the delight of Horton and everyone else in the room.<br />
Although Horton is no longer with us, the feeling of home he created lives on, through<br />
his plays, his family, and of course you, the audiences who so love and support his<br />
work. Horton’s plays are the gold standard of what American playwriting can be and we<br />
are honored to be an enduring home for Horton’s plays, family, and legacy. As Horton’s<br />
characters discover, home can be a place, a memory, a longing, a person, a family, or<br />
even an idea. In the theater, we are lucky. We get to create homes of people, of stories,<br />
and of places we love on stage night after night, season after season. We thank you,<br />
our adventuresome audience, for sharing our enthusiasm for new American plays and<br />
playwrights and for being part of the Primary family.<br />
Welcome to The Roads to Home. Welcome home to Primary Stages.<br />
Casey Childs<br />
Executive Producer<br />
Andrew Leynse<br />
Artistic Director<br />
Shane D. Hudson<br />
Executive Director
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