New YorkSometimes—fairly often, truth to tell—it takes more than one try for a playwright to get a show up and running. The first version of Horton Foote’s “The Young Man From Atlanta,” even though it won him the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for drama, wasn’t quite what it needed to be. Not until two years later, by which time it had been rewritten and recast, did “The Young Man From Atlanta” finally move from off-Broadway to Broadway. Even then, it failed to eke out a long run: Foote’s studies of Southern family life never have...

Source: Wall Street Journal November 27, 2019 19:30 UTC