The Roads To Home NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (112)
See it if You like Foote as well as Interesting staging and spot-on performances by the entire cast but especially Harriet Harris and Hallie Foote.
Don't see it if You are expecting a silly, laugh out loud comedy.
See it if you'd like a charming, period piece
Don't see it if you won't enjoy a play that's a bit sad in content
See it if You love Horton Foote, great acting and period pieces. Cherry lane theatre is a great small theatre.
Don't see it if You want a fast pace lively show. This can be slow at times. southern accents can get a little tedious at times. no refreshments at theatre
See it if you love Horton Foote and you have never seen this early play, acted with enormous skill by a cast including Hallie Foote and Harriet Harris
Don't see it if you like plays to be relentlessly full of dramatic events and are unable to appreciate the quiet revelation of lives as they happen.
See it if You like Horton Foote plays and actress daughter. She is excellent. Funny and heartfelt. Three intertwined plays. Two are better than last.
Don't see it if You are bored by Foote characters from Texas in past times. About life, relationships, divorce and coping. Nothing happens but lots happens. Read more
See it if for fine cast, especially Harriet Harris & fascinating Hallie Foote whose character may keep you company well after the performance ends
Don't see it if you want action &resolutions; you may find yourself unexpectedly haunted by heartbreak, dislocation, disorientation lurking beneath chatter
See it if Horton Foote plays with Hallie Foote in it are rare gems. Harriet Harris also shines in this very sad play. Loved the southern Texas themes.
Don't see it if you don't want to think and feel things.
See it if Insightful and sensitive play, fine acting especially substitute Mary Bacon. First act a bit too long but touching and both excellent.
Don't see it if If you are not interested in the probing of real human emotions.
Critic Reviews (21)
"This play–essentially three interconnected one acts–isn’t exactly quintessential Foote. The comedy is not just more copious, but broader than usual, and the tragedy a little deeper. It’s a testament to director Michael Wilson (a specialist in Foote’s work) and the excellent ensemble he has assembled that this piece not just coheres, but tickles the funny bone and touches the heart...While hardly in the same league as Foote’s masterworks, it’s definitely a journey worth taking."
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"A poem for all of us to keep in our pockets and carry with us…Hallie Foote and Harriet Harris are a perfect pitch together. Rebecca Brooksher’s portrayal of Annie is a gentle portrait of a young woman’s inability to hang on to sanity…The play is all about those remembrances. The past occupying each of the characters' lives much more than the present. Home is where they came from, not where they are."
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"These three stories relate to each other in powerful yet simple ways, with a thoughtfulness that is only amplified by the excellence of the performances. Directed by Michael Wilson, the actors’ moving performances make the play’s simple focus all the richer...Though small-town gossip can often come across as trivial, the show's domestic focus, captured perfectly in the beautiful set design, still feels very high-stakes as the two women struggle to keep their lives in order."
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"Under Michael Wilson’s discerning direction, Hallie Foote and Harriet Harris are magnificent playing off one another’s enormous talents...The third short play (Act Two) is disappointing after the high energy and delicious plots driven by the characters and conflicts in the first two short plays...'The Roads to Home' challenges the conventional wisdom surrounding the concept of home and raises enduring questions about the roads that lead us there."
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“Hallie Foote’s sensitive, liltingly accented Mabel is absolutely lovely; you can practically touch the humanity of her concern for the neurotic Annie. Harriet Harris is perfectly cast as Vonnie, the aging belle whose marriage is cracking...Brooksher’s Annie is a moving study in psychological distress, especially luminous in act two...Home may be where the heart is, but the effort to recapture it, if only in memory, is nothing short of heartbreaking in ‘The Roads to Home.’”
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"Really three short plays woven together, we get glimpses of moments in these characters' lives, but not a complete play...Hallie Foote is wonderful. It’s almost as if she knew exactly what her father wanted and seamlessly brings it to life...Directed by Michael Wilson, 'The Roads to Home' becomes a foretelling into what life was like and how easy it can all fall apart. Though the play does not quite gel, it’s as if moments are what makes a life."
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"It’s naturalism at its finest…Yet nothing truly happens. And that’s ok. That’s what this play is. An examination. To alleviate monotony, Wilson heightened the comedy, as best he could...The pacing left much to be desired though it helped tap into the honesty of Foote’s characters…Its perception is bound to be split. To some, it will be charming and resonate. To others, it will feel slow and dated. And that’s just how it is. ‘The Roads to Home’ is what it is."
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"Wilson, who has staged numerous Foote plays, handles this one with ease, adding in exactly enough bright color to cover the basic darkness. Abner and Hallie Foote fill their roles appealingly, while Harris demonstrates, triumphantly, that she can thrive as convincingly in naturalism as in the broader comedy of Broadway musicals...The performers' vivacity reinforces the paradox: Spacious, sunshiny, and seemingly ordinary, Foote's Texas is as spiritually dark as any Beckettian landscape."
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