It doesn't take a refined intellect to separate the bad characters from the good in Lillian Hellman's "The Little Foxes." The bad tend to be scheming, grasping and spiteful, and maybe mean t…
The next time anyone challenges the need to have nonprofit Broadway houses alongside the commercial theaters, I'm going to shout out, "The Little Foxes."
It wasn’t trick casting on the part of director Daniel Sullivan to have Laura Linney and Cynthia Nixon alternate lead roles in “The Little Foxes,” Lillian Hellman’…
In any theatrical season, a revival of Lillian Hellman's 1939 family drama, "The Little Foxes," would be welcome. Hellman's play is a remarkably well-structured work, full of complex (if pri…
Lillian Hellman's breakneck melodrama The Little Foxes was written in 1939 on the Depression plan. It has one set, no more characters than it can use, and just enough plot to make it go. Yet…
by Michael Bracken A family that preys together…. never stops preying. At least not if the family in question is the clawingly, cloyingly, claustrophobically close-kni…
Laura Linney and Cynthia Nixon alternate in the lead female roles in Lillian Hellman's 1939 drama 'The Little Foxes,' about rapacious ambition in a Southern clan that has clawed its way into…
The nasty, tasty snakepit that is Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes has been irresistible to actors and audiences since Tallulah Bankhead chewed the Southern scenery in the play’…
Certain distances may seem large, but can in fact be very small: between wealth and poverty, for example, or between importance and meaninglessness, or between being somebody and being nobod…
The new revival of Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes, starring Tony nominee Laura Linney and Tony winner Cynthia Nixon, opens April 19 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on Broadway. T…
