Performed in the small, intimate theater of the Genesis Creative Collective, Horton Foote’s “The Trip to Bountiful” opens to a backdrop that’s hardly minimalistic. Depicting a three-bedroom Houston ...

City Theatre presents Horton Foote's classic play, The Trip to Bountiful, running from February 20 to March 8, 2026. Directed by Tracy Arnold, the production features Judith Laird as Mrs. Carrie Watts ...

In a mid-1980s interview, playwright Horton Foote described his play “The Trip to Bountiful” as being about humans’ capacity to survive and the grace they bring to difficult life circumstances. That’s ...

The excitement was palpable outside of the Ahmanson Theater on opening night of The Trip to Bountiful starring Blair Underwood, Vanessa Williams, and Cecily Tyson in her Tony Award winning turn as Mrs ...

Carrie Watts dreams of escape from the bustling city and of a return to simpler times in her beloved Bountiful, Texas. She sets out on a risky journey to her beloved hometown, with her family in hot ...

Thirty-five years later, Lamb’s Players Theatre’s Robert Smyth and Deborah Gilmour Smyth are taking another trip to Bountiful. Horton Foote’s 1953 play about an elderly woman fleeing her painful ...

The three-act drama, a tale of a woman's desperate attempt to return home - and her meddling daughter's attempts to prevent her "escapes" - includes Suzy Hunt as Carrie Watts, the elderly mother of ...