Tickets & Season
Horton Foote Festival
Join us as we celebrate a living legend and unsung hero of the American theater...the esteemed, the inimitable Horton Foote. This festival includes Foote's beloved plays, plus films and other programs that highlight the breadth and depth of his work.
The Trip to Bountiful
Directed by Harris Yulin
Extended by popular demand through April 13
In the Albert
Carrie Watts returns to her childhood home in the small town of Bountiful, Texas, which she left three decades ago. She sets out to fulfill her dream, with results that are both heartbreaking and brilliantly life-affirming. Actor/director Harris Yulin recreates his off-Broadway triumph, featuring a luminous performance by Obie Award-winner Lois Smith.
Festival Special Events
Anatomy of a Trial: To Kill a Mockingbird, The Scottsboro Boys and the Jena 6
Monday, March 31 | 7pm
$5 for General Public; FREE for Subscribers and Donors
Albert Theatre
To Kill a Mockingbird is unquestionably one of the landmark films of the 20th century and is Foote's best-known screenplay. Foote's adaptation of Harper Lee's classic novel about a small-town lawyer who defends a black man accused of rape won him an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. The film won two additional Oscars for art direction and for Gregory Peck's iconic performance as Atticus Finch.
Using excerpts from the film, a distinguished panel of historians and social activists discuss the political landscape of other noteworthy trials, including the Scottsboro Boys and the recent prosecution of the Jena 6.
The panel includes Joanne Aldridge, a Foote scholar and writer; Joel Daly, former anchorman, actor and lawyer; Sheldon Nahmod, legal scholar and professor of law; and Mia Henry, executive director of Chicago Freedom School.
Reservations for all festival special events can be made by calling Goodman Theatre Box Office at 312.443.3800.