Best Foote forward: Alley takes playwright's work to UH digs
The Alley Theatre begins its year away from home next week. Yet the company's Houston premiere of "The Old Friends," opening Wednesday at the University of Houston's Wortham Theatre, has all the earmarks of a homecoming. The company is returning to the work of Horton Foote, the Texas playwright revered for his wise, compassionate studies of small-town life - many of them set in "Harrison," the fictionalized version …